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Steeler Harrison's pit bull attacks young son

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PITTSBURGH – A pit bull owned by Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison has reportedly attacked the player's young son, but police, hospital and team officials are releasing little information.

"We're aware of the situation, but it's a personal matter for James," Burt Lauten, spokesman for the Super Bowl champions told The Associated Press. "We won't be commenting further."

An unidentified neighbor told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette one of the star player's three dogs got loose Thursday and attacked the boy, James III. His age was not immediately available.

A Franklin Park police officer warned neighbors "to keep our children inside because (Mr. Harrison's) dog had bit somebody," the neighbor told the newspaper.

The dog was removed by an animal control agency.

A Franklin Park police spokeswoman on Friday said police are not commenting because the incident remains under investigation.

Neighbors told the newspaper that a second person also was hurt and that Harrison's son was taken to UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. A hospital spokesman said the family does not want information released.

Harrison lives about 15 miles north of the city.

In 2006, then-Steelers linebacker Joey Porter was cited by police in Pine Township, another suburb north of Pittsburgh, after two of his dogs got loose and killed a miniature horse on a nearby farm. Northern Regional Police said then that Porter's dogs were licensed in his hometown of Bakersfield, Calif., but not in Allegheny County.

Harrison is the NFL Defensive Player of the Year and scored on a 100-yard interception return in the team's 27-23 victory over Arizona in Super Bowl XLIII. He made headlines for declining to join the Steelers on a White House visit Thursday, though he passed up the same opportunity after the Steelers beat Seattle in Super bowl XL in 2006.

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I Hate People That Raise This Beautiful Breed Of Dog Like This And Serve To Only Further Their Unfair And Undeserved Bad Reputation

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I Hate People That Raise This Beautiful Breed Of Dog Like This And Serve To Only Further Their Unfair And Undeserved Bad Reputation

I bet he will get rid of his magnificent creatures and wish he'd never had them. Also what is with this MFer, snubbing the presidents?

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As most know, I'm a big dog lover. I had a great dane that I had to put down due to medical problems about the same time Vick lied to Goodell about his dogfighting scam. Part of my resentment towards Vick, some say.

I loved that dog like a overgrown child. If I could take him where other people take their whiny ass kids, I would have. Because he was more well behaved than most people's kids.

But my ex had a friend over one weekend, and he was laying next to the chair she was sitting in, and she reach over to pet him. And surprising to us, he jumped up and bit her on the face for no reason. He never showed tendencies of doing anything like that before.

I immediately jumped up and started beating the poo out of the dog. He coward as I beat him. The ex went to help the friend. We had to take her to the hospital for stitches, and we paid for everything. She was a good friend and didn't sue us when she could have.

But the moral of the story is this:

That dog never questioned me after that, and always looked to me as to what he could do and what he couldn't do, because I always gave him love when he did right. He respected my authority after that incendent. He knew that my word was law, and he looked to me before he reacted to most situations. If he didn't, all I had to do was raise my voice, and he knew his master didn't approve, and he would settle down.

He actually had bitten a child before we got him, and we knew that. We took the chance on him because we didn't have children and we fell in love with him. But if someone thinks that their child is completely safe because the dog is "cute" are stupid. Any dog can turn on any human, adult or child.

Dogs aren't babysitters and small children should never be left alone with any dog, no matter how big or small.

But I hate seeing dogs catch the heat from this when it's bad parents that are just as much to blame.

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