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WEST HAVEN, Conn. -- A 20-month-old southern Connecticut girl was mauled to death after being attacked by as many as three pit bulls. The child was visiting her aunt's apartment in West Haven when the attack occurred Friday, authorities told WVIT-TV. She was pronounced dead at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

BRANCHVILLE, N.J. – Two juveniles sustained minor injuries after a black bear attacked their campsite in northwestern New Jersey Wednesday.

A 6-month-old boy who was visiting with relatives in Chesterfield County died Wednesday afternoon after being bit by the family's longtime pet dog. Police and paramedics were called about 1:40 p.m. to a home in the 4600 block of Overridge Drive for a report of an infant male being bitten by a dog, police said. The child, who police said is related to the dog's owner, was taken to VCU Medical Center in Richmond, where he died. The dog, a Dogo Argentino, was signed over to Chesterfield Animal Control. Lt. Randy Horowitz said the animal had no history of being...

MECCA -- A 3-year-old boy is in the hospital after being bitten by a dog. It happened at about 9:35 a.m. in Mecca on the 70000 block of Conchella Dr. video3-Year-Old Hospitalized After Dog Attack Fire crews say the toddler has multiple dog bites, including one on the neck.... "I think they [the victim's family] knew it was aggressive,” said Jocelyn Aldana, a neighbor who called 911. “Maybe they should have done something about it before this happened. Keep an eye on your dogs. If it seems more aggressive, then do something about it.” The child was airlifted to Loma...

n Sunday around 7 p.m., Jana Juhasz was watching roping practice at the Fallen Badge Arena in the small town of Christine. Juhasz had been to the property before, but this time, she watched her two-year-old son nearly get killed in front of her. Juhasz says her toddler, Brock, was playing with some of the Australian Cattle dogs, or Blue Heelers. But then Brock tripped over one of the dogs, and the dog turned on him. Juhasz says the dog, "wasn't just mad. It wasn't just intending to hurt him. It was out to kill him." She ran toward her...

UTE little Finn is lucky to be alive after he was attacked by two greyhounds at an off-leash dog park at Thornleigh last week. It is the second attack at the Dawson Ave park in a fortnight. In the other incident, a dog, believed to be a poodle, died after being attacked by a labrador. Two-year-old Finn required surgery and about 24 stitches after being attacked about 9.15am on Mother’s Day. “Two greyhounds ran down from the other end (of the park) and went straight for him and started chewing him,” Finn’s owner, Richard Bamber, said. He separated the dogs...

Many people mistakenly believe that all pit bulls are vicious killers -- born to fight and kill. They choose to believe that, given the opportunity, these dogs will be eager to enter a fray, happy to draw blood. Meet Sweetie, a 3-year-old pit bull that was brutally attacked by four other dogs. A dog that, despite being brutally ripped apart, never once tried to fight back. According to individuals that witnessed the attack, the other four dogs were completely unscathed. Sweetie literally did nothing to protect herself from the vicious onslaught. Sweetie is a pit bull and Sweetie is a...

GIRARD - The owner of the dog whose bite left a 12-year-old with more than 100 stitches is sorry the girl was injured but says she was not bitten while walking past the 15-month chocolate Labrador as she claims, rather because she was too close to it. "Destiny (Turner) walked over to Schnook and put her face next to the dog's face," Christina Morris said Thursday. "That's when he bit her face." The girl claims she was walking toward her house, 211 Broadview, about 7 p.m. Sunday when the chained dog leaped on top of her and began biting her...

Odessa toddler Braydon Wright remains in the hospital after the family dog suddenly attacked and nearly killed him. It happened over a week ago, but the medical bills are already over a million dollars. "It hurts that I can't do nothing about it," Braydon's father, Barry Wright said. "If I could switch with him I would." 19-month-old Braydon Wright will have to live with scars because Blue, his great grandmother's blue healer, attacked him on April 15.After learning the dog later had multiple seizures while in the care of Animal Control and eventually died of a stroke, the family now...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. -- A pit bull terrier fatally mauled a 7-day-old baby Wednesday as the child apparently lay next to his sleeping teenage mother. The mother, whom neighbors identified as Nicole Koezeno, 16, didn't discover Thomas James Carter Jr. was dead until a neighbor said she knocked on the mother's door and woke her around noon. Koezeno answered the door, then turned around and saw what had happened to her newborn son, neighbors told the St. Petersburg Times. Neighbor Jackie Frishe, 19, said the baby had claw and puncture marks on his back and stomach. Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/14/1579228/7-day-old-florida-infant-dies.html#ixzz0l7IZ8GoY

On April 4 at approximately 5 p.m., four juvenile males were walking on the roadway in the 900 block of Hilendale Way in Prince Frederick, when a German Shepherd and a yellow Labrador left their property and attacked one of the boys, an 11-year-old. The German Shepherd bit him on the right butt cheek causing deep puncture wounds. The yellow Lab bit him on the back of his left leg causing wounds. Both dogs dragged the boy out of his shoes and into the yard. One of the boys ran for help while another tried to stop the attack by...

Pit bulls attack 6-month-old boy 03:44 PM PDT on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 By SARAH BURGE Police are investigating a dog attack Saturday at a Murrieta apartment in which a 6-month-old boy was bitten in the groin, authorities said. Animal control officials said the child lost his testicles in the attack. Sgt. Bob Landwehr said today that police were called to a report of a dog bite shortly before 10 a.m. Saturday at an apartment complex at 26301 Arboretum Way. The mother and her friend had left the baby strapped into a portable carrier and unattended in a room with...

POQUOSON, Va. (WAVY) - A 3-year-old Poquoson boy had part of his ear severed Wednesday after being bitten by a golden retriever, according the Poquoson police department. Police say that Wednesday just before 5 p.m., police and fire crews were dispatched to a mobile home on Wythe Creek Road after getting a report of a dog bite. They found the child had part of his ear severed and transported him to a hospital. Witnesses told police that the child wandered behind a storage shed near a short fence that divides two properties. They said they then heard a dog bark...

CONCORD — She didn't expect the dog to bite her. It was a yellow Labrador, after all — and it was on a leash. The 10-year-old was just riding her bike with a friend on the Contra Costa Canal Trail, staying close to the apartment complex from which her friend's stepfather could watch them from the balcony. None of that mattered when the Labrador lunged, without warning. A week and a half later, the gauze on Priscilla Robles's left leg hides the bite marks, the chunk missing from her thigh, the dead skin from the surgeon's failed first attempt at...

A neighbor says his wife, mother-in-law and eight month old son were walking down the street when the animal attacked the child's stroller. By Rob Starkey Friday, March 26, 2010 at 7:48 p.m. Read more: Local, Crime, Pitbull, Dog Attack, Animal Control, Knollwood, Brad Muller, Eight Month Old Son, Richland Animal Care COLUMBIA -- Some Columbia neighbors are up in arms after a brutal dog attack on Thursday. After numerous alleged incidents, many are hoping this animal will be taken off the streets for good and their home will again become a safe place for families to walk the streets....

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- A pit bull mix in Tennessee has been sentenced to obedience training after his dogged attack on a local police car. Winston didn't bite anybody, but he mauled a Chattanooga police car in what might have been a confused attempt to take a bite out of crime. The persistent pooch managed to tear off a section of the front bumper and damage the tires. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that a judge ruled that Winston had been a very bad dog. He was sentenced to obedience and canine good citizen classes, and he'll have to wear...

A woman is in serious condition after being attacked by her own dog at Portland in western Victoria. Ambulance officers say both of the woman's arms are badly injured and they described one of them as being "partially amputated". She also has horrific facial injuries. Police believe a family member alerted neighbours to the attack at the woman's flat in Pile Street. When the neighbours arrived, they could see the woman being mauled by the pit bull Staffordshire cross. They entered the house by smashing a glass panel in the front door.

Pitbull attacks owner 24 hours after adoption Posted: Jun 18, 2009 4:31 PM PDT Updated: Jun 18, 2009 8:52 PM PDT COEUR D'ALENE -- A pitbull adopted from the Kootenai Humane Society attacked its new owner a day after it was adopted and then got away when police tried to corral the animal. During the attack the victim, Kip Legaard, called 9-1-1 and when police officers arrived and tried to taser the dog it ran away. Legaard, who lost nearly two pints of blood in the attack is now angry because he had been told by the Humane Society the...

Posted by Sarah Harlan - email BATON ROUGE, LA (NBC) - A reporter for an NBC affiliate in Louisiana was rushed to the emergency room after she was bitten by a pitbull. Reporter Emily Turner, from WVLA in Baton Rouge, was working on a story featuring pitbulls on Friday after several area residents were attacked by the feisty canines. Turner was interviewing a family who owned a pitbull, to show how safe the animals can be, when she got a little bit more than she bargained for. During the interview the family's pitbull, named Polo, lunged at Turner and bit...

CHATTANOOGA — What happened to a Chattanooga police officer’s car was certainly under the radar. A city police spokeswoman said Sunday that Officer Clayton Holmes had been checking traffic speeds with radar and stopped to fill out a report when he felt his car shaking. He found a bulldog chewing on the tires. After the dog attacked two passing cars and a second police car, officers used pepper spray and a Taser on it, but the animal wasn’t deterred. By the time McCamey Animal Center staffers captured that dog and two others, it had chewed two tires and the entire...

It's been reported that many wolf tracks were around the body of Candice Berner. At least 2 wolves and as many as 4. Bob Berner, father of Candice, said the troopers told him that there appeared to be a struggle that lasted approx. 150 ft. before Berner went down. There were also signs that she was still alive as the wolf pack dragged her along. The wolves went for her throat, as many predators do, she did not die instantly.

A spaniel that attacked an 89-year-old woman has been euthanized by Alachua County Animal Services. Theresa Herman was injured while feeding the dog on Feb. 4, said Animal Services Director David Flagler. She needed surgery for treatment of extensive wounds to her leg. The dog, named Chief, was owned by Mary Clark of 10108 S.W. 44th Lane and was "food aggressive," Flagler said."This dog did substantial damage to the victim," Flagler said. "It was a very serious bite, probably one of the worse that we've seen in a long time." Herbert Clark surrendered the dog to the county, which euthanized...

SEMMES, Alabama - Three dogs are in quarantine at the Mobile Animal Shelter. The two labs and blue heeler look harmless, but Mobile County Animal Control says they’re responsible for a vicious attack. “The child was rushed to the hospital is doing fine the last thing we got it was about 160 stitches,” says Animal Control Officer Carmelo Miranda. The family says three-year-old Madison Shelton was playing in the front yard Wednesday when the dogs started attacking her. She's at USA Children's & Women’s Hospital with her family. “If you allow your dogs to run out and they get into...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An autopsy conducted Thursday shows that wolves likely killed an itinerant teacher in the southwest Alaska village of Chignik Lake, according to the Alaska State Troopers. Village residents found the body of Candice Berner, 32, a short distance from town on Monday. Multiple injuries due to animal mauling caused Berner's death, trooper Col. Audie Holloway said, referencing a report from the state medical examiner's office.

Wildlife officials killed a mountain lion yesterday that invaded a home near Salida, attacking five dogs and trapping a mother and two children. The mountain lion entered the home nine miles northwest of Salida about 4 p.m. Thursday after it chased a small dog through a pet door. Michelle Bese, 27, and her two children, ages two and five, were inside with four of her five dogs.

Updated: Mar 04, 2010 7:36 PM PST By Logan Smith LEE COUNTY, SC (WIS) - A pit bull was euthanized in Lee County Thursday after it attacked and killed its owner's aunt, who had been caring for it while her nephew was out of town. Lee County Sheriff E.J. Melvin said Ethel Baker Horton, 65, was killed off Stokes Bridge Road near the town of Lucknow while defending her 71-year-old husband, Jerry Horton, from the pit bull. "You never think of somebody dying that horrible death like that, not someone as close as she is to us," said Brenda Gillespie,...

Wednesday, March 03, 2010 Alex Zdan STAFF WRITER TRENTON -- A 78-year-old woman was mauled by her friend's pit bull Monday evening after she slapped the animal when he tried to get the ribs she was eating, officials said. The dog's owner tried to distract the animal and throw cold water on him to no avail, then fled the apartment and called 911 when the animal turned to attack her, police and animal control officials said. Six minutes after the attack began, a police sergeant was able to get the dog to drop his grip on the senior's right arm...

UPDATED: 4:41 am MST February 27, 2010 MESA, Ariz. -- A pit bull attacked his young owner in Mesa on Friday, slashing the man’s face, police said. Friends of the victim described sounds echoing through their apartment complex that are the stuff of nightmares. “I just heard growling. I heard him say, 'Stop it,'” said Darrin Keser. “Cops everywhere, ambulance,” said Malynzo Cofey. According to police, an 18-year-old man named Raul went inside his home to get a video game for a friend when his pit bull, named Chico, attacked. “The 18-year-old suffered severe lacerations to the face. We got...

A 90-year-old woman was badly scarred after she was attacked by a dog. Margaret White, of Sidcup, nearly lost an ear and had to have more than 100 stitches. She was visiting a sick friend, Susan Molden, in Chislehurst, when she was attacked by the Staffordshire bull terrier last Friday. Mrs White said when she knocked on the door, Mrs Molden's young granddaughter answered it and the dog came charging out and attacked her. Help did not come until several minutes later when the child's mother, who had been in the shower, pulled the dog away. Speaking from hospital, where...

3 pit-bull attacks cause death, mayhem By KITTY CAPARELLA & STEPHANIE FARR Philadelphia Daily News caparek@phillynews.com 215-854-5880 THE BLOODY paw prints were still in the snow, and a bunch of white gauze lay nearby. The pinkish snow was packed down where two pit bulls had attacked a 10-year-old boy - severely injuring his right arm and puncturing his neck, left arm and back with their teeth shortly after 11 a.m. yesterday. The child had been walking with two boys who had both dogs on leashes. The dogs - one brown and the other white with brown spots - began fighting...

FISHTOWN - February 20, 2010 (WPVI) -- Police are investigating the death of a woman after she was attacked by the family's pet pit-bulls. Philadelphia police responded to a call just before 7:00 Saturday morning for reports of a woman being attacked by several pit-bulls in Fishtown. The incident happened along the 1400 block of East Oxford Avenue. When police arrived on scene, they saw a 38-year-old woman being attacked by one pit-bull; 5 other pit-bulls were being contained by the victim's mother. Police shot and killed the one dog. Moments later, another dog escaped containment and police shot and...

A Hamilton woman was attacked by a dog Wednesday, and she is hoping the owner comes forward because she believes the dog is still on the loose. Stacy Martin was lucky-doctors at Fort Hamilton hospital say the animal just missed an artery in her left leg during the attack yesterday afternoon. Martin went to visit a friend on North Eleventh Street. She got out of her car and turned to lock the door when she was attacked by the dog. The dog bit her ankle and went for her face. Martin pushed the dog away and that's when the dog...

By Amanda Hara MANCHESTER, Tenn. - A girl survived a close call when a pit bull attacked her. It happened five days ago in Manchester, but Kalin Gurdak's wounds are still very visible. "They said that pit bulls usually attack the throat, and if he would have got her by the throat then it would have been over with," said mother Brandy Gurdak. Police said the dog likely bit the 4-year-old three different times. It took 58 stitches to close the wounds. Brandy said her now ex-boyfriend brought the dog home and asked to watch it for a friend. She...

(WSB Radio) -- A seven-year-old girl is recovering after she was attacked by a pit bull mix. Cobb County Police Sgt. Dana Pierce tells WSB the little girl was walking home from school in front of the Valley View Mobile Home Park near Eastside Drive, when the dogl came after her. That's when a neighbor, who saw what was happening, ran to her aid, possibly saving her life. "He went out with a piece of wood and actually struck the dog and was able to get the dog off of the seven-year-old girl," said Pierce. He then scooped the child...

February 13, 2010 - Most pit bull owners believe their dog would never attack a pet or human, but Rachael Ray, who has brought her beloved pit bull, Isaboo, on her show, is now grief-stricken as she faces having Isaboo put to sleep after his sixth incident of attacking dogs, this time he bit off the victim dog's ear. (Click here for Part 2, a summary of a few attacks). In early February Ray was out walking her dog on the streets of New York City's Greenwich Village. “As the other dog walked by, Isaboo lashed out so quickly and...

TERRY, Miss., Feb. 12 (UPI) -- A 5-year-old girl was killed Friday in an attack by a neighborhood pit bull in Terry, Miss., her grandmother says. Mable Bingham said the body of her granddaughter, Anataisa, was found lying in a ditch Friday after the attack by the dog, which the Hinds County Sheriff's Department took into custody, The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger reported. "It's so sad," Bingham said of the death of her granddaughter, whom she raised since birth. Bingham said the girl was playing in the snow outside when the attack took place. Additional details of the attack were not...

Cheyenne, Dakota and TahoeOne of the top rated Search and Rescue (SAR) dogs is Dakota, an Am Pit Bull Terrier. Kris Crawford, who has two other pit bulls that are also certified Search and Rescue dogs, owns Dakota. Dakota is so good at what she does that NASA requested Kris and Dakota to assist in the recovery of the Astronauts, after the tragic 2003 shuttle disaster. Kris and Dakota were also involved in the Laci Peterson investigation. Kris and her team have been involved in many cases and have made national news on several occasions. Cheyenne, Dakota and Tahoe, in...

Peppy television host Rachael Ray has been dealing with a family crisis – her beloved dog Isaboo has been attacking dogs while out on walks and she fears she may have to be put to sleep. PHOTOS: Jersey Shore Kids Leave Rachael Ray Taping Isaboo is the pit bull that has appeared on her show and whom she calls her “baby,” but the dog has had five incidents of violence with other dogs. The brown and white dog becomes aggressive even when on a leash and being walked by a dog handler. The latest incident with her dog occurred in...

Updated: 6:33 pm EST February 8, 2010 Comment On This Story ›› ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A 3-year-old boy was playing in his back yard Monday when a loose pit bull ran up and attacked him. A deputy ended up shooting and killing the dog behind the house on Coral Reef Drive near Alafaya Trail (see map). According to the incident report, the child, Jeremiah Miranda, is recovering from bites at Arnold Palmer. The most serious were to his head and he will need plastic surgery to repair his wounds. His father, Joshua Miranda, was also bitten on his hand....

A Slovenian who saved his three dogs from being put down for attacking humans was himself mauled to death by them, police said Wednesday.

A 5-year-old California girl who was mauled along with two siblings by a pack of escaped dogs remained hospitalized Tuesday and was unable to breath on her own, police said. The girl, whose name was not released, was walking with her mother and three siblings along train tracks when they were attacked Monday afternoon by five dogs that escaped a nearby yard by digging under a fence, said Fontana police Sgt. Jeff Decker. One dog, a mastiff, pulled the girl from her mother's hand and "and tossed the child around like a rag doll," Decker said. The girl suffered a...

Police are investigating the death of a 56-year-old Far South Side man whose daughter came home Sunday night to find him covered in blood and apparently killed by the pit bulls she was raising, police sources said. Johnny Wilson was found in the living room of his home in the 10200 block of South Aberdeen Street with numerous bite marks on his body, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Other sources said he suffered massive head, chest and upper body trauma.

VIRGINIA BEACH -- Two dogs were killed when neighbors' pit bulls jumped the fence and attacked, police said. The pit bulls are being held while the owners, Christina Hatchell, 40, and Jocelyn Little, 29, go through the court process, according to MPO Margie Hobbs. When police arrived on MacDonald Road Monday afternoon, one of the terriers was already dead; the other was badly injured and was taken to the vet. It died Thursday. "We can't catch a break," said owner Tara Hassan. "We just got our house out of foreclosure and now this." Police believe the pit bulls broke the...

A Canadian man has been mauled to death by a 295-kilogram tiger after winning a lengthy legal battle for the right to keep exotic pets... Norman Buwalda, 66, was found dead in the tiger's pen on his property in rural Ontario ... "He had gone in to feed the tiger and possibly had been attacked," Mr Carlson said, indicating there were no witnesses. Mr Buwalda had also kept two lions and a cougar, police said. In 2004, a tiger attack on a 10-year-old boy visiting the property sparked a ban on keeping wild animals as pets.

A former UPS driver has sued Joe Namath, alleging he was attacked by the Hall of Fame quarterback's dogs while making a delivery at his Florida Home. Attorneys for David Gunter say he hasn't been able to work since the 2007 incident in Tequesta, about 90 miles north of Miami. Lawyer Steven Slootsky says Gunter required four surgeries after suffering injuries to his neck, back and knee.... Gunter isn't the only one to have problems with Namath's dogs. Complaints have been filed against two of them, and one was ordered last month to be muzzled and leashed full-time.

A 2-year old boy died this morning after being bitten by the family dog. Cape police, fire, and EMS were called to a report of an animal bite with injuries at 7:41 am in the 200 block of Southeast 45th Terrace. The dog, a Weimaraner, was confiscated by Lee County Animal Control.

December 14, 2009 | 2:24 pm A 71-year-old man was hospitalized after he was attacked by two pit bulls in Encino, authorities said today. The man was walking in the 17900 block of Burbank Boulevard about 9:45 p.m. Sunday when he came across the pit bulls, said Det. Joel Price of the LAPD’s West Valley Station. He appeared to have tried to fight off the dogs by raising his hands, sustaining bite marks on both arms, Price said. The man was knocked to the ground, and a couple of drivers came to his aid, scaring off the dogs with their...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (Dec. 13) - Authorities say a Rottweiler attacked and killed a Florida toddler when the boy reached to pick up a cookie he had dropped.

Saturday, December 05, 2009 By SARAH RAHMAN JOURNAL STAFF WRITER A 70-year-old woman was critically injured yesterday morning when she was mauled by two pit bulls that had gotten loose from their Bayonne backyard, police said. Maria Zaldana, of Jersey City, was attacked at 9:11 a.m. outside the dogs' 15 W. 34th St. home, Bayonne Police Lt. Robert Deczynski said. Part of Zaldana's scalp was torn off, he said, and she also suffered numerous puncture wounds and had skin torn off from her right knee and calf and the left side of her face. Zaldana was just steps from the...

Pitbull rips off three-year-old boy's scalp 13:00 AEST Sat Dec 5 2009 By ninemsn staff A three-year-old boy has had most of his scalp torn off in a pitbull attack in the Northern Territory. The boy, whose name has not been released, was playing in the backyard of a relative's house in Katherine when a pitbull latched onto his hair and ripped off a large section of his scalp, the NT news reports. The boy's mother, who was inside the house at the time of the mauling, ran outside when she heard his screams. Paramedics rushed the boy to Katherine...