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Family Describes Terrifying Ordeal After 4-Year-Old Boy Loses Ear in Dog Attack
The 4-year-old boy spent a week hospitalized before his ear was amputated; the dog's owner planned to surrender the animals, and the family faces rising medical costs.
- On Nov. 20, Tracy Moore threw herself onto her 4-year-old son Roland as two dogs attacked in their driveway near Marquis Drive, Westside, Jacksonville.
- A failing fence allowed the dogs to escape, and the report states that the dog's owner planned to surrender them to animal control.
- Jacksonville Fire and Rescue transported Roland to Wolfson Children's Hospital, where he spent a week and doctors amputated his ear the day before Thanksgiving.
- The family launched a GoFundMe campaign as Roland faces long-term recovery and cannot get a prosthetic ear until he is older.
- JSO referred the incident to Animal Care and Protective Services after officers responded to a dog-bite call, while neighbors secured the dogs in a fenced yard and Moore believes both were euthanized.
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Family describes terrifying ordeal after 4-year-old boy loses ear in dog attack
A family is asking for the community’s help after their 4-year-old son lost his left ear following a terrifying dog attack in November on Jacksonville’s Westside. “Our lives changed in an instant,” Tracy Moore said of the incident that left her son, Roland, in need of a prosthetic ear, which he can't get until he turns 6.
·Jacksonville, United States
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