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			<title>Authorities: Calif. Toddler Mauled to Death by Pit Bull</title>
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			<description>MADERA, Calif. —  Authorities say a 17-month old boy has died after being mauled by a pit bull.



Merced County authorities say the attack occurred Friday, and the boy died after being airlifted to a hospital.



Deputy Tom MacKenzie says deputies responding to a 911 hang-up found blood on a doorstep. A few miles away, another deputy pulled over the driver of a car who was driving erratically.



Authorities say the woman behind the wheel was the same person who called 911, and she was  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:32:19 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Dog chewed off baby's toes as mom slept</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>JACKSONVILLE, North Carolina - Authorities say they are charging a North Carolina woman who slept as a pit bull chewed the toes off her 4-month-old baby's left foot.



The Onslow County Sheriff's Office said Monday that the child's mother, Robie Lynn Jenkins, and her boyfriend, Tremayne Spillman, will be charged with felony child abuse.



Deputies say the couple were dog-sitting the 1-year-old pit bull for a friend who had been arrested on gun charges.



Officials say Jenkins told investigators  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:08:48 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Sheriff: Ga. couple likely killed in dog attack</title>
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			<description>ATLANTA (AP) - A former college professor and his wife were apparently attacked and killed by nearly a dozen dogs along a rural northeast Georgia road where their bodies were found mutilated, authorities said Monday. 



Preliminary autopsy results from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation showed Sherry Schweder, 65, likely died of injuries from a dog attack, Oglethorpe County Sheriff Mike Smith said. Autopsy results for her husband, Lothar Karl Schweder, 77, were not yet available, but Smith  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:04:23 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>9-Month-Old Severely Bitten By Family Dog</title>
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			<description>CONCRETE, Wash. -- A 9-month-old has life-threatening injuries after being bitten twice in 24 hours by the family’s dog in Concrete, said Chief Criminal Deputy Will Reichardt of the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office.



The baby was crawling on the living room floor Aug. 2 when the 3-year-old Rhodesian ridgeback/Labrador mix named Hercules bit the child several times on the head, Reichardt said.



The baby was transported to the hospital and later airlifted to Seattle Children's Hospital with  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:15:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Sheriff's Office: Youths used pit bull as a weapon</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>The King County Sheriff's Office says four youths in SeaTac intentionally used a pit bull as weapon Sunday night, siccing the dog at two women, including one who stopped to help the animal after seeing the children abuse it.



The two Seattle women both suffered serious bite wounds — including one woman whose face was bitten. Now, the four youths, ages 11 to 15, face felony assault charges, a King County sheriff's spokesman said.



The dog attack happened about 6:30 p.m. in the 13300 block  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:48:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Illinois Boy, 3, Dies in Dog Mauling</title>
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			<dc:creator>Always-The-Boss</dc:creator>
			<description>JOHNSTON CITY, Ill. —  Services have been set for a 3-year-old southern Illinois boy who authorities say was attacked and killed over the weekend by at least one of his family's dogs.



Williamson County authorities say Gabrial Mandrell was attacked Saturday night at the family's home near Johnston City. He was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later.



Investigators say the boy pushed out the screen in a bedroom window and crawled outside before being attacked by a dog while the  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:41:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>2 pit bulls kill 10-year-old boy in Texas</title>
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			<description>KILGORE, Texas (AP) - Authorities say two pit bulls fatally mauled a 10-year-old boy in East Texas. 



The Rusk County Sheriff's Office says witnesses reported seeing the dogs drag Justin Clinton down the side of the road Monday in the small community of Leverett's Chapel. 



Tyler television station KLTV reports that a passing motorist pulled the animals off the boy. 



The fourth-grader was pronounced dead at a Longview hospital. 



Justin's great-aunt, Carolyn Spence, tells the  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:45:36 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Pit bull attacks Lake County woman in shower</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>HOWEY-IN-THE HILLS - A Lake County woman showering at a neighbor's home was attacked by an 18-month-old pit bull last week and had to be rushed to Orlando Regional Medical Center, according to a Sheriff's Office report.



The attack is at least the second mauling by a pit bull in Lake County this year, officials say.



During the attack last week, 73-year-old Joan Brown Benitez, suffered cuts and puncture wounds to her arms, lower legs and thigh areas, according to the incident report.  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:06:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Police Shoot Pit Bull, Save Collie In Dog Fight</title>
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			<dc:creator>Saira</dc:creator>
			<description>WASHINGTON, Pa. -- Police had to taser a pit bull twice before shooting it to end a vicious dog attack in Washington County.



The pit bull attacked another dog on Broad Street in the City of Washington.



&quot;I had to get that dog off him. He's all tied up and I didn't want my dog dead.&quot;



Donald Jacobs and his wife Vicky said their one-year-old collie named Buddy was attacked by a neighbor's pit bull as they sat outside their house around 11 p.m. Saturday.



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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:51:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>2 dogs kill infant, injure grandmother</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>SAN ANTONIO – A 7-month-old boy has died after being attacked by two pit bull dogs belonging to his grandmother in San Antonio.



Police Chief Bill McManus says the grandmother was getting ready to feed the boy Tuesday morning and went to her kitchen for his bottle. When she returned her dogs were attacking the baby.



The woman got a knife and stabbed one of the dogs, and got the child away.



The chief says the dogs then attacked the grandmother before she managed to get them outside.



Police  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:17:49 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Chicago Man Charged With Rape and Deadly Pit Bull Attack of Sisters</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>CHICAGO —  Authorities say a Chicago man kidnapped and sexually assaulted two women and two teenage girls over a 12-hour span, playing Russian roulette with the oldest woman and letting his pit bull attack them.



Jimmie Smith is charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder and four counts each of aggravated criminal sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping.



Authorities say the victims are three sisters, ages 21, 22 and 14, and their 14-year-old friend. Smith is the boyfriend  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 20:24:10 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Eustis mom mauled by dogs: 'I had to survive for my girls'</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>In the jaws of two pit-bull terriers, 22-year-old Tracy Lindsey fought like a dog for her life.



She bit one on the neck. She gouged at eyes. She kicked. She punched. She clawed.



&quot;I tried everything, but it wasn't much of a fight,&quot; the young mother admitted Tuesday from her bed at Orlando Regional Medical Center, where she was recovering from wounds inflicted by the dogs that attacked her while she was jogging Saturday near her home in Eustis. &quot;There was no other option.  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:07:37 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Weed eater used to fend off dog attack</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>DELAND, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Josh Swanson sat on his porch with friends Saturday night when a Pit Bull came into his fenced yard through an open gate. The dog started following his 14 month old Lab-Beagle mix, Lucy.



Swanson said the two looked like they were playing, until the pit started to attack his dog. &quot;My blood was pumping instantly. I was just like, I've got to save my dog,&quot; said Swanson.



He said he grabbed an aluminum push broom and took a few swings at the pit bull,  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 03:58:27 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Eight-year-old Jessie savaged by rottweiler while cleaning dog cages</title>
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			<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
			<description>Now hold on just a minute...the man should have known you don't let small children around dogs when they are strangers, and you don't let them around when they are eating...



Tony



THE father of an eight-year-old girl savaged by a rottweiler has lashed out at the dog's &quot;stupid&quot; owner, and says the dog should be destroyed. 



Jessie, 8, was helping her dad and uncle clean out cages and feed more than 20 rottweilers at a breeding farm at Snake Valley, near Ballarat, when she  ...</description>
			<category>Dog Attacks</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:03:45 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Preventing Dog Bites - www.doggonesafe.com</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:43:20 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Family dog dies after attack by loose pit bull</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>A Casselberry couple said their 8-year-old daschund is dead after a violent attack by a pit bull.



Gabe Quinones said his wife Ellen was walking their dog Spike at the corner of Griggs Avenue and Button Road at about 5 p.m. Thursday. A unknown pit bull, who was loose, lunged at Ellen and Spike. She tried to pull the pit bull off Spike, but it bit her. When a neighbor grabbed the pit bull by its choke collar and pulled it off Spike and Ellen, the pit bull ran away, Quinones said.



Despite  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:19:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Lake wants pit bulls that attacked jogger euthanized</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>TAVARES - Animal-control officials said today they will seek a court order to euthanize two pit bulls who attacked a jogger Saturday if the owners won't put the animals down.



The jogger, Tracy Whigham, 22, of Zellwood, suffered severe wounds to her right shoulder and left leg when bitten by the dogs about 4:30 p.m., according to a Lake County sheriff's report.



She was flown to Orlando Regional Medical Center, where an updated report of her condition was not immediately available today.



The  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:45:11 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Alameda woman hides dog bite, dies of infection</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>An 80-year-old Alameda woman died three days after she was bitten in the hand by a dog, authorities said Thursday.



Dolly Newell was walking her Rottweiler, named Lily, at about 1 p.m. Saturday on Bay Farm Island when another dog bit her finger, police Sgt. Don Owyang said.



Newell didn't report the bite because she didn't want the dog to be quarantined, investigators said. Instead, she told doctors at Alameda Hospital that she had injured herself while gardening.



A couple of days  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:33:52 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Pack of dogs maul 22-year-old Dixie County woman</title>
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			<dc:creator>Jill-K</dc:creator>
			<description>Bulldogs attack?



Jill



A pack of dogs mauled a 22-year-old developmentally delayed woman in Dixie County on Thursday afternoon. The woman survived the attack but was expected to undergo multiple surgeries to recover.



According to the Dixie County Sheriff’s Office, the attack happened in the 100 block of NE 835th St. in Old Town at about 4:30 p.m. A witness told deputies he saw the woman being attacked in the roadway by at least six dogs. The man said that before he could reach the  ...</description>
			<category>Dog Attacks</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:09:10 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Killer Stray Dogs Roam Italy</title>
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			<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
			<description>ROME -- A pack of stray dogs have killed two people, and attacked two more, while Italian authorities struggle to reign in the wild animals.



A 24-year-old German tourist and a 10-year-old boy were both attacked last week. The German woman remains in critical condition, while the little boy, of Italy, died after the dogs pulled him off his bike and viciously mauled him.



Earlier last week, in two separate incidents, the dogs bit, but did not kill, a 9-year-old boy and a 40-year-old man.



Without  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:45:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Toddler seriously injured by pit bull attack</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>The Associated Press  

CALLAWAY, Fla. — A toddler from northwest Florida is in serious condition at a hospital after being attacked by a pit bull.



Bay County authorities say 2-year-old Valencia Newton was taken to a Pensacola hospital with neck, throat, torso and ear injuries. She was attacked by a mixed pit bull Monday while with her baby sitter.



A passer-by saw the attack and began hitting the dog in the head with a piece of steel. The dog eventually released the child.



Charges  ...</description>
			<category>Dog Attacks</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:49:17 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Man arrested for shooting neighbor's dog</title>
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			<description>MARION COUNTY, Fla. - A Summerfield man is behind bars for severely injuring his neighbor’s dog after shooting the animal in the head.



Marion County Sheriff’s deputies said earlier this month, 52-year-old Michael St. Louis reported he shot a dog after it attacked him in his front yard. When officers arrived, the dog was found with a severe gunshot wound to its head.



Investigators determined that the dog was actually shot on its owner’s property and had not been loose. Deputies confronted  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:47:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Woman Shares Pitbull Horrors</title>
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			<description>DELAND, Fla. - On Friday, the woman who had to use a gun to kill her own dog while fending off an attack, spoke exclusively to FOX 35.  Melanie Young of Deltona said the dog's behavior was completely unexpected.  “I didn’t believe he would ever hurt me.. ever.”



Her son's pit bull mix, a dog in her care for nearly two years, turned on her. “That dog slept with me like a husband.  He went to car rides with me to the grocery store. We walked every single night.”



Young is now out of the  ...</description>
			<category>Dog Attacks</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:46:20 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Dog attacks prompt cities to look at pit bull bans</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>Hello.....it's my understanding you stick your head over a fence, and get bit, it's your fault....use your brains.....



Janet



MILWAUKEE (AP) - Jacqueline Sedlar and her 12-year-old daughter were walking home when the girl peered over a neighbor's fence and a pit bull took a chunk from her eyebrow. 



Outraged, Sedlar contacted her city councilman, who introduced an ordinance banning pit bulls. But the mayor vetoed the ban in favor of an alternative ``dangerous dog'' ordinance that  ...</description>
			<category>Dog Attacks</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:11:04 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Two Family Dogs Turn On 4-Year-Old University Place Girl</title>
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			<dc:creator>Nony</dc:creator>
			<description>And the dad was a registered sex offender?



Nony



UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. -- Two dogs were attempting to maul a 4-year-old girl while her father slept on the couch inside, said Detective Ed Troyer of the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.



The girl was playing in her University Place back yard Saturday when the family's two dogs knocked the girl down and attempted to maul her, Troyer said.



Neighbor Anthony Stone saw the attack and he and his father rushed to the girl.



“The  ...</description>
			<category>Dog Attacks</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:24:17 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Chicago boy, 4, dies after mauled by family's dog</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>CHICAGO (AP) - A 4-year-old boy in Chicago has died after he was mauled by his family's Rottweiler. 



Chicago Fire Department spokeswoman Eve Rodriguez says the boy was found Sunday afternoon in the backyard of his home in the city's Southwest Side. He was taken to Holy Cross Hospital, but died from his wounds by the time he arrived. 



She says the boy's family has more than one dog and that the Rottweiler has been taken away by the Chicago Department of Animal Care and Control. It was  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:06:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Girl Dies After Dog Attack In Beaver County</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- An 8-year-old Beaver County girl died Monday night after an apparent dog attack in Hanover Township.



Brianna Nicole Shanor, a second-grade student at South Side Elementary School, died shortly after 6:30 p.m. en route to The Medical Center, Beaver.



A state police detective from the Beaver barracks told Channel 4 Action News reporter Shannon Perrine that Shanor was injured at a home on Sutherin Road, where she was staying with two guardians.



The girl was  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:12:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Recent Portland-area attacks stir debate about breed-specific bans</title>
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			<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
			<description>A Humane Society official says laws targeting irresponsible owners would be more effective



Ann Ogan hadn't even taken office yet. But when the councilwoman-elect in North Plains suggested earlier this month that pit bulls should be banned in the Washington County town, calls and e-mails flooded City Hall. 



Ogan, intentionally or not, had touched a nerve. 



Violent attacks by pit bull terriers, including several high-profile cases in the Portland area in recent months, have roused  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:53:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>4 year old bit by dog</title>
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			<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
			<description>See what happens when you chain a dog? And the daycare provider will lose her license....Sharon



VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- A 4-year-old boy was hospitalized after he was attacked by a dog on Tuesday. It happened at a home daycare center off Yellowbird Avenue in Deltona. 



Parents like Mark Toney showed up worried to the home where his kids were Tuesday afternoon. “I don’t know whats going on I just got pulled off of work to see what’s going on,” said Toney.



He  ...</description>
			<category>Dog Attacks</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:39:55 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Rare felony charge filed against owner in pit-bull attack</title>
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			<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
			<description>The owner of two pit bulls that mauled a 72-year-old SeaTac woman in September is facing a rarely used felony charge of possession of a dangerous dog.



The owner of two pit bulls that mauled a 72-year-old SeaTac woman in September is facing a rarely used felony charge of possession of a dangerous dog.



Travis Cunningham, 36, also was charged Friday with one count of first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm and one count of possession of a stolen firearm. If convicted on all three  ...</description>
			<category>Dog Attacks</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:57:12 GMT</pubDate>
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