Victorville, CA –The family of a little girl was watching a pit bull for a neighbor when the dog mauled their daughter.  Hayleh Harger, 3-years-old, was flown to Loma Linda University Medical Center in serious condition on Easter Sunday.  She received 100 stitches and staples in her head.  Hayleh’s mother punched the dog in the face to get the pit bull to let go of her daughter.  The dog is being held at the Devore Animal Shelter.  It is unknown at this time if charges in the case will be …

Davis, CA –Animal Services officials are looking for a dog that bit a Davis man on Saturday afternoon.  The victim was walking his own dog on the sidewalk in the area of Albany and Concord Avenues.  The dog that bit the victim was also on a leash with a man, and they were walking towards the victim.  The dog was a medium brown and black German shepherd.  The man walking the dog was middle age, about six -feet tall, with brown hair.  When the two dogs were going to pass …

San Diego, CA – A 59-year-old letter carrier died on Sunday evening, from complications of a stroke she suffered after getting attacked by a pit bull.  Diane Jansen, a U. S. Postal Service employee for over five years, was making her normal delivery route last Thursday when the pit bull that was in a partially closed garage attacked her.  The attack occurred near the intersection of Carlann Lane and East Washington Avenue in Escondido.  The dog was not on a leash.  Paramedics treated her at the scene but she had …

Fort Worth, TX  –An 18-month-old boy will remain in foster care  a judge decided while he continues to recover from severe dog bites.  On January 30, while his parents were sleeping, Chance Walker Jr. got out of his playpen and into the yard.  Four dogs attacked him and he suffered serious wounds on his face and head.  His father, Chance Walker Sr., 25, and his mother, Patricia Walker, 23, were arrested on charges of injury to a child in the second degree.  The mother tested positive for meth the day …

Denver, CA –  A television news anchor was bitten in the face by a dog during a live morning broadcast.  The Argentine mastiff named Gladiator Maximus fell into a Lakewood lake while he was chasing a coyote and was rescued by a firefighter.  Due to the freezing conditions firefighter Tyler Sugaski put on a wetsuit to rescue the dog.  Kyle Dyer, the news anchor was doing an interview on the rescue with the firefighter and the dog was present.  Dyer was petting the dog when it lunged and bit her …