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The Associated PressThursday September 18, 2003, 03:55:09 PM BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - A mother and her boyfriend were arrested Thursday on felony child endangerment charges after a young boy was mauled by a pair of pit bulls in the family's backyard. Issac Guerrero was rushed to an area hospital in critical condition after the Friday attack. The 2-year-old was in serious condition Thursday at Children's Hospital Central California in Madera, hospital officials said. Vanessa Cruz, 22, and Anthony Zapaleta, 23, were arrested at the hospital while visiting the child. Both face felony child endangerment charges. Police said the boy was...

September 15, 2003 — A 13-year-old boy is hospitalized in fair condition after a pit bull mauled him around 7:45 p.m. Sunday in the 2300-block of South Sawyer. Neighbors say the dog has attacked before. Edwin Munoz is at Mt. Sinai Hospital. He was bitten on both legs, is hands and his crotch. "He was just walking around and the dog was loose and he just jumped over and grabbed him and his leg. It took away skin. You could see his bone," said Omar Garcia. Several children chanted as Animal Control officers removed the dog from their West Side...

'Daddy is my hero' By Alan Hardie Tuesday, 16 September 2003 "Daddy is my hero - he saved me from a bad doggy.'' With 18 stitches in her body, little Abby Tull told yesterday how her father Jason Christiansen wrenched her from the jaws of a savage pit bull terrier. "Doggy bit me sore,'' said four-year-old Abby as she recalled the attack at a house on the New England Highway in Rutherford on Sunday. Police confirmed the attack and said the dog had been destroyed yesterday. Jason and his partner Twila Tull told how a visit to a friend's house...

Pit Bulls Maul 2-Year-Old Boy Officials Say Attack Was Vicious POSTED: 9:50 PM PDT September 12, 2003 BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A 2-year-old boy was nearly killed Friday after being mauled by two pit bulls. Neighbors found 2-year-old Issac Zavaleta inside this home alone, being attacked by the dogs early Friday morning. They say they're shocked not only that it happened, but that the mother, identified as Vanessa Cruz, left the baby there with the dogs while she reportedly took her boyfriend to work. At about 7 a.m., a neighbor went to the house to find the two dogs --...

The San Francisco Dog Mauling On January 26th, 2001, 33-year-old Diane Whipple was mauled to death by her neighbors’ dogs in the hallway of her San Francisco apartment building. The brutal attack shocked residents of the city, and Whipple, young, prosperous and gay, quickly captured the public’s sympathy. But what was first seen as a tragic accident soon took on a more sinister tone. The dogs’ owners, Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, husband-and-wife attorneys, began making statements that seemed to suggest Whipple herself might have been to blame for the attack. And when information surfaced that the couple’s dogs had...

Pit Bulls Maul 2-Year-Old Boy Officials Say Attack Was Vicious POSTED: 9:50 PM PDT September 12, 2003 BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A 2-year-old boy was nearly killed Friday after being mauled by two pit bulls. Neighbors found 2-year-old Issac Zavaleta inside this home alone, being attacked by the dogs early Friday morning. They say they're shocked not only that it happened, but that the mother, identified as Vanessa Cruz, left the baby there with the dogs while she reportedly took her boyfriend to work.At about 7 a.m., a neighbor went to the house to find the two dogs -- named...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Will Stewart says he didn't have a choice in strangling a 6-month-old pit bull-mix puppy. The puppy that wasn't known to be aggressive suddenly turned violent last week. The dog bit or scratched four adults and two children in an Indian Trail neighborhood and was later found to be rabid. Stewart says the dog, Jake, went crazy. He says after the dog bit the children and his wife, he had to act. He called the dog, which he thinks weighed between 50 and 60 pounds, and pinned him to the ground. Stewart says he couldn't wait for...

Area Woman Charged in Pitbull Attack NORRISTOWN, Pa. Sept. 12, 2003 — A woman was charged with recklessly endangering her neighbors after her two pit bulls roamed the block and allegedly trapped six people in their cars. Click Here for more news on wpvi.com's menageria of Animals & Oddities. LaCora S. Watkins, 25, of West Pottsgrove, waived her preliminary hearing and could stand trial on 10 misdemeanor counts of recklessly endangering other persons. Police said they received a call the night of June 25 that two pit bulls had trapped six people inside their cars. An officer who responded to...

(KSDK) -- A three year old boy is out of the hospital after a vicious dog attack. A pit bull bit Drew Coleman yesterday in midtown. Drew was walking with his family when the dog attacked him. The family had reportedly stopped to talk with the dog's owner. The owner let the dog off the chain and that's when it bit him on the leg. Drew needed 30 stitches on his leg. The dog is now with animal control.

Click2Houston.com Pit Bull Attacks Boy, Officer Dog Placed Under Quarantine POSTED: 4:53 p.m. CDT September 12, 2003UPDATED: 5:51 p.m. CDT September 12, 2003 HOUSTON -- A pit bull attacked a boy and a Houston police officer near downtown Houston Friday afternoon, News2Houston reported. Officials said the dog escaped from its fenced-in yard in the 2000 block of Gano at Noble around 3 p.m. The dog bit the boy, 9, as he was walking down the street, witnesses said. An ambulance transported the child to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries. When a Houston police officer responded to the scene,...

  http://www.bakersfield.com/local/story/3910129p-3933103c.html Boy critical after attack by pit bulls Detectives unsure whether anyone was at home with toddler By MISTY WILLIAMS, Californian staff writere-mail: mwilliams@bakersfield.com Friday September 12, 2003, 10:40:17 PM Tony Zapaleta sits alone on a curb across the street from his home in Bakersfield, where 18-month-old Issac Guerrero was mauled by pit bulls Friday morning. Tears formed in Rosalia Martinez's eyes as she recalled holding the boy in her arms Friday morning as he reached up and touched her face with his hands. Blood covered 18-month-old Issac Guerrero's face and portions of bone were exposed along the...

local6.com Man Strangles Rabid Pit Bull Four Adults, Two Children Undergo Rabies Treatments POSTED: 2:06 p.m. EDT September 5, 2003 CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Will Stewart says he didn't have a choice in strangling a 6-month-old pit bull-mix puppy. The puppy that wasn't known to be aggressive suddenly turned violent last week. The dog bit or scratched four adults and two children in an Indian Trail neighborhood and was later found to be rabid. Stewart says the dog, Jake, went crazy. He says after the dog bit the children and his wife, he had to act. He called the dog, which...