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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]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
I don't have a problem with it. I have a problem with pitbulls. And it ain't based on race or owner.
That's the thing - it's not that the dogs shouldn't be allowed to be sold or owned. It's that certain people shouldn't be allowed to own them.
Two houses down there's a ghetto chick that's a real POS. Of course she's got a pit bull that she neglects and will eventually hurt someone and get put down because of her dumb ass. Her kids will end up in jail. You can watch the results of her shit decisions play out in slow motion. A day or two a week we feel so bad for the dog we put food out for it.
My point is that people who aren't allowed to own guns due to their own stupidity shouldn't be allowed to own large breed dogs either. I don't have to worry about her firearm escaping over the fence and attacking my grandkids... [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pepe Silvia:
Years ago I would have agreed with you but we are heading into dangerous times, eventually you will need one of these bad boys as a guard dog.
Or you could gift a couple of them to your enemy as a peace offering then just wait for the carnage. [Reply]
