Family dog suffers life-threatening snake bites protecting 7-year-old girl
 

Family dog suffers life-threatening snake bites protecting 7-year-old girl
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A Tampa, Florida family dog is battling life-threatening snake bites after protecting one of his family members.

The 2-year-old German shepard, named Haus, was playing in the back yard with 7-year-old Molly Deluca and her grandmother on Wednesday after**on when the incident occurred, Fox 13 reports. *

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"She saw him jump back, and go forward, and jump back and go forward," said Donya DeLuca, Molly's mother. "He was just, kind of, holding his ground."

The 68-pound dog was fighting a rattlesnake, and suffered three bites from the encounter.* Read more...


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