{"id":18000,"date":"2012-11-12T16:25:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18000"},"modified":"2012-11-12T16:25:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:25:43","slug":"young-boy-fights-off-pit-bulls-to-save-5-year-old-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18000","title":{"rendered":"Young Boy Fights Off Pit Bulls To Save 5-Year-Old Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN, GA &#8212; <strong>Maleik Carr<\/strong> didn\u2019t hesitate to act when he and his little sister were confronted by unleashed pit bulls on their way to the bus stop.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs had escaped through a neighbor\u2019s broken fence as the pair of Dublin, Georgia siblings walked across their backyard Monday morning. As soon as they became aggressive and started snapping at his five-year-old sister, <strong>Jalia, Maleik<\/strong>, 11, stepped in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ran over there and started kicking them away from her, and they bit me. And I told <strong>Jalia<\/strong> to run.\u201d \u201cWhen they locked on to my leg, I got a chair and started hitting them with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His quick thinking saved both his and his sister\u2019s life. <strong>Maleik<\/strong> battled the dogs alone and once he was able to keep them off long enough, he jumped over his backyard fence to safety. That\u2019s when his older sister took him to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The young boy had emergency surgery for the deep wounds on his legs. He sustained a total of 23 bites on his leg, and a few more on his hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hurt me to my soul when I saw those cuts,\u201d said the father, <strong>Willie Carr<\/strong>. \u201cIt was very hard not crying in front of him because he was already so strong, and I wanted him to continue being strong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN, GA &#8212; Maleik Carr didn\u2019t hesitate to act when he and his little sister were confronted by unleashed pit bulls on their way to the bus stop. The dogs had escaped through a neighbor\u2019s broken fence as the pair of Dublin, Georgia siblings walked across their backyard Monday morning. As soon as they became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}