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Two young children are dead and their mother suffered major injuries after two family dogs attacked a baby and toddler outside their West Tennessee home.Kirstie Bennard, 30, suffered critical injuries when she tried to intervene in the attack on her 5-month-old boy, Hollace Dean, and 2-year-old girl, Lilly Jane, family and police said.
"She put her body on top of Lilly’s to try and protect her after the attack started," Bennard's uncle by marriage, Jeff Gibson told USA TODAY on Saturday. "Both (dogs) started attacking her while she lay on Lilly."The two children were pronounced dead when officials arrived at the home, the sheriff's office reported.
It was not immediately known what provoked the mauling.The mauling, Gibson said, lasted about 10 minutes.The dogs – two pit bulls that belonged to the family – were euthanized at Memphis Animal Services Thursday.
The family owned the pets, Cheech and Mia, for more than eight years without a violent incident, Kelsey Canfield, the mother's best friend, told Fox News.
"I can promise you those children were her world, and if there was any inkling of danger, she would have never had those dogs near her kids," Canfield told the outlet. "Those children were everything to them, and they just have a really long journey ahead."
How do you feel about PittBull's? I posted this because my wife shared this story with me and my son was just recently participating in a "read to sheltered dogs" event where you could adopt a dog (I know brilliant).
I've heard the arguments that PittBull's get a bad wrap, but it seems time and time again they are the focal point of dogs who do these horrible acts. [Reply]
It's not safe to put mail in mailboxes where I live now. We have to go to the post office to mail anything if you don't want that mail to be stolen. [Reply]
"I served my country...I took an oath!" is obviously tongue-in-cheek, and I appreciate the self deprecation. BD and Fran could use a little of that themselves. Would be a lot cooler.
Hating on the board's resident mailman is a fool's errand. What is this world coming to?!
Originally Posted by Bump:
I grew up with a doberman too, great dog. A lot of bark and no bite, which is what you want. Scared many people away that drove up to the house for whatever reason. Had two doberman's actually, sisters. But they chased our horses once and the horse killed one of them :-)
Horses are a dangerous breed. You shouldn't have horses in your house. [Reply]
