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A Tyler man has died after suffering a heart attack when he tried to help his mother-in-law stave off an attack by her neighbor's pit bulls. Van Zandt County Sheriff Pat Burnett said the mother-in-law tried to intervene when the pit bulls attacked her two dogs Thursday, but was knocked down and bitten by one of the pit bulls. The sheriff said the pit bull that bit the woman was stabbed and killed with a pocket knife by her son-in-law, who later had a heart attack while the woman was being treated. Burnett told the Tyler Morning-Telegraph that paramedics couldn't...

Tyler attorney and former state district judge Cynthia Stevens Kent is asking two Texas legislators to push a bill outlawing the ownership of pit bulls and-or pit bull mixed dogs in Texas, and to make the possession of the breed a third-degree felony. Mrs. Kent hopes Sen. Kevin Eltife, R-Tyler, and Rep. Chuck Hopson, R-Henderson, will sponsor the bill and put in front of the next legislative session. She wants the bill named Justin's Law, after 10-year-old Justin Clinton who was killed in 2009 by pit bulls in Rusk County. “My client, Serenia Clinton of Rusk County, and I ask...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Wednesday was a tough day for Flor Hull. Just a week ago, her beloved dog Ruffy was allegedly killed in her yard by a pair of loose pit bulls. Hull's husband found their dog's body when he got home but cleaned it up before the rest of the family arrived. Hull brought herself to look at the pictures for the first time Wednesday. The attack had an eyewitness. "As I came out, there was a pit bull running around that corner right there," said neighbor Raul Garza, who said the pit bulls went after him, too.

One equine has life-threatening injuries. Anchorage animal control officers are investigating a report of dogs mauling a 30-inch miniature horse at an East Anchorage animal rescue and petting farm, "The first thing I saw, the pit bull had my little, tiniest horse here, he had her by the lips," said Casey Jones Andrescu...A second dog was also involved in the attack, which left three horses injured, she said. Neighbors heard the noise and, armed with golf clubs, came to help,

Redding animal regulation officers Thursday took two pit bulls from an apartment after the dogs allegedly attacked a man in a wheelchair while he was taking his dog out. Animal regulation officers and Redding police were called to Roanoke Avenue in Redding’s Martin Luther King Jr. neighborhood about 1:45 p.m. after several reports of dogs attacking people. Witnesses said 57-year-old Charles Osborn, who lives on Roanoke Avenue, was taking his dog outside when the two pit bulls got loose from an apartment on the 1800 block of Roanoke. Several neighbors said Osborn suffered scratches to his arms and was bloodied...

Updated: Aug 08, 2010 5:00 AM PDT By Arnold Wyrick - bio | email BUSH, IL (KFVS) -A 5-year-old boy is clinging to life after being attacked by pit bull dogs while he played in the city park. The brutal attack on little Winston Bankston happened on Friday morning at the Village of Bush public park. Winston and his brother were playing on the playground equipment when the dogs attacked. Bush city worker Lester Taylor heard the boy's mother screaming for help. "I was checking water meter, and I heard this woman screaming," said Taylor. " I look up and...

Posted at: 08/05/2010 8:26 AM An Artesia man says vicious pit bulls keep getting into his yard forcing him and his family to stay inside. The problem has been going on for almost a year and Jason Shirey says he is fed up. Shirey killed one of his neighbor's pit bulls last year with a shot gun after it went into his yard and charged at him. Shirey's most recent run in with his neighbor's dogs happened early Monday morning. "I don't want to come out and find one of my dogs dead. I don't want to be attacked by...

Saturday, June 19, 2010 SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Police say a woman fatally shot one of two pit bulls that attacked her basset hound Saturday in South Los Angeles. Officers were notified of the shooting at 835 W. Rosecrans Ave. at around 10:30 a.m. The woman said she and her dog were about to leave their apartment for a walk when the attack happened. She described how the two pit bulls suddenly appeared and lunged at the basset hound. "She couldn't get the dogs off her dog. She went inside (her apartment) and got a gun," said LAPD Sgt....