{"id":48376,"date":"2013-11-07T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T08:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=48376"},"modified":"2013-11-07T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T08:10:06","slug":"family-pay-tribute-to-shining-star-savaged-by-killer-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=48376","title":{"rendered":"Family pay tribute to \u2018shining star\u2019 savaged by killer dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/o_845227.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-48368\" alt=\"o_845227\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/o_845227.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/o_845227.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/o_845227-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/o_845227-343x300.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>A girl of four has died after being savaged by her \u2018enormous\u2019 pet dog.<\/p>\n<p>Lexi Hudson was playing with the family\u2019s bulldog when it turned on her.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours said she was \u2018shaken like a rag doll\u2019 in the attack outside her home this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother, Jodi Hudson, 30, stabbed the dog to death as she desperately tried to wrestle her daughter out of its jaws.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews took Lexi to the Queen\u2019s Medical Centre in Nottingham but she died of her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The dog, a rescue animal, had been living with the family for only a few weeks in their flat in the Leicestershire village of Mountsorrel.<\/p>\n<p>Police removed the animal\u2019s body after the attack. It is not a prohibited breed under the Dangerous Dogs Act. Neighbour Glenn Shepphard, 36, said he saw Ms Hudson with blood and mud on her arms and legs. \u2018She had obviously tried to wrestle with the dog. It was very big \u2013 a type I have never seen before.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Nash, a 67-year-old retired driver, said: \u2018I saw Jodi after it happened. She was covered in blood.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ms Hudson had picked the dog up from a pound, according to family friend Paul Ryan. He said: \u2018Lexi was always playing with it and wouldn\u2019t have stood a chance if it went for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Jodi used to try and walk the dog, but it would struggle and pulled her over a few times. She would never have dreamt in a million years that something like this could have happened.<\/p>\n<p>Lily Parks, 87, who lives near the family, said: \u2018It was an enormous dog, but the little girl was very fond of it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lexi had only started school in September, according to neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>Leicestershire police said its investigation was in the \u2018very early stages\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A girl of four has died after being savaged by her \u2018enormous\u2019 pet dog. Lexi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}