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Mother Explains Fatal Pit Bull Mauling


Sunday June 12, 2005 5:46 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The mother of a 12-year-old boy killed in his own
home by one of the family's two pit bulls says she had been so concerned
about one of the dogs that she shut her son in the basement to protect him.

Maureen Faibish said she ordered Nicholas to stay in the basement while
she did errands on June 3, the day he was attacked by one or both of the
dogs. She said she was worried about the male dog, Rex, who was acting
possessive because the female, Ella, was in heat.

``I put him down there, with a shovel on the door,'' Faibish said in an
interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. ``And I told him: `Stay down
there until I come back.' Typical Nicky, he wouldn't listen to me.''

Nicholas apparently found a way to open the basement door.

Despite her concerns about Rex that day, Faibish told the newspaper:

``My kids got along great with (the dogs). We were never seeing any kind
of violent tendencies.''

Faibish found her son's body in a bedroom. He was covered in blood from
several wounds, including a major head injury. No charges have been filed.

``It's Nicky's time to go,'' she said in the interview. ``When you're
born you're destined to go and this was his time.''

Ella was shot to death by a police officer the day of the attack. Rex
was taken to a shelter, but Faibish said she wanted him put down.
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