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Police in Central California say two family dogs killed a 3-day-old baby after her mother left her on the couch and walked away for a few seconds... The girl’s mother had left the door open because it was hot and she thought the dogs were tied up in the back yard. The baby died at a hospital shortly after the attack. the two male dogs, which are believed to be a mix of shar-pei and pit bull are owned by the woman’s brother.

A commercial kennel owner in New York destroyed 93 dogs using a hose connected to a farm engine and pumping carbon monoxide into a makeshift "gas chamber." David Yoder, owner of Black Diamond Acres kennel in Romulus, told a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector during a July 15 inspection that he killed the dogs to "depopulate" the kennel. Yoder said he created an airtight chamber out of a wood whelping box (where nursing puppies are typically housed with their mothers) by fitting the opening with a metal door with a small hole for an exhaust pipe which was attached to...

ROMULUS NY— A number of Seneca County officials assisted in the removal of living and dead dogs found inside a residence in the hamlet of Hayts Corners Tuesday, on a frigid evening where the temperatures inside the unheated house weren’t much higher than they were outside. Peggy Yaw, a neighbor who had looked after James Bassett since he moved to 6797 County Road 129 last July, said she had reported her concerns to the Seneca County Sheriff’s Department earlier in the day. Yaw was in tears as she provided a list of the names of living and dead dogs removed...