Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

• Dog Bites North Carolina Child

  Shannon Weidemann | August 16, 2007 6:30 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A family pet bit a child in Four Oaks, North Carolina and the child needed to be hospitalized for the injury. It is unknown why the dog bit the child. The director of the local Animal Services office says that the bite was "pretty bad." No other details were immediately available about the age or condition of the child, who was attacked by a pet English bulldog, Wilkinson said. Wilkinson said...

• Proposed Legislations Will Reduce Child Drowning Deaths

  Claude Wyle | July 23, 2007 11:35 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  The mother of the 4-year-old boy who recently drowned in a Great America pool blames lifeguards for not spotting her son until it was too late to save him, but was not in the pool herself at the time of the drowning. Great America now requires all children less than 4 feet tall wear life jackets while in its pools. Will this new rule save lives? Or will it only provide a false sense of...

• Tulare County Dog on Loose After Biting Third Person

  Shannon Weidemann | May 12, 2007 11:50 AM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A dog in Tulare County is responsible for three dog bite incidents and remains on the loose after animal control officers could not locate him. Knuckles is part bull dog and part pit bull and has bitten three people on three different occasions. The first two times he was held for observation and his rabies vaccination was up to date. After the third incident on August 31, 2006 he could not...

• Postal Carriers Being Bitten by More Dogs

  Shannon Weidemann | April 05, 2007 12:43 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  Mail Carriers around the country are dealing with more and more dog attacks and bites. In the last 18 months alone 215 incidents involving aggressive dogs have been reported in the Sacramento District. 84 mail carriers have been bitten or attacked. April is traditionally the most dangerous time of year for postal carriers, because as the weather is generally pleasant, neither too hot or too...

• Dog Attack on Yarmouth Beach

  Rick Patterson | January 12, 2007 4:43 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  In the UK on January 7, 2007, a Norfolk man was walking his dog near Pleasure Beach. While he was walking, another man came towards him walking two bull terriers that were not on leashes. A viscious dog attack took place when one of the terriers attacked the Norfolk man's dog. The scene became increasingly worse when the owner of the dog being attacked tried to save his dog, causing him to be...

• Criminal Charges Loom for Dog Owner

  Susy Owen | January 14, 2008 3:38 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  After 7-year-old Ethan Westergard, was attacked by a pit bull mix, the owner told conflicting stories to authorities as to the dogs whereabouts. As a result, she now faces criminal charges. This case has also exposed shortcomings in the way animals are supposed to be quarantined for the purposes of rabies testing. Initally the owner said the dog was dead and buried. However, when authorities...

• Toddler Awarded $856K Due to Dog Attack

  Susy Owen | October 20, 2007 6:32 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Can you imagine taking your toddler to the beach on Mother's day only to have your baby attacked by a Rottweiler. It really makes you wonder what an adult is thinking to allow a Rottweiler to run free in public.The incident took place in Hawaii on Mother's day of 2005. The little boy, Keeton Manguso, was just 30 months old o weighed only 24 pounds at the time of the incident. He was bitten on...

• Dog Bites Woman in Iowa

  Shannon Weidemann | September 08, 2007 9:09 AM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A woman was walking in Iowa City on Saturday morning when she was attacked by a mixed breed dog. The woman suffered a dog bite on her leg. The victim described the dog as being either a German Shepherd or a Collie mix. According to police, a female pedestrian was walking in the 900 block of North Dodge Street when she passed an unidentified white woman who was walking two dogs around 9:20...

• Dog Is Shot Dead after He Attacks a Child

  Rick Patterson | June 08, 2007 10:36 AM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Certain dogs are known to be aggressive. In fact, many insurance companies will not insure a home if one or more of a list of dogs known to be aggressive are present in the home or on the property. As a rule, one dog you won't find on such a list is a Labrador, which is all the more reason that a story about an attack on a small child by a Labrador seems more than a little unusual. In this...

• Tips to Avoid Dog Bites

  Shannon Weidemann | May 31, 2007 10:52 AM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  National Dog Bite Prevention Week was last week and this is a great time to review some tips to avoid being biten by a dog. Common thought is that mail carriers are most at risk, but children are much more likely to receive a dog bite than any other group.  Don't run past a dog. The dog's natural instinct is to chase and catch prey.  If a dog is threatening, don't scream. Avoid eye...