An angry metro resident bit off a dog´s ear in the wee-wee hours of the new millennium, saying that he was prevented from enjoying his sleep by its (the dog´s) all night long howling.
The Golden Retriever told police that he had this sudden urge to howl at the brightest moon in 133 years when an irate human emerged out of the .darkness and, without provocation, started shouting abuses at him.
"The moon just kept getting brighter, and I couldn´t control myself anymore," the dog told this reporter on condition of anonymity. The two-legged naked ape then came out and allegedly wrestled the Retriever to the ground, biting off a postage stamp size chunk off his right ear in the process.
In the emergency room of a local vet, the heavily bandaged dog said: "I have heard dogs biting men, but not of men biting dogs. There should be a law against it."