Leicestershire : A young girl has died after being bitten by a dog
 

http://news.sky.com/story/1164347/do...r-being-bitten


Sad news

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[ A spokesman said: "We were called to a flat in Rowena Court in Mountsorrel at about 12.15pm following a report of a young girl being attacked by a dog, believed to be the family pet.
"She was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham where she has since died."]

That's awful poor girl, wonder why it turned?

i wonder what type of dog it was...

Its rare
must have been a reason
we will find out more later

r.i.p...

no life should be lost that young.

I wonder...

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The animal that attacked four-year-old Lexi Hudson in Leicestershire is believed to have been a family pet.


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This is now confirmed as the Dog that was
attacking the child

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It is not known if this was the dog that attacked her

that dog is a French Mastif

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**** sake look at the size of it, it's face reminds me of Jabba the Hutt for some reason

Poor little girl RIP.

Look at the size of that dog, it's head is absolutely massive.

Good god! that poor child.

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This Rushed front page
did not have the Dog that killed her

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this was the Dog , infact

..it was a rescue dog, they said on BBC news this morning that the family had only had the dog for a few weeks and it was killed by her mum, who was trying to stop the attack..this is so incredibly tragic...

that is the ugliest dog i have ever seen.

Yes she stabbed it to Death.


Dogs and Children
need to be watched
if its a new dog.

What a terrible tragedy. Apparently the little girl should have been in school but was home as she was ill. The dog had apparently rehomed recently and the staff at the home said he was safe, but just the sheer size of him next to the little girl in that picture makes you wonder what they and her parents were thinking, the news report also said they were in a flat :conf: is a flat really the sort of place you could have a dog of this size.

That's a good question cherie, adult dog/kids/flat not a great combination.
Her mum seems to have fought hard to save her, I can't imagine having to go through that..or how she will function afterwards.

I wouldn't let my kids walk past that thing let alone invite it into my house to live!

I can't imagine what that mother must have seen or how she now feels. :(

RIP little angel

No way should a dog that size be confined to a flat, you make some really strong points and if it was only a recent addition to the home then a great deal more supervision should have been done.

I agree Joey,who would take a dog like that when you have small children and in a flat!! Surely with a rescue dog,you don't know it's full background,so you'de err on the side of caution ,and although it's big and some say ugly,that doesn't make it a 'bad' dog,who knows what sparked that off,it could have been anything that triggered something in it's past,this is a tragedy all round,that poor kid didn't stand a chance ,the dog should have at least been vetted and not let go to a family living in a flat,the place was strange to the dog,we don't know what happened,We have a rescue dog who, at the slight sight of a hoover bolts into the garden,so we presume something in it's past triggers that,people really should be more careful when picking pets.

I think if you have small children you should not have pets. It can be dangerous.

I think a lot of the time ,it's the owners that need to be looked at,I have two dogs and small children,it's just a matter of common sense and training,I think pets can be very beneficial to children,they can teach them how to care.

It's ridiculous keeping a dog of that size in an apartment and even more so because he's a rescue dog and they (obviously) couldn't know him well enough to know his temperament properly. I feel really sorry for the parents of this child don't get me wrong but people need to be very careful when getting breeds of dogs like these, especially when they have children. There should be responsibility on the animal shelters part as well when rehoming dangerous breeds like this one

Do we even know the size of the flat? Everyone assuming it is small. Looks like the have quite a big garden in the pictures and the building behind her in those pics looks quite big.

I don't think the size of the flat is as relevant to the story as the size of the dog compared to the child!

Yeah, the dog is huge and looks scary as ****. I'd be scared to be around it myself, let alone a small, fragile child.