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A little boy just two days shy of his sixth birthday was killed after he was attacked by two dogs and mauled to death in Texas, officials said. Tanner Smith, a kindergartener who would have turned six on Tuesday, was severely bitten numerous times by two pit bulls around 7 p.m. Sunday while the boy was at a family friend’s Vidor home, the Orange County Sheriff's Department told INSIDE EDITION. Tanner was bitten about 16 times, with one bit going through an artery in his neck, his grandmother, Melissa Phillips, told KFDM News.

LITHONIA, Ga. -- An 8-year-old girl was attacked by two Staffordshire bull terriers in Lithonia Tuesday afternoon, DeKalb County police said.The attack happened while the girl was playing in the yard of her home on Margaret Court.CBS Atlanta spoke to the girl’s father on the phone Tuesday night. He identified her as Erin Ingram. He choked back tears as he said his daughter wasn’t doing well.“I think that this is horrible, horrible,” said neighbor Veronica Cook.Cook and her son Kahlil Smoot couldn't believe Ingram was viciously attacked by two neighborhood dogs.“She's a sweet little girl,” said Smoot.Police say Ingram was...

CIVIL RIGHTS THREATENED BY DANGEROUS DOG LAWS, AND BREED SPECIFIC LEGISLATION We citizens of the United States of America are still engaged in a civil rights struggle. This struggle knows no racial boundaries, it knows no social status, it knows no financial status. It affects every person, from the poorest, to the most affluent, from the city dweller, to the largest land owner. It goes to our most ancient and traditional property, and to our ownership and use rights in animals. Dog/animal ownership is as varied, as is the human tapestry that bonds our great nation. When we site the...

<p>VALHALLA — Alfred and Patricia Borawski had planned to take their 11-pound Lhasa apso to see the dog's half brother compete in a show at the Westchester County Center last weekend. But the little white dog didn't make it.</p> <p>At 2 a.m. Sunday, a coyote killed her and snatched her from her back yard.</p>