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A man and a woman were seriously injured in a dog attack after their son’s shepherd-pit bull mix mauled them.

According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the dog bite incident occurred at a home in the 9900 block of Oakwood Circle the morning of April 8, 2014.

Orange County Sheriff’s officials said the rescue dog belonged to the couple’s son and had displayed “aggressive behavior” shortly after the son got it.

Authorities do not know what caused the dog to apparently attack the family.

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An 11-year-old boy suffered a severe mouth wound after a dog attack in Winchester the afternoon of March 29, 2014.

According to a news report in The Press-Enterprise, the boy was inside the den of a house on Stuber Street playing with friends when the dog lunged at him.

A first attack was blocked with a cue stick, but the 2-year-old female pit bull attacked again, biting the boy in the mouth. He suffered a severe lower lip injury.

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A 10-year-old girl, who was bitten by a dog while waiting for her school bus, had to undergo surgery for bite marks on her face. According to a CBS Los Angeles news report, the incident occurred the morning of February 19, 2014 at the corner of 7th Street and West Drive in Desert Hot Springs. The girl was bitten twice by a 2-year-old Huskie mix named Ollie as she petted him. The girl and her mother were familiar with the dog. As she petted the dog while waiting for her bus, the dog turned and bit her. The girl got stitches after the incident. It is not clear who owns the dog.
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A 3-year-old boy had to get 50 stitches after a dog attacked him when he was with a family member at a Lowe’s Home Improvement Center in Murrieta. According to a KABC news report, the incident, captured on the store’s surveillance video, occurred the morning of December 28, 2013. Police say the child was in the store with an adult family member while his father was shopping nearby at the store in the 24700 block of Madison Avenue. The dog, which was with its owner on a leash near the child, bit the boy in the head when he went to pet the dog.
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Lupe Rodriguez, 36, and her 7-year-old son, Robert, were injured in a dog attack in Victorville on November 13, 2013. According to a news report in the Victorville Daily Press, the dog bite incident occurred when Rodriguez and her three sons were heading back home after a trip to McDonald’s. Robert was walking with his Happy Meal in hand when a loose pit bull that was roaming the neighborhood bit his leg. When Rodriguez ran over to help her son, the dog turned on her and bit her left arm. Her two other sons and neighbors came to her rescue.
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A 26-year-old professional dog walker in Santa Monica was charged with child endangerment after a Staffordshire terrier bit a 4-year-old girl in the leg. According to a news report in the Los Angeles Times. Police say Rebecca McGroerty was walking with the dog inside a home in the 2300 block of 23rd Street on October 19, 2013 when she was attacked. She had to get stitches to close up the wound on her leg. Officials said the dog’s owner had given the dog walker instructions to always have the animal muzzled and on a leash. At the time of the attack, the dog was not muzzled and off leash.
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Police in Antioch are still searching for the owner of two pit bulls who they say attacked and injured four people. According to a news report in the San Jose Mercury News, police short and killed one of the attacking dogs and captured the other one. The dogs involved in the attack were either pit bulls or pit bull mixes. Police say the dogs attacked as a man was walking his two dogs on a trail near the 2700 block of Larkspur Drive the night of October 31, 2013.
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At least one child was injured in a San Bernardino dog attack after a pit bull attacked two children on a neighborhood street. According to an NBC news report, the dog bite incident occurred the afternoon of October 7, 2013 in the 2400 block of North Genevieve Street. The pit bull that escaped from its owner’s yard bit the child’s thigh when a neighbor shot and killed the dog. Animal control officers were called to the scene to investigate the dog attack.
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A woman in her 40s was seriously injured when she was attacked by pit bulls that escaped from a neighbor’s yard. According to a news report in The Press-Enterprise, the dog attack occurred the morning of August 12, 2013. The woman was walking her smaller dog in the 6600 block of 6th Street. The pit bulls apparently first went after the woman’s little dog and then attacked her as she picked up her dog. The pit bull tore off the right side of her face. She also had a gaping wound on her right arm, officials said. The dogs’ owner was cited and the dogs will be euthanized.
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A 2-year-old girl was injured in an animal attack incident at an Orange County cemetery after a coyote pounced on her and dragged her around the grounds. According to a CBS Los Angeles news report, Klarissa Barrera of Long Beach, was visiting a family member’s grave at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cypress on July 18, 2013 at Forest Lawn cemetery with her siblings and her mother, Michelle Luper, when the attack occurred. Her mother said the coyote dragged the child over headstones and that the girl’s nails were bent backwards from grabbing the ground.
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