Attacked by a dog!

Dogs Attack Humans If you read this page, please say a prayer for the bereaved, who will never recover from these horrific events. If you hear of a dog attack, pl tell me! We need to create awareness. e-mail South Africa, July 2011 A three year old boy was mauled to death by a pack of dogs. The child was dragged out of his shack home by the four dogs, and killed. The community of Philippi, Cape Flats, are outraged. The child’s mother had gone to an outside toilet. Witnesses had thrown stones at the dogs to no avail. The dogs merely became more vicious.  The SPCA and police are investigating. There have been other vicious attacks by dogs in the area.In one incident, a five-year-old boy had to receive 16 stitches to his face after he was attacked by an unknown dog while eating peanuts in a Mitchell’s Plain street last week. Just a few weeks before Clayton Malgas’ attack, a disabled teenage boy had to undergo an operation after he was mauled. Damian Williams, 16, was bitten all over his face and body by pit bulls when he visited a friend in Mitchell’s Plain - the dogs, Xena and Zeus, were later put down. In another incident, two Rottweilers and three pit bulls ripped the skin off the face of Jonathan Wallace, 39, while he was trying to protect a woman and her children from the vicious canines. - Daily Voice South Africa Jan 09 Police were attacked by a pitbull while investigating a drug case. A police spokesman said that drug lords often let dogs loose to disctract the police while they flush the drugs down the toilet. Wakefield, UK. Dec 2007. Archie-Lee Andrew, a one-year-old boy, was mauled to death by a family pet  The boy was snatched from the arms of a 7 year-old girl by his grandparents' rottweiler. Police said the child then alerted the boy's 16-year-old aunt to the attack and she bravely attempted to wrestle Archie-Lee from the dog before contacting the emergency services. Armed officers attended the address within nine minutes of the emergency call. They found the Rottweiler in an agitated state, "clearly representing a potential danger to others", and the animal was destroyed. Detective Superintendent Steve Payne, said: "Our thoughts go out to the family at this tragic time. They are understandably devastated by what has happened and are being supported by specially trained officers." The boy who died was staying at his grandparents' house during the Christmas holidays. The dog was a two-and-a-half-year-old female rottweiler, which the family had owned for about six months.  The dog lived in the yard of the premises. It had interacted with members of the family including children, and another dog and cat at the house, and had showed no previous signs of aggression.  A 16-year-old girl, the aunt of the one-year-old boy, was inside the house also caring for two girls, aged six and seven. The parents of the child were on the scene within a matter of minutes and tended to the other children. Source - TimesOnline Hong Kong Dec 2007 A 14-month-old baby boy was savaged by a pack of 8 stray dogs as he played outside him home. The dogs mauled him, biting him on the head, arms, back and buttocks, police said. The boy's mother heard her son screaming, and chased the dogs away with the help of a passer-by. Dog catchers were later sent out to try to trap the mongrel dogs, which are thought to have attacked other children and villagers in the area in recent weeks. Hong Kong is home to more than 25 000 stray dogs. Many are used as unofficial guard dogs on construction sites, then abandoned when building works are finished. - Sapa-d Oct 2007. Malawi. A man had 6 male Rottweilers. He fed them himself and loved them dearly. Out of the blue they attacked him and killed him. No witnesses to the incident so we don't know what happened exactly. The frightening thing is his body was savagely mutilated. His eyes were gouged out, his ears chewed off, his left arms completely chewed off, chunks of flesh ripped off. The sons had to pick up body parts and flesh from all over the place. I have never heard of such a savage Rottie attack. The body was badly mutilated, looked more like a lion or bear attack. Dogs were shot dead. 11.01.07 Tzaneen: An 8 yr old boy was helping a farmer to pick mangoes about 500m from the house.  A boerboel bit him in the neck and killed him. The dog-owner was arrested. SAFM 1st Jan 2007 UK A five-year-old girl was savaged to death by a family pet on New Year’s Day. Ellie Lawrenson was mauled by a pitbull terrier while at her grandmother’s home in St Helens, Merseyside. The dog belonged to her uncle. Ellie’s grandmother, Jacqueline Simpson, 45. Mrs Simpson was charged with manslaughter by gross negligence and admitted she was partly responsible for the death because she let the dog inside the house. Liverpool Crown Court was told that Mrs Simpson, who had smoked ten cannabis joints and drank two bottles of wine before the fatal attack on Ellie, breached a family rule by allowing the dog near the little girl. Mrs Simpson, a former taxi driver, denies breaching the rule. Emergency crews called to the house in St Helens, Merseyside, discovered Ellie’s body with 72 injuries, and her grandmother lying in a foetal position. The dog, Reuben, was shot dead at the scene. THe floor was covered in blood. Speaking to the jury, the judge said: “The greatest sentence passed in this case is a life sentence of regret this lady has passed on herself.” The jury was told that Mrs Simpson was also charged with possession of heroin found in her home after police searched it in the aftermath of Ellie’s death. Neil Flewitt, QC, for the prosecution, said it was not in the public interest to pursue the charge. Referring to evidence from William Dinsdale, 70, that the pensioner had reported the pitbull terrier attacking him in May, 2006, the judge asked if police had investigated that complaint. Mr Justice Royce said: "It’s important for that to be investigated because if a report of an unlawful dog was ignored, it is a very unacceptable state of affairs." He added: "The CPS brought this prosecution on the basis that Jacqueline Simpson owed a duty of care towards her granddaughter Ellie. We said that she breached that duty of care by letting the dog into her house, knowing that it was potentially dangerous and capable of killing a child.  However, the jury by its verdict have accepted that, if there was a breach of her duty of care it was not such that it amounted to a crime.