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Odessa toddler Braydon Wright remains in the hospital after the family dog suddenly attacked and nearly killed him. It happened over a week ago, but the medical bills are already over a million dollars. "It hurts that I can't do nothing about it," Braydon's father, Barry Wright said. "If I could switch with him I would." 19-month-old Braydon Wright will have to live with scars because Blue, his great grandmother's blue healer, attacked him on April 15.After learning the dog later had multiple seizures while in the care of Animal Control and eventually died of a stroke, the family now...

he provincial government bit off more than it could chew by dooming pit bulls as Ontario's worst people-biters, the Toronto Humane Society says. Results of a survey of municipalities, released Wednesday, show no significant drop in dog bite cases since the government passed Breed Specific Legislation in 2005 that resulted in "countless" pit bulls and related Staffordshire Terriers being destroyed."This survey shows that the pit bull ban has not resulted in a reduction in the number of dog bites in Ontario," said the THS, which opposes breed-specific legislation. In the THS release, spokesman Ian McConachie quoted then-Attorney General Michael Bryant...

Wearing only a diaper and a sweatshirt, a 2-year-old boy was found wandering alone - save for the company of a pit bull by his side - in the Gaylord area on Sunday. It appears the toddler had been without adult supervision for at least six hours, according to a report by TV 9&10 News.

The dad who stabbed his dog to death after it savaged his two-year-old daughter said yesterday it was like a scene from a horror film. Gereth Sim, 31, is haunted by the moment the French bullmastiff, named Trigger, sank its teeth into little Taylor's face. He said: "I had turned away for two seconds and heard a growl. The next thing the dog had Taylor on the floor and was biting her face. "I punched him until he let her go, then stabbed him with a kitchen knife. Taylor's face was covered in blood. It was like a horror film....

...'Breed legislation isn't working,' says RSPCA chief inspector Jan Eachus, a dangerous dog project officer assigned to the Status Dog Unit. 'No human beings were killed by pit bulls before 1991, but since then we've had one death after another, mostly caused by cross-breeds. Dangerous dogs are not born, dangerous dogs are made, through abuse and neglect, and they can be any breed.'

The owner of an elderly dog nearly killed in an attack by another canine says the fact its owner took no responsibility only adds insult to injury. Gabriel Toth and Buzz, had left their Signal Hill home for a walk last Wednesday when a retriever-type dog ran across the street launching an attack on his four-legged friend. “It was a huge retriever on a leash, but the woman couldn’t hold the dog and it got loose and attacked my dog,” the 74-year-old retired geologist said Tuesday. “The poor bugger didn’t even see it coming.” He said Buzz, a 14-year-old Sharpei,...

A dog owner was fined at Belfast Magistrates Court last week after his dog attacked a woman. Piotr Nawiesniak, from Finaghy Road North, was fined £125 and ordered to pay costs of £66 after his Labrador dog attacked a neighbour on July 27, 2009. The judge also issued a confinement order meaning the dog has to be kept on a lead and muzzled at all times whilst out in public.

On April 4 at approximately 5 p.m., four juvenile males were walking on the roadway in the 900 block of Hilendale Way in Prince Frederick, when a German Shepherd and a yellow Labrador left their property and attacked one of the boys, an 11-year-old. The German Shepherd bit him on the right butt cheek causing deep puncture wounds. The yellow Lab bit him on the back of his left leg causing wounds. Both dogs dragged the boy out of his shoes and into the yard. One of the boys ran for help while another tried to stop the attack by...

Pit bulls attack 6-month-old boy 03:44 PM PDT on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 By SARAH BURGE Police are investigating a dog attack Saturday at a Murrieta apartment in which a 6-month-old boy was bitten in the groin, authorities said. Animal control officials said the child lost his testicles in the attack. Sgt. Bob Landwehr said today that police were called to a report of a dog bite shortly before 10 a.m. Saturday at an apartment complex at 26301 Arboretum Way. The mother and her friend had left the baby strapped into a portable carrier and unattended in a room with...

Posted: Apr 04, 2010 6:07 PM PDT SPOKANE, Wash-- A group of kids and parents in north central Spokane were in the middle of an Easter egg hunt Sunday afternoon when a couple of pit bulls from down the street got out from behind their fence and charged at them. One of the pit bulls grabbed on to one of the 6-year-old girls, biting her twice on the arm. The parents were able to run at the dogs and scare them back to their yard. The injured girl only suffered some minor bite marks. Parents don't have any idea why...

Neville the pit bull has a job at the ferry lines in Seattle. He works at Seattle's Coleman Dock sniffing for narcotics, weapons and explosives. Pit bulls, who still have a bad reputation, are really very affectionate and sweet dogs, and Neville is one of them. Previously held on death row in Canada, Neville ended up across the border in the K-9 work force. Today, for a dog that was almost euthanized, he's as loving as a dog can be. Neville was the first pit bull to sniff out explosives for the Washington State Patrol, which now has five pit...

POQUOSON, Va. (WAVY) - A 3-year-old Poquoson boy had part of his ear severed Wednesday after being bitten by a golden retriever, according the Poquoson police department. Police say that Wednesday just before 5 p.m., police and fire crews were dispatched to a mobile home on Wythe Creek Road after getting a report of a dog bite. They found the child had part of his ear severed and transported him to a hospital. Witnesses told police that the child wandered behind a storage shed near a short fence that divides two properties. They said they then heard a dog bark...

CONCORD — She didn't expect the dog to bite her. It was a yellow Labrador, after all — and it was on a leash. The 10-year-old was just riding her bike with a friend on the Contra Costa Canal Trail, staying close to the apartment complex from which her friend's stepfather could watch them from the balcony. None of that mattered when the Labrador lunged, without warning. A week and a half later, the gauze on Priscilla Robles's left leg hides the bite marks, the chunk missing from her thigh, the dead skin from the surgeon's failed first attempt at...

New Orleans Police Officers shot and killed a pitbull tonight as it was attacking a 5-year-old girl. The incident happened in the 5500 block of Warrington in Gentilly. Officials say the little girl was playing basketball in the neighborhood when a pitbull chased her into a backyard and attacked her.

A spaniel that attacked an 89-year-old woman has been euthanized by Alachua County Animal Services. Theresa Herman was injured while feeding the dog on Feb. 4, said Animal Services Director David Flagler. She needed surgery for treatment of extensive wounds to her leg. The dog, named Chief, was owned by Mary Clark of 10108 S.W. 44th Lane and was "food aggressive," Flagler said."This dog did substantial damage to the victim," Flagler said. "It was a very serious bite, probably one of the worse that we've seen in a long time." Herbert Clark surrendered the dog to the county, which euthanized...

Bill Setzer lay in his bed, sweaty and disoriented. He'd been napping. But now, his two pit bulls, Mara and Moby, wouldn't let him be. Mara was furiously licking Setzer's face. And Moby was repeatedly crashing his 70-pound frame into the man, in a frantic attempt to wake him. Setzer blinked. His vision was blurry. He felt lousy. The 63-year-old Stafford man, who has Type 2 diabetes, reached for the blood sugar meter on his bedside table, pricked his finger and read the numbers on the screen: 29. A normal blood sugar level ranges between 70 and 140. Setzer took...

SEMMES, Alabama - Three dogs are in quarantine at the Mobile Animal Shelter. The two labs and blue heeler look harmless, but Mobile County Animal Control says they’re responsible for a vicious attack. “The child was rushed to the hospital is doing fine the last thing we got it was about 160 stitches,” says Animal Control Officer Carmelo Miranda. The family says three-year-old Madison Shelton was playing in the front yard Wednesday when the dogs started attacking her. She's at USA Children's & Women’s Hospital with her family. “If you allow your dogs to run out and they get into...

There are 4 million people in the city of Los Angeles and who knows how many dogs. Of its canine residents, the city is sure only of this: About 120,000 are licensed -- as required by law -- and a lot of others are not. "Nobody has ever done a census. It's anyone's guess how many are out there," said Kathy Davis, general manager of L.A.'s Department of Animal Services, who declined to pick a number. "But we certainly don't assume we have all of them licensed." In this time of budget cuts, that spells opportunity for revenue. Dogs don't...

February 06, 2010|By David Kelly Reporting from Riverside — The pit bulls sprawled around the Riverside County Animal Control office this week were an unusually tranquil lot -- more fluffy the cat than hound from hell. Each had been sedated before its turn on the operating table to get fixed, part of an ambitious project aimed at putting a dent in their exploding population here. "We always knew we had a lot of pit bulls, but when we analyzed the data we saw that half our population was dominated by this breed," said Robert Miller, director of Riverside County Department...

JACKSONVILLE, NC - The parents of a baby whose toes were chewed off by a pit bull puppy will serve the next 8 to 10 months in jail. Robbie Jenkins, and her boyfriend, Tremayne Spillman, both entered guilty pleads to felony negligent child abuse, inflicting serious injury and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Spillman also plead to felony larceny. The couple told lawmen they were watching a friend's 12-week-old pit bull puppy, and while they slept, the dog chewed the toes off the four-month-old baby. The puppy was put down and the baby was put in foster care...