HOW MANY CHILDREN HAVE TO DIE BEFORE THE NATION CHANGES LAWS REGARDING THE CHAINING OF DOGS?
Tenth Child in Six Months Seriously Injured/Killed as a Result of Chained Dog Attacks; 4th Attack This Month The 26 April 2004 attack is the latest in a long line of chained dog attacks, and is of a particularly gruesome nature: Emily Page Stinnett, a 4-year-old Kentucky girl is lucky to be alive after an attack by the family’s chained pit bull. She has somehow survived losing her scalp, which was found in the dog’s stomach and reattached at Louisville Children’s Hospital. Dogs Deserve Better, an organization working to get dogs off chains and into the family, insists that it@s time American woke up to the dangers of chaining a dog. Dogs are pack animals, and when left alone, chained, and unsocialized, they can become angry; they can and do take this anger out on the children who are unlucky enough to come too close. Three other April attacks by chained dogs left 14-month-old Linda Wiegret of Texas, 8-yr-old Mark Wilson of Illinois, and 4-yr-old Alani Black of North Carolina all seriou
