Members of a Chesapeake community are on high alert after a 9 year-old boy and his mother were attacked by a neighbor’s out of control pit bull. A 4th grader and his mother were left bloodied, bitten, bruised and bewildered by the unprovoked attack, which occurred in the family’s backyard on Saturday. The boy’s father says his … Read more
A vicious dog attack in Newport News, Virginia, resulted in a young girl’s being sent to the hospital and receiving two hundred stitches in her head. According to the news report, the six-year-old girl was playing with friends when a neighbor’s pit bull got out of his home and attacked her; the girl was attacked … Read more
A supervisor in Carroll County, Virginia is drawing attention to the state’s dangerous dog registry. The supervisor’s advocacy comes on the heels of Carroll County’s unsuccessfully trying to pass a more restrictive dog ordinance in an effort to reduce dog bites. The supervisor stated that he was unsure if Carroll County was included on the … Read more
Wavy.com has a story on a set of proposed rules in Chesapeake, Virginia, that would limit the amount of time one could leave a dog tethered outdoors. According to the news outlet, Chesapeake City Council is considering passing new regulations that make it illegal to tether a dog unattended for more than an hour outside, … Read more
DogsBite.org, a dog bite victims’ group, has released 2013’s dog bite statistics—with a troubling rise reported in certain dog bite attacks. The 2013 statistics on fatal dog bites shows that there were 32 such deadly bites in the United States last year—and 78% of them came from pit bulls, in spite of the fact that … Read more
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