Puppy mauls/kills 8 week old baby....

[Solja_Boy]

This just proves that Pugs are faroshous killers. This is a breed of dog that needs to be banned in the interest of public saftey.

[Inkpen (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Dymphna

The article says it happened INSIDE, which begs the question of where were the adults and how long were they gone?

Initial report said 3 adults were home .
This morning news update..baby inside...momma and grandmomma ASLEEP at other end of house and daddy and granddaddy left for work at 8 am and baby was fine.


The full story from Tulsa World

Detectives are continuing to investigate what led to his death.


Police on Tuesday identified the infant who was killed by a pet puppy, and detectives continue to investigate what led to the baby's death.

Two-month-old Zane Earles reportedly was killed by a black Labrador puppy at his home in the 2900 block of East 102nd Street, Officer Leland Ashley said.

The cause and manner of Zane's death remain pending, and it could be several weeks before all of the tests are conducted and a report is completed, state Medical Examiner's Office spokesman Randy Saffell said.

The mauling was discovered shortly after 10 a.m. Monday.

Police have declined to release details about Zane's injuries. They were significant enough that he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Initial reports indicate that the baby's mother, who is 17, and grandmother were sleeping in their bedrooms on the west side of the house and that the baby was in a baby swing in a dining room on the east side of the house, according to police.

Both the Lab puppy and another dog, a pug, were taken to the Tulsa Animal Shelter, where the Lab was euthanized at the request of Tulsa police. The pug was not euthanized, and officials have received several inquiries about its possible adoption, according to police.

The father of the baby told police that he left the home at 8 a.m., and the grandfather said he left at 8:30 a.m. They told investigators that the baby was fine when they left, Ashley said.

The preliminary reports do not specify where the dogs were in the house before the men left or whether they had been restrained.

"Right now the Child Crisis Unit is still conducting the investigation and still compiling reports," Ashley said Tuesday.

Family members have declined interviews and have not returned phone calls. Police have not identified them by name.

Zane was born May 28, police said. Newspaper birth listings show that a boy was born to Linzy Earles on that date at the Peggy V. Helmerich Women's Health Center at Hillcrest Medical Center. The hospital's Web site lists Zane's parents as Linzy E. and Tyler. The Web site did not include their last names.

A death notice lists the parents as Linzy Earles and Tyler Ogden.

Public records indicate that the home is owned by Stanley D. and Holly J. Earles, and court records list Linzy Earles as their daughter.

Police have been called to the home three times since May 2007, Ashley said police dispatch records show. In May and June of last year, police were dispatched there to investigate reports about a runaway.

In May of this year, they were called there to investigate an attempted first-degree burglary, but no arrests were made, Ashley said.

[Cowgirl]

WTF?! They euthanized the puppy? The 6 week old puppy?! How stupid.

[Pasofever (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Cowgirl

WTF?! They euthanized the puppy? The 6 week old puppy?! How stupid.

Yep who was probably playing with the boys dangling legs...boy kicked pup jumped and bit...not the pups fault I am sure he was playing...sad...

My kids used to lean over their play pen and teeth on my dobes ears..dogs would come and hang over the play pen to see the kids...and let them chew on them...Yeah put me in jail..

[workin hard]

Originally Posted by Cowgirl

WTF?! They euthanized the puppy? The 6 week old puppy?! How stupid.

Something about this story just doesn't add up.

[Inkpen (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Cowgirl

WTF?! They euthanized the puppy? The 6 week old puppy?! How stupid.

Dog kills a human, dog dies.
Not stupid...
think about it..puppy mauls baby..puppy has to be treated as evidence and to retrieve evidence..puppy is euthanized.

Who is going to adopt a dog that killed a baby?

[Lenny]

It's all going to come down to G'pa placing the baby in the wind-up swing and abandoning him to swing enticingly in front of a starving, vicious dog. That puppy might have licked the kids toes but maul him? I doubt it.

[Inkpen (Premo)]

Originally Posted by workin hard

Something about this story just doesn't add up.

I agree...who let leave an infant..8 weeks old , along in a swing?
Should have been asleep in its crib next to moms bed...

And WTF is mom doing sleeping at the other end of the house????

Something aint ok in Tulsa OK!!!

[kris31280 (Premo)]

... Who, with a 2 month old baby, is sleeping at 10 am if their child isn't sleeping in the very nearby vicinity?!?!?!

Seriously... I understand you're tired and that having a baby is hard work... but if my son was sleeping and I wasn't in the room or the very next room, his door was shut and the baby monitor on with me checking on him every 30 minutes!

[Cowgirl]

Originally Posted by Inkpen

Dog kills a human, dog dies.
Not stupid...
think about it..puppy mauls baby..puppy has to be treated as evidence and to retrieve evidence..puppy is euthanized.

Who is going to adopt a dog that killed a baby?

Ok, do you have much puppy experience? A 6 week old puppy is not being aggressive, it's playing. It's not hard for a puppy to kill a tiny baby....puppies have sharp teeth and love to chew on things.

This puppy wasn't being mean. It was being a puppy. There's no reason this puppy couldn't have been adopted out.