Posted on 08/08/2007 1:35:34 PM PDT by Churchill
SLOCUM — A 4-year-old Slocum girl and her mother were being treated for serious injuries at a Tyler hospital late Tuesday night after both were apparently “mauled” by a neighbor’s pit bull.
The attack occurred sometime between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday outside a residence in the Slocum area, according to Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor.
Both the mother — believed to perhaps be in her 20s — and her child were lifeflighted from the scene by separate helicopters to a Tyler hospital, according to the sheriff.
The girl’s injuries were believed to be more serious, according to Taylor.
“The major injury, I understand, on the little girl was on her shoulder,” Taylor said. “She also had some cuts on her face.”
The sheriff said the bites on the girl’s shoulder were “pretty deep.”
Initially, Taylor said Tyler physicians believed the girl might have to be transferred to a Dallas hospital, but ultimately decided to treat the girl there.
“They think they can take care of her in Tyler,” Taylor said.
After being apprised of the situation, the girl’s mother rushed to her aid and was then attacked by the pit bull, according to the sheriff.
The pit bull was subsequently shot and killed, but authorities were uncertain who shot the animal as of late Tuesday night.
Taylor said the pit bull was reportedly chained up at the time of the attacks.
For any out there who are wondering, this is east Texas.
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So what else would you call it when an animal chews and claws something up? Of course it's mauled. No need to use parenthesis as if it wasn't really a mauling, but someone was just exaggerating.
Well, your use of parentheses bothers me too! Seriously, that is the original and not my edit. Thanks for your concern.
Duh! Quotation marks.
I didn’t think that you edited it.
I just see people misuse quotation marks so much, and putting the term mauled in quotation marks makes it sound like the author was thinking that the term was sensationalism on the part of the people attacked. *apparently “mauled”* makes it sound like the author was sighing and thinking these people were overreacting to the serious injuries they received, as if they were just making them up, and they weren’t real injuries.
I would guess mauled was a pretty accurate description from the sounds of their injuries. I don’t know what other term one would use to describe the injuries inflicted by an animal.
Just venting. Nothing personal.
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