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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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9-Year-Old Saves Girl from Pit Bull

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jan 7th 2009 1:00PM

When I enrolled my 8-year-old in a martial arts class, I did so mostly for the health and self-esteem benefits. In the class, she is learning some basic self-defense skills, but the idea that she would ever need to use those is just too scary to ...
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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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Pit bull bites, boy bites back

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jul 26th 2008 2:00PM

Usually the stories we hear of children being attacked by animals do not end well. This is not one of those. An 11-year-old Brazilian boy named Gabriel Almeida has become of bit of a local celebrity not just for surviving a dog attack, but for the ...
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