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September 2, 2010

Toddler recovering from dog attack

TheTimesTribune.com, Corbin, KY

CORBIN — By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer

Residents on Old Whitley Road, alongside I-75 southwest of Lily in Laurel County, are looking for a brown and white dog.

The dog, thought to be a Rottweiller-pit bull mix, about knee high, injured 18-month-old Landon Moore Tuesday.

About 1:30 p.m. that afternoon, Landon’s father, William Moore, was standing on the front porch and Landon was in the yard playing.

William explained, there was a “brown and white dog running around here. It was just running up and down the road, you know.”

The dog had been “out there, playing with him. It comes here a lot. We feed it and stuff and it’s not really a bad dog,” he added.

Then, things went bad. “I was out there watching (Landon) play and stuff, I turned around and I turned back around and the dog’s attacking him.”

“I was fixing my morning glories at the same time on the porch. I looked back up and that dog’s got him by his face, dragging just a little bit and I jump off that porch and run up and kick it.”

He continued, “I took Landon and ran to the van because he was bleeding. I had a T-shirt on and had his head in my shirt and he had blood everywhere. I took off in the van for the hospital.”

Landon was treated at Saint Joseph-London.

“He’s back to normal today,” William said.

“They stitched him, gave him 11 stitches,” he explained. The wounds were beneath the eyes and on the nose.

“I’ve seen worse.”

They were accompanied by bruising, said Laurel Deputy Sheriff Tim Smallwood, who investigated the case.

According to his brother, William said, the dog has come back to the area. Smallwood and other neighbors are keeping an eye out for the animal. “It ranks high when you’re dealing with a child and when you’re dealing with a dog that may have rabies,” Smallwood said.

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