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WEBVTT BULL MIX. >> HER HEART WENT OUT TO THE STOCK, SHE SAID MY HEART GOES OUT TO THIS DOG AREA -- DOG. BARRY: FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARE REMEMBERING ROBIN CONWAY. POLICE GOT A CALL THAT SHE HAD BEEN MAULED A A PIT BULL. IT HAPPENED IN THE BACKYARD. >> THIS WAS WHEN ANIMAL SHE THOUGHT SHE COULD SAVE, ONE ANIMAL THAT NEEDED TO BE RESCUED. AND THE ANIMAL UNFORTUNATELY KILLED HER. BARRY: HER FAMILY SAID THAT WHEN HER HUSBAND DISCOVERED HIS SERIOUSLY INJURED WIFE, THE DOG WAS STILL STANDING OVER HER. THE HUSBAND CALLED 911 AND TIED THE DOG TO A FENCE POST. ACCORDING TO THE POLICE, WHILE TIED UP, THE DOG CONTINUED BARKING AT MUNGING. >> THE DOC WAS NOT ADOPTED LOCALLY. APPARENTLY SHE GOT HIM FROM OUT OF STATE. HE IS A PIT BULL AND AS A RESULT OF THIS INCIDENT, HE HAD TO BE EUTHANIZED. BARRY: TWO WEEKS AGO CONWAY BROUGHT THE DOG HOME AND BEGAN PROVIDING FOSTER CARE. >> THEY WERE GREAT AND I HAVE FRIENDS WHO HAVE BEEN OWNERS OF PITBULL MIXES AND THEY WERE GREAT. SO THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG OBVIOUSLY WITH THIS PARTICULAR DOG. THAT IS NOT TO BE TAKEN AS SOMETHING TO BE HELD AGAINST ALL PIT OLD MIXES OR PITBULLS BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME LOVELY ONES OUT THERE. BARRY: POLICE TELL US THEY WILL BE TESTS CONDUCTED ON THE DOG TO CHECK FOR RABIES OR OTHER MEDICAL ISSUES. THERE WAITING FOR AUTOPSY RESULTS FROM THE MEDICAL EXAMINER TO CONFIRM THE CAUSE OF DEATH FOR ROBIN CONWA

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A woman was mauled to death by a dog she adopted two weeks ago, Howard County police said.County police said officers were called to a house Sept. 3 on Tamar Drive for a report that a woman had been mauled to death by what police described as a pit bull. Officers found Robin Conway, 64, dead in her backyard with significant injuries. The cause of Conway's death will be determined in an autopsy by the state medical examiner. A family member reported that Conway's husband found her injured in their yard around 7:20 p.m. with the dog standing over her. He called 911 and tied the dog to a fence post. Police and paramedics were called and pronounced Conway dead at the scene. The dog, still attached to the post, was barking and lunging on the leash and had to be subdued by animal control officers and ultimately euthanized. A necropsy will be performed to determine if the dog had rabies or any other medical issues. "All we know at this point is that the dog was not adopted locally. Apparently she got it from out of state. He is a pit bull. And unfortunately, as a result of this incident, he had to be euthanized," said Sherry Llewellyn, of the Howard County Police Department."This is one animal she thought she could save. An animal that needed to be rescued. (And that) animal unfortunately killed her," said her sister Susan Eve LeClair.There have been no previous calls to animal control related to the address. "They were great. I have friends that have been owners of pit bull mixes and they were great. So there was something wrong obviously with this particular dog that is not to be something to be held against all pit bulls, because there are some lovely ones out there," LeClair said.Police do not have information about the dog's adoption except that it came from out of state.Also on WBALTV.com: