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Pit Bull That Attacked 4-Year-Old Girl Released From Death Row

by Brett Singer, Posted Aug 18th 2010 11:00AM

Franchesca Surun, right, with her dog Snoop, who spent eight months on doggie death row for biting a 4-year-old girl.Credit: Joe Marino, New York Daily News
Here's a phrase you don't hear every day: Wow, that dog has a great lawyer. Following ...
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Dad Fights Pit Bull to Save Daughter

by Sandy Maple, Posted Nov 21st 2008 3:00PM

This is one of those stories that sends chills down my spine. It has a happy ending - but just barely. 31-year-old Steven Hehr of Gladstone, Oregon was visiting with some friends in Happy Valley when he heard his seven-year-old daughter, Jayda, ...
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Why do parents keep "dangerous" dogs around their kids?

by Heather, Posted Feb 5th 2007 9:00AM

Every few months a story pops up in the national headlines about a family whose dog has either mauled or killed a child. The most recent one involves a pit bull puppy that allegedly destroyed the foot of a young boy with spina bifida. Because the boy ...
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Florida mom mauled to death by her own dog

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 22nd 2006 5:00PM

Every year there are sad stories about dogs mauling family members, the result being death for the family member and euthanasia for the dog. Most recently a 30 year-old Florida woman Shawna Wiley, and mother of two, was mauled to death by her male ...
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