Dog euthanized after mauling 5-year-old

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Dallas Animal Control has euthanized a dog that attacked a 5-year-old boy while he was getting off a school bus in Far North Dallas.

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It happened Thursday at Timberglen Road, near Frankford Road and Kelly Boulevard when a dog got out of a nearby apartment and bit the boy named Kavanaugh Wallace. It was the boy's birthday.

Kavanaugh was taken to a hospital with serious injuries but made it out of surgery at about 1 o'clock this morning.

The dog’s owner, 31-year-old Daneka Black, was arrested on a felony count of attack by a dangerous dog resulting in serious bodily injury.

A go fund me has been set up to help with Kavanaugh's medical costs.

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