Pets

Hey, don’t look at us, we don’t look for these pit bull stories on purpose. If someone has a “pug mauling child” story they want to send our way, feel free.

A boy has undergone three hours of surgery and required more than 100 stitches to close bite wounds inflicted by a pit bull.

Sean Bajwa, 11, was playing at the playground at Cedar Hills elementary at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday when a pair of pit bull dogs came charging at him and at least one of them pounced.

Jordan Slezak, 20, who lives near the school, was chatting with his mom when suddenly they heard the boy screaming. Looking out of his house to see a dog tugging at Bajwa’s leg, Slezak grabbed a bat, leapt over the fence in his bare feet and beat the pit bull back. Slezak had to crack the dog twice over the head before it let go of the child.

We think we could definitely be described as “animal lovers”, but if our dog mauled our toddler we might have to reconsider the dog’s place in our home (if not on Earth). But Alicia Cottier, whose two-year-old son Noah Newbold was attacked by their mastiff-staffordshire, which left very bad scarring on his face and almost cost him sight in his left eye, is defending her mutt and putting the blame solely on the kid:

“People are telling me I should shoot the dog, and as much as I love my son to death, I believe Noah was annoying her. I love the dog and she’s part of the family,” Cottier said.

Noah is nursing a range of painful injuries after being bitten on Monday night at his home at Booral in the Hunter Valley…

As the child hugged and kissed the dog yesterday, Ms Cottier said the attack was not the dog’s fault.

“It’s not like the dog picked him up and shook him or anything, she just snapped at him for pulling on her ears,” she said.

The cat lead them to the scene of the crime, a stash hidden in a wall which contained kiddie porn.

Curiosity certainly found justice this time!

AUSTIN — Austin Police arrest a man for having kiddie porn, after a curious cat finds his secret stash of DVD’s.

Police say 24-year-old Luis Jimenez lived in the Hunterwood Apartments in South Austin until August of 2007. After Jimenez moved out of the apartment, a woman with a cat moved into the same apartment unit in September of 2007. Police say the cat was exploring his new home when it discovered a hidden gap between the pantry and ceiling in the kitchen.

Police say the cat’s owner then reached into the gap and found several DVD’s, which contained child pornography. She gave them to the apartment managers, who in turn contacted the Austin Police Department.

When will people ever learn? You CANNOT leave a dog alone with a baby - ever! Dogs are dogs. They’re not human and none can be entirely trusted, as they still have animal instincts and cannot intellectualize that babies are not stuffed animals.

It’s so tragic because it’s so preventable.

NEW YORK — A Doberman pinscher mauled and killed his owners’ 8-month-old boy on Thursday at their home in New York, police said.

The boy, Andrew Stein, was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later, police said.

Don’t they always say that deranged serial killers always start out with torturing animals?

The 12 month probationary supervision will do nothing to stop him from committing more serious acts of violence. Let this be a warning sign. This kid is sick.

A 15-year-old British boy has appeared in court for torturing his pet hamster.
The boy reportedly put the animal in a freezer, before tumble-drying it and then putting it in a washing machine where it finally drowned.

A necropsy was performed on the hamster and showed lesions on its feet as well as having torn claws.

Okay…why in the world do people leave infants and dogs unsupervised?????

This is so horrendous and awful. That poor little baby.

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Police are still looking into what exactly happened in a Waukegan apartment early Sunday morning when a dachshund chewed off the genitals of a 4-month-old boy.

Fire and police personnel arrived at 1:30 a.m. to the home on the city’s far southwest side and encountered the infant — who was bleeding profusely — and took him from the scene in a helicopter to a hospital.

The father of the boy told police he was visiting his girlfriend with his son when the infant fell asleep on a couch. The girlfriend had placed blankets around the child and the two went into another room to sleep.