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Officer Shoots Police Dog To Death During Attack
Even police trained German Shepards attack. . .
An officer shot a police dog to death Tuesday when it attacked him as authorities searched for a burglary suspect, police said.
Police surrounded a home on Sims Road after the owner reported that someone broke in and stole two handguns. The nearby Ivy Drive Elementary School was locked down for several hours during the search for the suspect.
Officer Greg Blackinton sent police dog, Bosco (not shown), a German shepherd, into the house to look for the suspected thieves. Police said the dog then ran out of the house and bit Officer Brian Aleia on the leg. When the dog attacked Aleia a second time, the officer shot the dog with a shotgun, police said.
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Jury finds woman guilty of involuntary manslaughter in pit bull attack
A jury Thursday found a pit bull owner guilty of involuntary manslaughter for allowing her dogs to run loose and kill an 82-year-old woman.
Deanna Large, 37, sat quietly as the verdict was read, while the family of victim Dorothy Sullivan quietly wept.
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American pit bull attacks boy
A three-year-old boy has been flown to hospital in Melbourne after being mauled by a dog in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.
The toddler was with his father in a neighbour's house in Yallourn North yesterday afternoon when the american pit bull terrier attacked.
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Opinion: Officials right to look at ways to prevent pit bull attacks
We share the outrage expressed last week by Lincoln County Attorney John Hackley concerning the dangers of pit bulls.
At a Lincoln Fiscal Court meeting, Hackley and members of the court heard from a Lincoln County woman whose son was jerked off his bike and severely bitten by a pit bull. The boy's injuries required 50 stitches, and the attack left him emotionally traumatized as well, his mother told the court.
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