
Toddler receives 20 stitches after pitbull attack
A three year-old girl has 20 stitches in her face and almost lost an eye after being attacked by a pit-bull terrier in Wairoa.
A three year-old girl has 20 stitches in her face and almost lost an eye after being attacked by a pit-bull terrier in Wairoa.
The two pitbulls that nearly mauled a 5-year-old to death were well cared for and had played safely with children before, says the local council.
Two dogs which left a five-year-old BOP girl with "potentially life threatening injuries" have been destroyed.
A Bay of Plenty mother covered her five-year-old daughter's body with her own to stop a mauling by a pitbull and pitbull mastiff-cross.
Her eye had to be stitched open, her cheekbone was broken, several of her teeth were crushed and she has no feeling on the left side of her face.