Wasilla child nearly loses ear in dog mauling

Incident summary

Local reporting described a 7-year-old Wasilla child who nearly lost an ear and needed sutures after a dog mauling; the report said the dog owner fled.

Source language / attribution

Local reporting described a 7-year-old Wasilla child who nearly lost an ear and needed sutures after a dog mauling; the report said the dog owner fled.

Breed attribution

Breed is recorded only when explicitly described in the reviewed source; otherwise BiteDB records unknown / not reported.

Victims and dogs involved

• Victim(s): 7-year-old child
• Dog(s): 1 dog
• Location: Wasilla, Alaska; public map uses city-level approximate geography only

Legal / animal-control status

Publicly reviewed sources did not establish a final court or animal-control disposition unless noted in the summary.

Confidence note

Added during the state-minimum scrub from a current public report or official/publicly indexed source. Location is approximate and breed is not inferred.

Sources

• Wasilla child mauled by dog, owner flees Public report / official or local media reporting