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WEBVTT JUST UNDESCRIBABLE.THIS IS HARDER THAN WHEN MYPARENTS DIEDTODD: THESE TWO MINIATUREHORSES, BELLA AND PABLO, WERPAUL HUESING'S PRIDE AND JOY.>> OH, THEY WERE MY LIFE.TODD FRIDAY, HUESING'S LIFE WASUPENDED.HIS COUSIN, MIKE POWELL, SAW THEHORSES BEING ATTACKED BY THREEDOGS, BELIEVED TO BE PIT BULLS.>> THERE WAS NO FIGHT.IT WAS SAVAGE.>> I SHOT AND HIT THE ONE, ANDTHE OTHER TWO TOOK OFF THAT WAY.TODD: LATER IN THE DAY FRIDAY,THE TWO REMAINING DOGS KILLED AREGULAR SIZE HORSE ABOUT AHALF A MILE AWAY FROM THE SCENEOF THE FIRST ATTACK OFF WESTELKTON ROAD IN SAINT CLAIRETOWNSHIP.>> THEY GOT THIS ONE BIG HORSE.NOW IF THEY CAN TAKE DOWN ONEBI HORSE, I'VE GOT TWO BIGHORSES PLUS THE BABY,TODD AS WORD OF THE ATTACKSSPREAD, CHERYL CALLAHAN TOOKSTEPS TO SECURE HER OWN STABLEOF HORSES.>> ME BEING PROTECTIVE I'JUST -- I'VE BEEN PUTTING THEMUP.I PUT THEM IN THE CORRAL BESIDETHE BARN, PUT THEM IN AT EIGNIGHT -- AT NIGHT.WE WATCHED THEM ALL DAY LONG.TODD: CALLAHAN, WHO SAYS THISPHOTO SHOWS TWO OF THE DOGS THATATTACKED THE HORSES, IS DEEPLYSADDENED BY WHAT HEUSING HAS HADTO ENDURE.THE LOOK ON HIS FACE WHEN IWENT OVER THERE WAS JUSTUNBELIEVABLE.I COULDN'T IMAGINE.>> I CAN'T DESCRIBE THEHEARTACHE, THE THOUGHT OF THEMBEING TORN APARTMY BABY WAS THIS BIG ANDPROBABLY DIDN'T WEIGH 250POUNDS.AND I HELPED THE DOG WARDENCARRY THE DEAD PIT BULL UP IN ABAG, AND IT TOOK BOTH OF IS.-- BOTH OF US.THAT DOG WAS 100 POUNDS.TODD: I SPOKE TO BUTLER COUNTY'SSUPERVISOR OF DOG WARDENS LATETHIS AFTERNOON.HE TOLD ME IT'S NOT CLEAR WHERETHE TWO OTHER DOGS INVOLVED INFRIDAY'S ATTACK ARE TONIGHTHE ADVISES NEIGHBORS TO BECAUTIOUS.ONE OF THE DOGS IS WHITE INCOLOR, POSSIBLY WITH BLACKSTREAKS.WITNESSES SAY THE OTHER DOGSIMPLY HAS A DARKER COAT.

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A Butler County man said loose dogs killed his two miniature horses and a neighbor's regular-size horse Friday.Paul Huesing said three dogs attacked his miniature horses, Bella and Pablo, at the home of his cousin, Mike Powell, on West Elkton Road in St. Claire Township, where Huesing was boarding the animals.Huesing knew something was wrong when his cousin's wife, Linda, called him in a panic."I said, 'What's wrong?'" Powell said. "She said, 'Get out here.' I said, 'What's wrong?' She said, 'Bella is dead.'"Mike Powell saw the attack unfold when he went to feed the two small horses. He had a gun at the time and shot and killed one of the three dogs, a pit bull. The other two dogs, which are believed to also be pit bulls, took off running."His eyelids were ripped off," Huesing, describing the injuries his horse Pablo suffered. "His innards were exposed. I can't describe it. Nobody should go through this. Nobody."Later in the day Friday, the two remaining dogs killed a regular-size horse about a half a mile away from the scene of the first attack."They got this one big horse," said Cheryl Callahan, a horse owner who lives next to the Powells. "Now if they can take down one big horse, I've got two big horses plus the baby."As word of the attacks spread, Callahan took steps to secure her own stable of horses."Me being protective, I've just, I've been putting them up," said Callahan. "I put them in the corral beside the barn, put them in at night. We watch them all day long."Callahan is deeply saddened by what Huesing has had to endure."The look on his face when I went over there was just unbelievable," she said. "I couldn't imagine.""I can't describe the heartache, the thought of them being torn apart," Huesing said. "My baby was this big (lifting his hand about 2 feet off the ground) and probably didn't weigh 250 pounds. And I helped the dog warden carry the dead pit bull up in a bag, and it took both of is. That dog was 100 pounds."WLWT investigator Todd Dykes spoke to Butler County's supervisor of dog wardens, Deputy Kurt Merbs, late in the afternoon on Monday.Merbs said it's not clear where the two other dogs involved in Friday's attacks are.He advises neighbors to be cautious and alert the sheriff's department of any stray dogs.One of the two attacking dogs is white, possibly with black streaks. Witnesses said the other dog simply has a darker coat.Neighbors believe they know who owns the dogs, but Merbs said investigators are still trying to make that determination. He added that charges are possible.