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BY STEPHANIE BARISH | wpix.com April 2, 2009 SHERMAN, C.T. (WPIX) -- A pony, racing around a field on Route 39 in Sherman, Conn. Wednesday, was severely injured after being mauled by two pit bulls that escaped from a neighbor's yard in West Fairfield, officials said. Anna Walsh, a mail carrier who was working at the time, witnessed the entire incident and saw the dogs leaping and biting the horse's mane, tail and neck. She said the whole thing seemed surreal. "There was no barking, no noise," Walsh told The News Times. "It was like when you watch Wild Kingdom,...

Kerry Dougherty Kerry Dougherty's column appears in the Hampton Roads section of The Virginian-Pilot every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Pit bull carnage continues Tired of hearing about pit bulls? Me too. But as long as people are allowed to keep these animals in residential areas, we're going to keep a body count. Two. That's how many children have been killed so far THIS WEEK by pit bulls. The most recent attack was this morning, in San Antonio. A seven-month-old baby was shredded by two pit bulls who breeched a baby gate and killed the infant in a bed. Last Thursday...

A Warren toddler is recovering after being attacked by a pit bull over the weekend. Three year old Christine Francis required 19 stitches after the animal bit her face. The dog got inside her home on Saturday after her father trapped it on the front porch, hoping animal control officers would come and pick it up. However, due to budget constraints, no one was available. The girl's father, Thomas Holmes, says he understands the city's financial concerns, but feels an exception should be made when it involves something dangerous. "I know those dogs aren't good to have around. When something...

DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. - A toddler is in critical condition after being bitten by his family's pit bull Tuesday. Paramedics arrived at a home in the 1900 block of Addison Road South around 9:30 a.m. and found a boy with severe injuries to his face, head and eye, Prince George's County Fire and EMS spokesman Mark Brady says. "As as a result of these injuries, paramedics transported the child to a specialty center in the Baltimore area," Brady says. On the way to the hospital, a man who was accompanying the boy "became confrontational and demanded to be let out"...