Two small children in Tennessee are dead after being mauled to death by the family's two pit bulls, according to police.

Around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, two pit bulls viciously attacked a 2-year-old girl, a 5-month-old boy, and their mother inside their home in Millington, Tennessee, according to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.

The toddler and the baby were pronounced dead at the home near Memphis.

The family's dogs also attacked the children's mother. She was rushed to Regional One in critical condition by Shelby County Fire paramedics. As of Thursday afternoon, the mother was upgraded to stable condition, according to detectives.

Marlo Matthews – a longtime dog-breeder – gave WREG-TV his opinion about pit bulls, "I know how loyal they can be. I know how loving they can be, but I also know how dangerous they can be."


https://www.theblaze.com/news/pit-bull-dog-attack-children-baby-killed

It happens all the time.

Yes,it does happen all the time. 68% of the fatal dog attacks in this country since 2005 have been from Pit-bulls and Pit-bull mix breeds.

here we continue to blame the breed without acknowledging that many of the same folks who own "bully" breeds couldnt train a lab or a poodle - or a [beeep] housecat - to be a solid family pet.

we have an entire industry that has to fool (mostly new) dog owners that the training classes they offer are "dog training" classes and not "human training on how to raise, train and keep a good family dog" classes, because if they were honest about it, nobody would sign up. because everyone "knows" how to train their dog. but nobody who gives their opinion on specific breeds will - rarely if ever - acknowledge this little tidbit.



people also love to throw that 68% statistic out there.. but when you consider the total amount of dog bites that happen (around 4.5 million per year, 885,000 that require medical attention, 334300 of which are ER visits) that the 68% accounts for ONLY 346 (out of 521 total fatal attacks over 15+ years) fatal attacks by pitbulls. thats not even a fraction of a fraction of 1%. 0.007688% to be exact or roughly 0.039% of the total annual dog bites that require medical attention.





yet the American vetinary medical association studies indicate that

additionally consider the following when discussing fatal attacks



i know i'll never convince you anti pit-bull folks of anything else. but hopefully a few people in the back are willing to consider something other than the raw data manipulation to show just how "dangerous" these dogs are, relatively speaking.

I thought the answer was going to have something to do with women

"She put her body on top of Lilly's to try and protect her after the attack started," Bennard's husband's uncle, Jeff Gibson, told USA Today. "Both [dogs] started attacking her while she lay on Lilly."

The Oct. 5 attack lasted 10 minutes.

That would be a long ten minutes.

Horrifying. I can't imagine going through that, and what she's going through now.

Things happen that changes lives forever. Things that can never be fixed. Things that visit at night.
Things that make you scream yourself awake. People deal with this stuff all the time.
A person needs to try to chose wisely the risks they take.
The experience could last the rest of your life.

Where is the "assault weapon " when you need one ?

I thought AR-15s

nicely inflated headline for the injury count, also dog breed unknown at this time.

Multiple headlines reported "2 pit bull mixes".

pardon me for using info from the link you shared and not googling the indicent further