Dogs kept outside most of the time, day or night, chained up in the yard, are "bored" and "frustrated," according to a nonprofit organization that sponsors a campaign called Valentines-from-24/7-Outside-Dogs. And boredom and frustration is exactly the thing that can...
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Dog Bites & Animal Attacks
The pit bull as ‘dangerous weapon’
Prosecutors have offered the 28-year-old dog owner stark options: a plea deal that would have him pleading guilty to the felony of having a dangerous animal that caused serious injury, or face the more serious felony of assault with a dangerous weapon, among other...
Tips to prevent dog bites this Halloween
In anticipation of Halloween, CBS News in Dallas-Fort Worth gives us some tips on how to prevent a dog bite. Dog bites might be the greater threat, according to the report, than your kids getting overloaded on candy. Because dogs tend to be territorial, especially...
Dogs ‘bred to fight lions’ take center stage in neighborhood dispute
Told to either move away with their dogs or have the dogs taken away from them, Gary and Susan Kolb originally said they would move out. As neighbor Ron Barone said, "Why wouldn't you move to a farm up here? There's acres and acres and acres of land up here." But,...
Post-exposure rabies treatment in dog bite cases
One of the biggest challenges in dog bite cases is positively identifying the owner of the dog. If a dog bite occurs while inside someone's home or on that person's property, the problem becomes much easier to solve. But when the dog bite occurs in a park - such as...
Staples and Stitches After Bad Dog Attack in Odessa, TX
Shannon Murray's CBS 7 story describes a thin stray dog trotting up to an Odessa woman while she was taking out the trash in the morning. The woman, Bonne Anthony, could see its rib cage. She felt sorry for it. Thinking the animal hungry, she threw dog food. That's...
Pit Bull Busts out of Kennel, Mauls Grandmother to Death
As Denise A. Justin reports for Opposing Views, a woman died a "gruesome death" from an animal attack, as the police officer on the scene described it, when her granddaughter's pit bull broke out of its kennel and mauled the woman to death. It was supposed to be the...
Animal control policy changing in Fort Worth, TX
When the operators of animal shelters feel crunched, the trouble seems to fall on the animals, at least according to the Human Society, which, as Scott Nishimura reports for the Star-Telegram, is none too pleased about recent changes to animal control policy in Fort...
Another Pair of Rampaging Dogs Attack Five People and Kill a Cat
Two dogs escaped a yard in a Washington state neighborhood last week, injuring several people. Five people reported dog bites and the dogs also killed a cat. The dogs, a boxer and a pitbull terrier, had previous run-ins with the town's animal services division and...
Dogs kill family pet and threaten elderly woman
A south Texas neighborhood is frustrated by threatening behavior from a pair of pit bulls. The two dogs recently killed a neighbor's pet and charged at an older woman sitting on her porch. After the attack, neighbors fear similar dog bite incidents. This attack...