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NEW ALBANY, Miss. -- The 16-month-old victim of a pit bull attack has been identified as Destiny Marie Knox from Union County. Her identity was released Friday by Coroner Mark Golding. Her body was taken to Jackson for an autopsy while sheriff's deputies investigated the killing, which occurred Thursday night when the child was attacked by a pit bull at her baby sitter's mobile home.

Saturday, November 07, 2009 Mother Says Pit Bull Owners Want Child's Memorial Removed LEVERITT'S CHAPEL -- The owners of two pit bulls that mauled to death a 10-year-old Leveritt's Chapel boy demanded a memorial to the child be removed, according to his mother. Serenia Clinton will attend a brief ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the spot of her son's death across from his school on County Road 133 to witness removal of the memorial. The memorial started out as a cross made of poster board with Justin Clinton's name on it and signed by his fifth-grade classmates at Leveritt's...

Story Created: Nov 3, 2009 at 11:08 PM CST Story Updated: Nov 4, 2009 at 1:27 AM CST A pit bull terrorized a Greene County neighborhood Tuesday afternoon, killing at least one dog and possibly two more. A pitbull on the loose made homeowners on Village Lane feel like hostages. The residential neighborhood sits just outside Springfield city limits. "She was playing by the door, and it was pounding on the glass," recalls Laura Macarthur who says she witnessed a pitbull's rampage. "I could hear the glass cracking." Her daughter, six-year-old Kylen was safe, but three neighborhood dogs were not,...

But I have a problem with pit bulls. And it has more to do with the two-legged creatures holding their leashes (if there is a leash).Because of their sheer numbers—estimates show that there are anywhere from 5 million to 10 million pit-bull-type dogs in the U.S. today, out of about 61 million total dogs—pits have become the dog du jour for a lot of people, not just gangbangers and wannabe thugs who use a pit as proxy for toughness. About 20 percent of dogs in ASPCA shelters are pit mixes. I've seen those who adopt these dogs for all the...

ELK, Wash. - The owner of a miniature horse says he was forced to shoot and kill three pit bulls that were mauling his animal. Thursday, the horse's owner told the Pend Oreille County Sheriff's Office the three dogs had come onto this property, off Juanita Lane and started attacking his horse. The man fired several warning shots to try and scare the dogs and when the warning shots did not work, the man turned his aim to the dogs, shooting all three. Two of the dogs died on the scene and the third ran off only to die later...

Beloved cartoonist Berkeley Breathed had an unusual inspiration for his latest children's book, "Flawed Dogs." No it wasn't one of the Santa Barbaran's many rescued pit bulls, but it was one of Michael Vick's infamous dogs who was set to be put down. "The book happened because I came across both a picture and a quote at about the same time -- a picture of one of Michael Vick's fight dogs. It was set to be put down, but a shelter in Utah decided to take the dog and a few others at the same time and try to rehabilitate...

(Cordova 10/29/2009) The owner of three pit bulls says his dogs aren't vicious even though they mauled a 62-year-old woman and her dog during a stroll through their Cordova neighborhood Thursday morning. The victim and her pet suffered dozens of bite wounds. So many, in fact, doctors lost count.. The attack happened at the 8600 block of Oak Trail Lane. The 62-year-old victim spent the day in the trauma unit at The Med and was released about 9:00 p.m. Thursday night. Witnesses say the pack of pit bulls attacked her husky, Skye, first. As she tried to protect her pet.,...

(Actual Title was too long...Here's the original ) One Woman Gives Man and Man's Best Friend a Chance At Redemption In Animal Planet's Pit Bulls And Parolees {snip}Pit bulls are eager to please, faithful and enthusiastic friends and pleasant with children according to credible canine organizations. Really, it's true. Yet, the public largely associates these dogs with fear, danger and unyielding aggression toward people. Pit bulls actually were once ranked among American's top five favorite pets and also known as the "nanny dog" for their gentleness with children. But they have fallen from grace. Now often associated with gang members,...

Top Dog event benefits animal shelter By Pat McCormack pmccormack@bcnnew.com Posted: 10/28/2009 01:00:43 AM EDT Two fortunate pooches -- each a survivor of very close calls -- trotted off with first prizes in the Westport Animal Shelter Advocates' (WASA) first Top Dog show near the basketball court at Compo Beach Sunday. Kobe Heinze, a 72-pound pit bull, won "Top Kisser" honors when he smooched with owner Scott Heinze, a New York City Fire Department paramedic who lives in Westport. Altagracia Heinze co-owns Kobe, who is named after basketball star Kobe Bryant. Abby Chase, meanwhile, a lightweight Sheltie, proudly wore the...

<p>A 2-year-old boy died after a chained-up pit-bull terrier in a neighbor’s backyard attacked him Wednesday morning in Prescott, police said.</p> <p>The boy and his 3-year-old brother wandered out of their home about 9 a.m. and made their way into an unfenced yard two houses away where two dogs were chained up, police said.</p>

October 25, 2009, 12:00PM FLINT, Michigan — Little Brooklyn’s head was in the pitbull’s mouth when Keith Sampson, 13, grabbed the dog by the neck, forcing it to gasp for air and let the 3-year-old go. Then, after Keith lost his hold on the dog it went on to attack next-door neighbor Kristine Keaton, 37, who came to help, biting her arm to the bone. “It was a nightmare, and we feel like we’re just waking up from it,” said Keith’s mom, Jennifer Burcar, 33, of Flint about last Sunday’s events. The day was supposed to be spent celebrating Brooklyn’s...

<p>WEST VALLEY CITY — A 5-year-old boy suffered severe facial injuries Friday afternoon after he was attacked by a pit bull.</p> <p>"He yelled, 'The dog bit my face off and I think I'm going to die,'" said Greg Johansen, who was one of the first to help the boy.</p>

The Journal Gazette A Pierceton woman visiting her son was attacked by a pit bull Tuesday, and the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department said the woman might lose her arm. Deputies said they were called to 9735 East County Road 150 South, north of Pierceton, shortly before 5 p.m. after an off-duty Warsaw police officer who lives nearby was able to get the dog off Janet Hartman, 63. Hartman was at the home of her son, Kevin, got out of her van and approached the residence, the sheriff's department said in a statement. The family dog ran from the porch area...

A MAN has told how he tried to save his dog from a pit bull attack before it turned on him and locked its jaws on his arm. Reservoir man Eric was walking his two small dogs on Arundel St, Reservoir, about 7.20pm last night when he and his dogs were attacked by an American pit bull. The pit bull killed one of the small dogs before attacking the other. ..... Just minutes earlier, the same dog is believed to have mauled a cat to death, attacked a dog and injured it's owner, a 10-year-old girl. ..... Following last night's...

A pit bull terrorized a local neighborhood, frightening children and attacking other dogs. A camera caught the aftermath of the attack as neighbors worked frantically to capture and restrain the animal. It happened in Citrus Heights and the video shows the exhausted dog being held down by three adult men, its muzzle wrapped in rope. Neighbors say the pit bull came out of no where and started terrorizing everything in sight. At least two small dogs needed medical attention after the attack. No people were hurt. The dog was taken away by Sacramento Animal Control officers. So far, nobody has...

DELTA — A 10-year-old boy was severely mauled by his family's pit bull yesterday, but did not suffer life-threatening injuries, authorities said. The boy's name was unavailable last night. He was attacked by the family pit bull when he walked into his home in the 9000 block of Fulton County Road 11 about 5 p.m. with a computerized baby doll from school, County Dog Warden Peter Skeldon said. “The baby started crying, and when that happened, the pit bull attacked,” Mr. Skeldon said. The boy suffered bites to his face, an arm, a leg, and his back, the dog warden...

Pit Bull attacks mother, children Updated: Tuesday, 13 Oct 2009, 5:01 PM EDT Published : Tuesday, 13 Oct 2009, 5:00 PM EDT * Story by: Kristin Kroha, Web Producer Stamford (WTNH) - Police say a Pit Bull attacked a woman and her dog, along with a mother and her two small children, on the East Side, of Stamford, around 8 a.m. Tuesday. According to the Stamford Advocate , a woman was walking her dog near Sheridan Street and Lincoln Avenue when a roaming dog, that she described as a Pit Bull, attacked her dog. A city employee, gathering recycling, saw...

Officer knocked down by pitbull dies

BRIGHTON, Colo., Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A 70-year-old woman is reported in critical condition in Adams County, Colo., following a heart attack that occurred during a mauling by a pair of dogs. The Denver Post reported Monday Mary Garcia is being held at St. Anthony Central Hospital in the wake of last week's attack by two dogs, a mother and her offspring, that had escaped from their owner's home. Garcia was walking to her car Friday night when the two mixed-breed pit bulls attacked her, leaving her with bites to her face, arms and legs. Local resident Felix Mendez and...

7:28 PM Sunday, October 4, 2009 HAMILTON — Pastor Greg Andrews paid a price trying to protect his parishioners from a menacing pit bull. The 53-year-old leader of the House of Deliverance Church on Millikin Street was attacked late last month by a neighbor’s pit bull in the church parking lot. Around 200 parishioners, including children and elderly, had gathered inside the church for a concert. The dog was loose in the parking lot. Andrews said he asked the owner to take the dog away and secure it. “I turned around and the next thing I know the dog’s on...

ANOTHER vicious pit-bull attack, another life lost. This time it was an Orange County toddler, a 23-month-old little girl who wandered too close to a chained dog and paid--with her life. In May, a 3-year-old Culpeper boy and his grandmother were mauled by two pit bulls loose in their neighborhood. In 2008, a Fairview Beach toddler sustained serious facial wounds when he approached a neighbor's chained pit bull. In 2005, 86-year-old Dorothy Sullivan of Partlow was killed in her own yard, along with her little dog, by a neighbor's pit bulls. Serious charges, these, against a type of dog many...

A year ago Princess Goodwin was left with a gaping hole instead of a nose after her hound savaged her face in a freak attack.Recalling the moment when she awoke to find that greyhound Ali, who'd been sleeping on her bed, had launched the frenzied attack, she said: "It was quite confusing because I didn't know what had happened. "It was only when I realised the dog had bitten me I thought this isn't good, this is bad. "My first instinct was 'Hell, it's bad, what is anyone going to do with that?' – there wasn't anything to do anything...

TWO teenage girls were left shaken and frightened after their Staffordshire bull terrier was attacked by a golden retriever. The family has now called for all breeds of dogs to be kept on leads and under control when out in public. Three-year-old Zakk was left with a bleeding face and ear and now has a nasty scar on the side of his head. Jude Cother, of Bettle Close, Drakes Broughton, near Pershore, thinks ‘Staffies’ get too much bad press and believes other breeds of dog need to be kept under better control. Mrs Cother, aged 40, said: “Zakk was on...

It's a true-to-life case of man bites dog. A Saskatoon man says he unleashed his inner canine in order to stop a wandering pit bull terrier from attacking his neighbour's dog about two weeks ago. In a Sept. 24 interview, Jonathon Schacher said he heard a scream outside his home and looked outside to see the pit bull and the other dog entangled. He said he ran outside and tried to pull the aggressive dog off the other, but the pit bull had its jaw locked around his neighbour dog's muzzle. He tried yanking the pit bull off, but Schacher...

10:51 PM EDT, September 30, 2009 Shirley Pinner doesn't feel as safe as she once did in her home in the 3400 block of North Temple Avenue, a home she's lived in for thirty years. Her sense of security was shaken last month when she was attacked by one of her neighbor's pitbulls. "He knocked me right down through the middle of this bush right here, so I had a cordless phone in my hand and started beating him up with the phone," said Pinner. The pitbull clamped down on the 70-year-old's skin, causing her to need multiple stitches. Pinner...

A DOG owner was left horrified after her Staffordshire bull terrier was viciously mauled by a collie during its daily walk in the latest in a spate of dog attacks in the area. Karen Ofinski-Fogarty said it was the second time that her "soft" and "kind-natured" Staffie Lucy has been targeted in the Braid Hills.Mrs Ofinski-Fogarty, from Colinton, said that Lucy was first attacked last September when a mongrel tore her ear and caused a huge gash across her head. She required emergency surgery. "Lucy was screaming like I had never heard before, there was blood pouring from the wound....

Thomas Scott, 97, was in his backyard at 503 Court St. when a black Lab-mix attacked him. Scott said the dog bit him on his leg as he was walking in his yard, and he had to use his walker to get the dog off. In a report by Crawford County Deputy Sheriff Eddie Weber, who responded to the incident, Scott was in his residence when Weber arrived and had sustained a severe laceration to his leg. Crawford County EMS treated the victim at the scene, and he was transported to Harrison County Hospital in Corydon. It required 11 stitches...

A dog that was responsible for a vicious attack on a teenage girl in east Windsor last weekend is being designated by the Humane Society as "dangerous." "It had her by the arm," said William Green, a neighbourhood resident who witnessed the attack. "The bone was visible... She had chunks of her own flesh on her clothes. She was in shock." The incident happened around 4 p.m. on Sept. 5 in the 2600 block of Jos St. Louis Avenue.Windsor police said the dog -- a six-year-old Chesapeake Bay Retriever -- bit the victim deeply on her right forearm. The severity...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - A 3-year-old girl was hospitalized after she was attacked by a dog outside her Coeur d'Alene home. According to a Coeur d'Alene police report, the toddler ran outside to greet her mother when two dogs belonging to a neighbor ran up and 1 of them, a Belgian shepherd-type dog, attacked her. Her mother began kicking and screaming at the dog, and the child's father and the dog's owner ran over and were able to pry the dog away from the child after several minutes. Police said the child suffered bite wounds to her head, chest,...

A woman was left shaken after being bitten by a greyhound, which also attacked her dog, in the Isle of Man. The woman was walking her Tibetan terrier along Douglas Street in Peel when the other dog, which was also being walked, attacked them. The terrier suffered an open wound to the neck, which later required surgery, and the woman was bitten on the hand. Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which happened at about 1615 BST on Friday. Pc Ian Scott, of Peel police station, said: "I am led to believe a number of people witnessed the...

A Pinellas County deputy defused a potentially dangerous situation involving two marauding pit bulls by luring them into his squad car with dog treats, the sheriff's office said this morning. Deputy Vance Nussbaum, 45, was dispatched to a report in Belleair Beach last week that the two canines had charged a 65-year-old woman as she was running into her home away from them, clutching her Doberman pincher puppy, the sheriff's office said.

ORANGE, Va. (AP) -- A pit bull that attacked and killed a 23-month-old Orange County girl has been euthanized. The Orange County Sheriff's Office says the dog attacked the child Sunday night at a residence in the Mountain Track Road area.

Published : Saturday, 26 Sep 2009, 10:30 PM EDT * Alison Bologna Alison Bologna WORCESTER, Mass. - A 3-year-old boy is recovering at home after he had to get 100 stitches on his face following a pit bull attack in Worcester. Bartolo Colon was released from the hospital Saturday morning after spending the night in the hospital. Colon was attacked by his neighbor’s dog Friday night while entering his Aetna Street home. His father and godfather wrestled the dog off of him.

BILLINGS, Mont. — Prosecutors say a Montana man shot and paralyzed a neighbor who complained about his pit bull puppy's barking. David J. Orr, of Billings, Mont., was charged Thursday with felony aggravated assault.

Story Updated: Sep 23, 2009 at 8:05 PM PDT By Melica Johnson KATU News and KATU.com Staff SWEET HOME, Ore. – A horse had to be put down after breaking its back and one of its legs after being chased by a pit bull, according to its owner. According to Michelle Street her 18-year-old mare, Ellie, was chased by a neighbor’s pit bull Tuesday morning, flipped over a fence, made her way into a street and was hit by a car. Street said this isn’t the first time she’s had problems with her neighbor’s pit bulls. Two years ago Street...

TAMPA - 11-year-old Hercules was a four pound toy poodle, and for 11 years, he was Betsy Wald's pride and joy. "He climbs in bed with me at night. Hercules was part of the family," Wald said. Monday Wald's boyfriend took Hercules into the yard and turned away for a moment. When he turned back, Wald says it was already too late. "I saw the dog hop the fence, grab the dog, and he was shaking my dog by the neck," Wald said. Wald says one of the three pit bulls from her neighbor's house jumped her fence and attacked....

UPDATED: 12:48 pm CDT September 21, 2009 OMAHA, Neb. -- An Omaha woman nearly lost her leg while defending a child from a pit bull attack. Police were called to 14th and Sherwood streets Saturday where they captured the dog. They also found Joyce Haynes bleeding badly from several bite wounds to her legs. She was missing part of her calf muscle. Neighbors said a normally friendly pit bull turned on a young boy and Haynes intervened. “She heard the scream of a little kid and it wasn’t a normal scream. It was a blood-curdling scream, like a child was...

<p>Davidson County, NC-- A 4-year-old was hospitalized Sunday after being attacked by a dog near her Davidson County home.</p> <p>"She had a sucker in her mouth, and the dog tried to take it," said Rodney Baisden, the 4-year-old's father. "She's got three lacerations on her face, two bites on her arm, a couple bites on her legs, and it took 50 stitches in her face."</p>

Just after 8:00 Friday morning, a pit bull allegedly attacked a 10-year-old boy waiting for the school bus. Witnesses then saw the resident of a nearby home, 22-year-old Dustin Anglin, grab the dog and leave. The dog warden arrived on scene minutes later. Dave Nelson, acting Mahoning County Dog Warden says, "I was able to make contact and he advised me that he only has one dog and that it's a poodle. The evidence is telling me, people say he put the dog inside the basement." Anglin, at first, refused to return to help with the investigation, so the dog...

A 16-year-old pleaded guilty today to one count of second-degree assault, one count of third-degree assault and one count of being a minor in possession of alcohol for siccing her pit bull on two women in June in SeaTac. The girl entered the pleas after prosecutors amended the information to increase the seriousness of one of the assault charges from third- to second-degree based upon the seriousness of the injuries suffered by one of the victims. The girl was prosecuted as a juvenile so we are not naming her. Under juvenile sentencing guidelines, the girl faces a standard sentence of...

PORTER, Texas -- A 3-year-old girl was critically injured Thursday when she was attacked by a pit bull in Porter. The child was visiting her aunt's house on Sweet Gum near Live Oaks. She went in the backyard to help feed her aunt's three dogs and that's when the pit bull attacked, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department. The little girl was taken by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann Hospital. She's being treated for multiple puncture wounds and is in critical condition, according to Detective Mike Landrum.

When John M. Venezia's employer hadn't seen or heard from him, state police at Swiftwater were contacted Tuesday and went to check on Venezia, 48, at his Red Rock Road home in Paradise Township. Police knocked on the door and no one answered. Further investigation revealed Venezia lying unconscious in the hallway due to a medical condition. Police entered the home and noticed Venezia's right hand had been bitten off by a pit bull found in the home. As police tried to render aid, the pit bull lunged at a trooper and was fatally shot. Paramedics arrived on scene and...

CRESCO - A state trooper checking on a Monroe County man who failed to report to his job made a horrifying discovery: the unconscious victim lying in his home, his right hand bitten off by a pit bull inside the residence. John M. Venezia, 48, of Cresco, was taken to Pocono Medical Center, where state police at Swiftwater said he remained in intensive care Thursday. According to police, a trooper who went to Mr. Venezia's home on Red Rock Road in Paradise Twp. on Tuesday about 8:45 a.m. found the victim in the hallway, unconscious due to a medical condition....

3-year old Mauled by Family Pit Bull KTLA News 3:19 PM PDT, September 8, 2009 Click here to find out more! FULLERTON -- A 3-year-old girl is hospitalized in intensive care after being mauled by the family pit bull. It happened around 8:00 p.m. Monday at the family’s home in the 200 block of Costa Court. Investigators say the girl and her mother took food to the dog, which was tied up in the backyard The mother went back inside the house, leaving her daughter outside with the dog, said Fullerton Police Sgt. Mike MacDonald. Minutes later the girl’s 11-year-old...

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A pit bull that chewed the toes off of a 4-month old baby in North Carolina has been euthanized, while the child's mother and her boyfriend remain in custody, charged with felony child abuse. The 1-year-old dog was put down and tested negative for rabies. A spokeswoman for Onslow County Animal Control said that to test for rabies, animals must first be euthanized.

by Patrick Tolbert KILLEEN - A pit bull attack sent a 9-year-old girl to the hospital Tuesday afternoon in Killeen. Killeen Police tell News Channel 25 that the girl was attacked by a neighbor's dog after she got off the school bus at the intersection of Bryce and Evergreen. A witness tried to pull the dog off of the girl but was unsuccessful. Police say a neighbor then pulled the dog away and picked the girl up, carrying her to his residence. The victim was taken to Metroplex Hospital with what officers at the scene called "serious" injuries to her...

HOPE MILLS, N.C. — This isn't another dog-bites-man story. This is a dog-bites-the-deputy's-tires story. The Fayetteville Observer reported that the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office said a pit bull deflated all four tires of a deputy's cruiser near Hope Mills on Sunday. Sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Tanna said the deputy parked his car in a woman's driveway while responding to her complaint about another dog.

KILLEEN (September 1, 2009)—A 9-year-old girl was taken to Metroplex Hospital in Killeen Tuesday afternoon with what police described as a serious wound after a pit bull attacked her as she walked home from a school bus stop. The attack happened just after 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 900 block of Evergreen Street in Killeen near the intersection with West Bruce Drive, Killeen Police Department spokeswoman Carroll Smith said. The girl was walking south on the west side of Evergreen on her way home after getting off the school bus, Smith said, when the dog, which lives in the neighborhood,...

This isn't another dog-bites-man story. This is a dog-bites-the-deputy's-tires story. The Fayetteville Observer reported that the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office said a

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — Authorities say they are charging a North Carolina woman who slept as a pit bull chewed the toes off her 4-month-old baby's left foot. The Onslow County Sheriff's Office said Monday that the child's mother, Robie Lynn Jenkins, and her boyfriend, Tremayne Spillman, will be charged with felony child abuse. Deputies say the couple were dog-sitting the 1-year-old pit bull for a friend who had been arrested on gun charges