Hector Marroquin was seriously injured in a horrific dog attack after a pack of pit bulls bit him.
According to a news report, the dog bite incident occurred the evening of January 7, 2014 in an alley near Clinton Avenue and Bond Street in Southeast Fresno.
Marroquin said he was locking up the gate to his carport in the alley when four pit bulls Continue reading →
David Armillie, a San Diego man, has reported that he and his dog were attacked by a loose pit bull as they walked home from a grocery store in the Grant Hill area. Armillie told Channel 10 that he was walking with his dog, Scutter, in the 200 block of 33rd Street on November 25, 2014, when a pit bull jumped over a fence and attacked them. The pit bull got Scutter in his jaw and Armillie had to free his dog from the pit bull’s strong hold.
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A 1-year-old boy identified as Kaidyn Sutton suffered severe facial injuries after a dog attacked him in a Riverside County park on November 14, 2014.
According to a news report in The Press-Enterprise, the incident occurred at Primrose Park in French Valley, an unincorporated area northeast of Murrieta. Kaidyn was with his mother and her friend when a 6-year-old Labrador mix Continue reading →
A toddler was severely injured in a Riverside County dog attack after his family’s pit bull attacked him and ripped off his ear.
According to a CBS Los Angeles news report, the dog attack occurred the morning of November 5, 2014 in the backyard of a home on Pontiac Avenue in Jurupa Valley.
The child, who is 18 months old, was Continue reading →
Two pit bulls escaped from their yard in a home in Santa Cruz County, attacked neighbors and injured a firefighter who was trying to help.
According to a KSBW news report, the dog attack occurred in the 8000 block of Glen Arbor Road in Ben Lomond.
Neighbors said they responded to a child’s scream and found Continue reading →
Juan Fernandez, 59, was killed in a dog attack in Modesto after a pack of pit bulls attacked him and his elderly mother, Maria.
According to a CBS news report, the dog attack occurred at his home on October 14, 2014.
Deputies said when they arrived, four dogs belonging to a neighbor were on top of the victim and had attacked him to the point that he was unresponsive and unconscious.
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A pit bull mix viciously attacked and mauled a pool cleaner in Riverside County.
According to a news report in the Los Angeles Times, the incident occurred on September 25, 2014 when the man was working at a home in the 4000 block of Sandia Creek Drive in the unincorporated De Luz neighborhood near Temecula.
The dog apparently walked up to the victim from behind and Continue reading →
At least two dog bite cases have been reported out of Riverside County just over the last few weeks.
According to a KABC news report, a 5-year-old boy in Thermal was bitten on his face and an arm by a German Shepherd mix.
The boy was apparently playing with other children and had converted a discarded weed eater box into a costume.
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A 7-year-old Riverside girl was hospitalized with serious injuries after a pit bull broke loose from its chain and attacked her.
According to a news report in The Press-Enterprise, the dog was tethered in an unfenced front yard in the 11400 block of Queensboro Street in Riverside the night of July 6, 2014 when the chain broke.
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A 4-year-old boy was injured in a dog attack involving his family’s pit bull.
According to a CBS Los Angeles news report, the incident occurred the afternoon of July 7, 2014 at a home in the 7600 block of Honeysuckle Street.
The dog jumped on the child biting his head and face.
Two off-duty LAPD officers who live in the area responded to help the boy’s mother get the dog off the child.
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