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Newborn Baby Fatally Bitten By Dog

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McKEESPORT, Pa. -- A baby who was born earlier this week died on Thursday morning after being badly bitten by a dog at home in McKeesport.

Channel 4 Action News' Sheldon Ingram reported that the infant -- who was just born on Monday -- was bitten in the head on Scott Street at about 9:30 a.m.

McKeesport police said the mother had been in another room when she went into the living room and saw the dog hovering over her baby, then noticed the newborn's head injuries.

Police said the mother removed the dog and called them. The baby was taken to UPMC McKeesport, and then to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, before being pronounced dead.
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Police have removed two of the family's four dogs from the home, Ingram reported.
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Huh. Was the baby on the floor? Did the dog jump up to get the baby? Was the dog trying to take the baby to mommy?
 
Must not have been a pitbull or we'd be hearing about it already.

Four dogs? And how many kids already? Is this their first?
 
Newborn Baby Fatally Bitten By Dog
Howard Nicholson Dies From Husky Bite In McKeesport
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Channel 4 Action News' Sheldon Ingram reported that the infant -- just 2 days old -- was bitten in the head on Scott Street at about 9:30 a.m.
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Police said the mother removed the dog from the house and called them.
A neighbor told Ingram that he saw the mother screaming on her porch while she was on the phone, and he later saw paramedics take the baby away.
The baby first went to UPMC McKeesport, then to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, before being pronounced dead. He was identified as Howard Nicholson.
Allegheny County homicide detectives have been called to investigate. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday morning.
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As I've mentioned before, we got two Husky pups in December. I have read that they are super predatory, and even after getting along with family cats for years, can still decide to catch and kill them. I wonder if it just thought of the baby as an intruder.
 
Bohring said:
As I've mentioned before, we got two Husky pups in December. I have read that they are super predatory, and even after getting along with family cats for years, can still decide to catch and kill them. I wonder if it just thought of the baby as an intruder.
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We had ours 15 years and I really watched b/c I had always heard that about them but she was a sucky
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Here she is with her BF Wolfie
 
Aw, thanks for sharing the pic [MENTION=1346]Whisper[/MENTION]! I remember you had talked about having one for so long.

We have littermates, a brother and sister. The boy is such a sweet little boy, but that girl is a feisty bitch man. She is the instigator, the bully, the predator, man, she is a little beast. I fear if any family cats are to be gotten, it'll be her that gets them.

If I could figure out how to post a pic of the beasties, I would. Don't I have to make it small or resize it or something?
 
I had a Husky/German Shepard mix and that was the love of my life. Loved him more then I do my husband. We had to put him to sleep after being struck by a car and left pretty badly injured. Sweet as pie....but I always treated him like a dog, not a family member.

The moment people forget that their "family member" is a dog, shit like this tends to happen. Don't let your guard down just because you love them...We read about actual human beings going ape shit, why is it so hard for people to accept these creatures have animal instintcs
 
Mybabiesmomma said:
I had a Husky/German Shepard mix and that was the love of my life. Loved him more then I do my husband. We had to put him to sleep after being struck by a car and left pretty badly injured. Sweet as pie....but I always treated him like a dog, not a family member.

The moment people forget that their "family member" is a dog, shit like this tends to happen. Don't let your guard down just because you love them...We read about actual human beings going ape shit, why is it so hard for people to accept these creatures have animal instintcs
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Princess had both front legs busted,ribs busted half her tail missing and her ear cartlidge busted from being twisted all by some cunt
She was my first foster and we kept her
she had been in vets for a full year recouping
(hubby announced after 1 hour of having her she was ours)
She got congestive heart failure and I never cried so hard in my life as when she died
Poor vet and techs had customers walking in and walking out bawling
Techs were crying
I was a mess when she went and my best friend died 1 hour later of breast cancer,shitty day
 
My Logan died in my arms. Whisper I never understood pet owners and their crazy love for their animals until my Logan. It's been almost 13 years and I still mourn my Logan. When we had to make that dreadful decision to let him go, my husband and I stayed with him. He would growl at the techs when he thought they were approaching him, he was in so much pain. But when we would walk up to him, he would pick his head up and just whine....tore my soul out.

Needless to say, I bawled like a baby. We both did. Cried so hard the Vet had to console us. They were wonderful. He gave us a choice of getting his ashes and gave us a great idea on what to do with it. We sprinkled his ashes by the Lemon Tree that sits in my Mother n laws property. They both are gone and that is how we honor them...

Now I am fucking crying...
 
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Now I am fucking crying...
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I was too when I posted about Princess,we didnt name her the vet that looked after her for the year did and we didnt wanna screw her up even more and change it
We held her as she died,not fair to have all that time then send off alone
We have her ashs on the fireplace she loved to lay by
Vet knew my best friend was dying and I had been between her bedside and Princess bringing her in and trying to save her a biot longer
 
These gd Pitbulls. Always killing children. Ban the breed and kill em off! Oops we are talking about a husky. My bad. :P
 
Tundratot said:
Must not have been a pitbull or we'd be hearing about it already.

Four dogs? And how many kids already? Is this their first?
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Looks like one of the dogs was a pitbull but not the one that bit the baby.

Police removed the 18-month-old Husky, Niko, and a pit bull from the home on Thursday.Channel 4 Action News' Sheldon Ingram reported that Niko has a broken leg and was wearing what appeared to be a homemade contraption.

According to the city ordinance, a household in McKeesport can have up to two dogs in it, but there were four dogs living at the home where Nicholson was bitten."The pit bull gave us a little trouble. We actually had to chase that dog upstairs to corner it," said dog law enforcement officer Kenneth Ferree.Animal Control in McKeesport said the baby's mother has been cited in the past for having an excessive number of dogs in her house, and was also cited for the condition of the dogs.
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Doesn't sound like this woman was preparing well to bring her newborn baby home. Cited for excessive number of dogs and for the condition of the dogs. Makes you think what kind of care she'd give her baby if she didn't mind her dogs very well. . . well, clearly she didn't know much about dogs and babies in the same space.

Really tragic. Rest in peace baby Howard Nicholson.​
 
Rest in Peace, sweet lil' baby boy... You are safe now.

this is a senseless tragedy. One that as it was stated before, preventable if the mom hadn't let her guard down.

We have a chihuahua-pug mix that weighs about 8lbs. She's 5yrs old and she's a rescue. I always warn people when they go 'oh what a cute puppy' not to touch. If she doesn't know you, she just might nip you. She has only done it in the past (that we know of) when she was overwhelmed. She does get overwhelmed easily but she also has her 'tells', her warning signs. Normally when I see her signs, I pick her up and I hold her close to me. She feels safer there. Children are very quick to run to her and try to pet, and I tell them please do not touch her. Most times, they listen and back up. Since some of them don't listen, I've become proficient at scooping her up and out of their reach. I'm not risking her biting somebody's kid just because the kid wasn't taught to listen and respect other people's rules concerning their own pets. Hubby and I were at PetSmart last weekend because we got puppyface groomed. On the way out, one lil' girl about 8yrs old said "OH what a CUTE puppy!!!" and started toward our Kyrie. I immediately said "Do not touch her, she might bite you." The lil' girl looked at her mom and said 'She won't let me pet her puppy!!!!'. The mother told her that she couldn't pet my dog because she might bite. She (the mom) thanked me for warning them. The lil' girl wasn't real happy about this, but mom was because I had the foresight to warn her and the lil' girl. Now... Kyrie is usually ok, but she'd just come back from the groomers, where she was cooped up with other dogs, that she was unfamiliar with. She was looking like she was overwhelmed. When we picked her up, she leapt out of the groomers arms and landed in mine and tried to climb inside my coat. She didn't want to be bothered with anyone. There have been times that parents side with the children and call me 'mean old lady' because I won't let her precious offspring pet my dog. Well, I'd rather be a 'mean old lady' than a very heart broken old lady because my dog had to be put down due to some parent thinking their child was a special snowflake and the rules don't apply to their precious child. :(:(:(:(


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Dog In Baby's Biting Death Gets New Home

McKEESPORT, Pa. -- An 18-month-old Husky police said fatally bit a baby in McKeesport has been given a new home.
"A terrible tragedy, a baby died. It doesn't get any worse than that," said the dog's new owner, Bill Uhring. "But then we heard the story that the dog was adopted a few weeks back (and had) a broken leg. It wasn't this dog's fault."
The dog, Niko, was removed from the home on Scott Street, along with a pit bull, after police said it bit 2-day-old Howard Nicholson in the head Feb. 16.
McKeesport police said the boy's mother had been in another room when she went into the living room and saw the Husky hovering over her baby, then noticed the newborn's head injuries.
District Attorney Stephen Zappala told Channel 4 Action News the mother will not be charged.
Channel 4 Action News' Sheldon Ingram reported that Niko has a broken leg and was wearing what appeared to be a homemade contraption at the time.
Uhring said he was told by the owner that the leg contraption was applied by a veterinarian, but he's not so sure.
"(The owner) couldn't show us receipts or names or anything like that," he said.
Uhring has since made sure the dog got an appropriate cast.
McKeesport Animal Control said Uhring paid more than $600 to have the Husky and a second dog -- a pit bull -- released.
Both dogs were removed from the home because, according to the city ordinance, a household in McKeesport can have up to two dogs in it, but there were four dogs living at the home where Nicholson was bitten.
"The dog catcher said (Niko) was at the bottom of the feeding chain, as far as feeding goes, so it was inevitable that it was going to happen," said Uhring.
The pit bull went back to its home on Scott Street, but Uhring decided to keep the Husky and give the dog a new name, Helo, for a new beginning.
"The dog was put in a situation that it shouldn't have been in, as was the baby. And we thought, the dog doesn't need to die," said Uhring.
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Whisper said:
Dog In Baby's Biting Death Gets New Home


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You know it pisses me off the mother walks away. Not only should she be hit with child endangerment (at the very least by having so many dogs and leaving them unsupervised with the baby) She should be cited for cruelty to animals. That animal had a broken leg and wasn't properly being taken care of.

This woman is stupid. Any dog, no matter how nice can bite. My mom's always had little dogs (Shi-tzu, Lapso Apso's) and they are worse about biting then most bigger dogs. They are smaller dogs so even a child appears large to them and they can find that threating so they will nip.

My dog is a beautiful German Shepard. He is great with the kids. He was only 2 when Mikey came into the picture so still young but a little older then the Husky in this story. Even though Bear is generally great with kids and even though Bear has never bit anyone we never ever left him alone in any room with the babies. My fiance was adament because you hear all the time about good dogs suddendly going after a baby. Neither of us believe Bear dog would ever hurt any of the kids. He is a good dog ....that said, better safe then sorry in our book. Like another poster said above.....he's still a dog and he still has animal instincts. Yes he is a great guard dog, yes he is protective of my kids, yes German Shepards are common family pets, but people have to remember my dog no matter how well trained has the ability to inflict serious damage.

German Shepards have one of the strongest bites in the dog family. Not just jaw strength but the bite force. GS have a greater bite force then that of an American Pitt Bull according to a study by National Geographic. Yes my "harmless" GS could do serious damage. People don't really ever see them that way. Just like a Husky "is harmless" until it snaps. From what I understand the Husky's have a similar bite force as the German Shepard in strength. These are beautiful, usually friendly dogs and people forget they can be deadly.

Though I will say it's cute that Bear is protective. I was play wrestling with my 8 year old one day and I was pretending to do the WWE chest slap on him and the dog growled at me before getting in the middle. I was like whoa......then out of curiousity I did the same move to my older child and again he stopped me. He is protective of his family and have no doubt he would defend these kiddos against anyone who tried to hurt them. See he is a good dog too but you never know what action would trigger a fatal reaction from him. Don't be fooled by his loving, goofy demenor, Bear dog could kick your ass if he wanted too.
 
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What a horrible thing. It was grossly irresponsible of the mother to walk out of the room with the dogs there, especially when the dogs are just getting used to the baby. Part of me wants to sympathize because I know most of us who aren't perfect have absent-mindedly slipped and done something that probably endangered a child in one way or another but the other part of me doesn't because it seems like such a basic rule, especially with such a new baby. That doesn't make it any less irresponsible or okay though.

I wonder if they'll end up bringing charges against the mother and if so, for what.
 
We had a dominant husky mix. He nipped at me one day. He was at the vet's about 20 - 40 minutes later to be put down, but the vet begged me to let him neuter the dog and give it another go (I had 3 small children). I don't know how I was talked into it, but I said okay. Best dog we ever owned. Had him for 15 years. The cat and he were BFFs. The dog would follow the children everywhere they went, just running cirlces around them, herding them in.

No one should have 4 dogs unless they live on a farm. All animals, dogs, cats, rabbits, etc.. need to be spayed or neutered before being adopted. Almost all of these attacks happen with unaltered animals.
 
Cassy said:
No one should have 4 dogs unless they live on a farm.
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Why not? My vet has 5 dogs and they're all well taken care of. I have 4 dogs and they're all well taken care of. The men that own a business next to my old office own 6 dogs (they adopted a pregnant dog and she had puppies, they couldn't bear to separate them) and those dogs are treated like spoiled children.

Good grief, that's like saying no one should ever have 4 kids.
 
Cassy said:
We had a dominant husky mix. He nipped at me one day. He was at the vet's about 20 - 40 minutes later to be put down, but the vet begged me to let him neuter the dog and give it another go (I had 3 small children). I don't know how I was talked into it, but I said okay. Best dog we ever owned. Had him for 15 years. The cat and he were BFFs. The dog would follow the children everywhere they went, just running cirlces around them, herding them in.

No one should have 4 dogs unless they live on a farm. All animals, dogs, cats, rabbits, etc.. need to be spayed or neutered before being adopted. Almost all of these attacks happen with unaltered animals.
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That's an excellent point. Dogs calm down a lot after being neutured. Bear was a lot more frisky before he had his done. It's funny your dog and cat are friends....mine are too. My cat is usually the one to mess with the dog but Bear doesn't seem to mind the banter. My kitty thinks he is a tiger.
 
Cassy said:
We had a dominant husky mix. He nipped at me one day. He was at the vet's about 20 - 40 minutes later to be put down, but the vet begged me to let him neuter the dog and give it another go (I had 3 small children). I don't know how I was talked into it, but I said okay. Best dog we ever owned. Had him for 15 years. The cat and he were BFFs. The dog would follow the children everywhere they went, just running cirlces around them, herding them in.

No one should have 4 dogs unless they live on a farm. All animals, dogs, cats, rabbits, etc.. need to be spayed or neutered before being adopted. Almost all of these attacks happen with unaltered animals.
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Meh, we've had several dog shot by neighbors who're both fixed and lived on farms, woods.
 
The pit bull went back to its home on Scott Street
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So did she get rid of one of the other dogs so she could have the pit back?


Absolutely horrific story. That poor baby boy. When my son was born, I'd had my dog for around 8yrs. He was a rescue, and was 15mths old when I got him and he was.......'disturbed'. He settled in really well and calmed down, and was VERY protective of me and of my eldest son, but no way in hell would I have EVER left him in the room with a baby. I very much doubt he would have done anything, but........

Who takes that chance? It's too late once your baby is dead from a dog bite. It's just so heartbreaking to think of that tiny, defenceless baby, just 2 days old, being bitten on the head and killed. That woman was incredibly stupid and incredibly negligent to have those dogs in there with the baby, especially when she was out of the room. Buy a damn dog gate, for crying out loud.

RIP baby Howard.
 
Dog In Baby's Biting Death Seized From New Owner

McKEESPORT, Pa. -- An 18-month-old Husky that police said fatally bit a baby in McKeesport has been taken into custody by a state dog warden, one day after Channel 4 Action News spoke with a man who became the dog's new owner after paying $600 to have it released.
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On Thursday, one week after the incident, a court order was executed to seize the dog from the Churchill home of its new owner.
According to the court order, if the Husky's original owner is found guilty of a Dangerous Dog Law violation, or if 10 days pass without the owner filing an appeal, the dog can be put down.
If an appeal is filed, the Husky can still be destroyed if the appeal is denied or the dog's owner is found guilty of a violation.
An investigation by the office of Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala is ongoing, but the boy's mother is not expected to face charges.
Zappala previously told Channel 4 Action News, "It looks as if it was a very tragic accident."
McKeesport police said the boy's mother had been in another room when she went into the living room and saw the Husky hovering over her baby, then noticed the newborn's head injuries.
McKeesport Animal Control said Nikko's new owner, Bill Uhring, paid more than $600 to have the Husky and pit bull released.
"A terrible tragedy, a baby died. It doesn't get any worse than that," Uhring told Channel 4 Action News' Sheldon Ingram on Wednesday. "But then we heard the story that the dog was adopted a few weeks back (and had) a broken leg. It wasn't this dog's fault."
The pit bull went back to the home on Scott Street, but Uhring decided to keep Nikko and give the dog a new name, Halo.
"The dog was put in a situation that it shouldn't have been in, as was the baby. And we thought, the dog doesn't need to die," said Uhring.
Both dogs were removed from the home because, according to the city ordinance, a household in McKeesport can have up to two dogs in it, but there were four dogs living at the home where Nicholson was bitten.
"The dog catcher said (Nikko) was at the bottom of the feeding chain, as far as feeding goes, so it was inevitable that it was going to happen," said Uhring.
Ingram reported that Nikko has a broken leg and was wearing what appeared to be a homemade contraption at the time of the baby's death.
Uhring said he was told by the owner that the leg contraption was applied by a veterinarian, but he's not so sure.
"(The owner) couldn't show us receipts or names or anything like that," he said.
Uhring since made sure the dog got an appropriate cast.
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Wait - seized from the new owner? What? Why? To test the dog for rabies? That's about the only thing I can think. Or did I miss somewhere that said they are going to put the dog down because of the prior incident? Huh?
 
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Wait - seized from the new owner? What? Why? To test the dog for rabies? That's about the only thing I can think. Or did I miss somewhere that said they are going to put the dog down because of the prior incident? Huh?
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looks like it

According to the court order, if the Husky's original owner is found guilty of a Dangerous Dog Law violation, or if 10 days pass without the owner filing an appeal, the dog can be put down.
If an appeal is filed, the Husky can still be destroyed if the appeal is denied or the dog's owner is found guilty of a violation
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According to the court order, if the Husky's original owner is found guilty of a Dangerous Dog Law violation, or if 10 days pass without the owner filing an appeal, the dog can be put down.

If an appeal is filed, the Husky can still be destroyed if the appeal is denied or the dog's owner is found guilty of a violation.

An investigation by the office of Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala is ongoing, but the boy's mother is not expected to face charges.
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But she's not facing charges, so why put the dog down? Or does that mean she is not facing charges for the death of the baby, but could still be facing charges for having a 'dangerous dog'? Will the guy who bailed the dog out get his money back?



''But then we heard the story that the dog was adopted a few weeks back (and had) a broken leg. It wasn't this dog's fault''.
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The woman had only had the dog 'a few weeks', and the dog was an 18mth old rescue dog. And she still thought it was ok to leave the dog with the tiny baby. And if she already had 3 dogs, why get another one just a couple of weeks before she gives birth? Surely she had enough on her plate already!
 
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