Family's pet dog beaten to death
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A three-year-old boxer dog is found beaten to death and mutilated in Carnlough, County Antrim.
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He feigned a wounded look and, careful to avoid mentioning his opponent by name, asked why, of all his family members, his dog Fala was subject to campaign attacks.
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Dogs bred for the fighting pit have only one thing in their future: death. Fighting dogs may die in the ring or at their hands of their owners. If they are confiscated in a bust, they are almost always euthanized, experts say.
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Two pit bull dogs ripped off a man's left hand and badly mauled his right arm before other people were able to beat the dogs away.
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A 14-foot pet python crushed its owner to death, authorities said Tuesday after finding the snake loose in a southern Indiana shed with the man's body.
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Like most decent Americans, I have been sickened by the Michael Vick dogfighting debacle. There can be no excuse for torturing and abusing man's best friend -- forcing dogs to fight to the death, under penalty of death. That a high-profile athlete like Vick carried this out in the name of "sport" makes it all the more disgusting.
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RAISINVILLE TOWNSHIP, Michigan - Here is a dog with expensive taste: A pit bull ate its owner's $5,000 wedding ring before being made to throw it up again. Tina Burlett had thought someone broke into her house and stole the custom-made ring. But her grandmother suspected the family dog, Missy.
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An investigation is under way into the death of a five-month-old girl savaged by two dogs.
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A family's German shepherd dog could win the right to live after a three-and-a-half year legal battle.
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Two former golf club employees have been charged with theft and cruelty to animals in the death of a pet dog the owners say was cooked and eaten.
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A U.S. animal rights group Thursday condemned a plan to kill all pet dogs in an anti-rabies campaign in a district of the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing.
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A 30-year-old man was found dead, and his girlfriend was in critical condition in a case of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning. A mixed boxer dog also died.
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A military working dog wounded in Iraq during a rocket attack that killed its Marine handler was adopted Friday by the slain Marine's family.
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The fate of Michael Vick will be determined at sentencing later this year. The fate of the dogs, too violent to be let free around others, is all but sealed.
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A 65-year-old retired truck driver who was attacked by a vicious pit bulldog during a neighborhood walk choked the dog to death as he defended himself.
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A toddler dies after being attacked by a rottweiler in the yard at a relative's home, police say.
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The family of a four-year-old boy who was stabbed to death say they cannot believe what has happened.