The boy was alone at his Paw Paw home in Van Buren County, Michigan, for a short time this weekend.
Investigators say that is when the family's two-year-old pit bull attacked the boy.
When the boy's older brother returned home, he was able to free the victim and rush him to the hospital.
The boy, whose name has not yet been released, is now being treated at a hospital in Kalamazoo.
Neighbors say this dog bit someone else earlier this year.
Police say the dog has been euthanized.
OH Lord, it was the family’s dog?
(shakes head in unbelief) Prayers for that boy.
Ironically, he lived in Paw Paw.
The Dogs of Peace.
In all honesty though what is the point of owning a dog that has that kind of power? I’m sure most are great but why own a dog that could kill or maim a person if it has a bad day? Whats wrong with a lab or a beagle?
“Neighbors say this dog bit someone else earlier this year.”
Any dog that potentially dangerous should be on a one strike and your out policy. I don’t understand keeping a pit that has shown itself to show any type of antisocial behavior around a child.
Dog of Peace...
Its too bad the owners have not been euthanized.
Prayers for that young boy and his older brother. The parents need to be slapped at the very least. The dog already proved to be a menace; their son had to be maimed before anything was done about it. Poor kid.
When I was younger, I always carried an Uncle Henry 5 inch folding lockblade knife which I took considerable pride in keeping razor sharp.
One night as I was leaving an adult education class at a local high school, I was walking across a darkened lawn to my car when an unleashed pitbull owned by some locals standing in an adjoining parking lot came charging at me.
In a flash, the knife was open, I was crouched, my left forearm was out but not too far out as a target for the dog. My thinking being that when he hit my forearm, I would forcefully ram it back into his mouth while simultaneously slitting his throat or, repeatedly stabbing him high in the rib cage and cutting down between the ribs. In those few seconds while he was charging, I also considered options should he not take my forearm as bait and I had to use that arm to then deflect his attack away from my vital areas.
Fortunately for all concerned, the dog stopped his charge about ten feet from me, hesitated, then turned and went back to his owners who were chasing wildly after him. We never spoke but I'm sure they saw my knife blade as I was intentionally moving it so they would see the reflection as the dog ran back to them.
The kid would have been more safe in the company of an underfed and abused Rottweiler.
Why is it we never hear of attacks by Golden Retrievers, Border Collies and Bassett Hounds?