On Sunday afternoon, an 8-year-old Palm River girl was attacked by a dog. She was later hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Hillsborough County Fire Rescue were called on a report of a dog attacking a child at 2:20 p. m. in the 3200 block of Lancaster Lane.<\/p>\n
Animal Control was called to the scene and said the dog was a male breed know as an American Staffordshie Terrier. He was taken away.<\/p>\n
A relative of the injured girl said the attack came as a shock to everyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one has ever complained about that dog before. We have visited the owner\u2019s residence many times, and nothing has ever happened. This took us all by surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n
The relative, who didn\u2019t want to be identified, said the dog\u2019s owner was also shocked, and no one knows what made the dog attack the girl.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we\u2019d go over to visit, she always interacted with the dog, and there were never any problems.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe incident scared her, and she\u2019s in a lot of pain. It could have been a lot worse, and we\u2019re all grateful for that. She\u2019s at home resting now, and I think her school year is over.\u201d<\/p>\n
Animal Services will continue to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n
On Sunday afternoon, an 8-year-old Palm River girl was attacked by a dog. She was later hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. Hillsborough County Fire Rescue were called on a report of a dog attacking a child at 2:20 p. m. in the 3200 block of Lancaster Lane. Animal Control was called to the scene and […]<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21192","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=21192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}