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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 wazu:
Hammock's adventures trying to perform the simple act of walking his dog are almost worth having a YouTube show. Some kind of go-pro type set-up to start and go from there.
Honestly hasn't been much of an issue until I changed routes. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pablo:
If the shitbull is rendered defenseless from the bear spray it's your duty to take the murderer off the street by whatever means necessary.
Originally Posted by Mephistopheles Janx:
Took a minute but you got there. This is an appropriate tool for your situation.
Did you actually order the stick?
Know which way the wind blows is all I can say. Also many municipalities bear spray is illegal, and nothing stronger than red pepper spray. Have no idea if KC or even JaCo allows it.
Midwest USA has a sale on walking cane swords. Run that bitch through!
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
Cane sword is a terrible idea. I actually own one. But that takes two hands to extract the blade. I need to keep one hand on the leash.
I would think the unsheathing hand could handle both. Still though, if it can't then wearing a normal sword on a belt with a scabbard would work. Added benefit of nobody coming near you. [Reply]
