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<\/a><\/p>\n(Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n SEVERSK,\u00a0 Siberia, Russia\u2013\u2013<\/strong>An eight-year-old longtime family pet dachshund on March 10,\u00a0 2025 killed a month-old baby girl in Seversk,\u00a0 Tomsk Oblast.<\/p>\n Little news escapes Seversk,\u00a0 a \u201cclosed city\u201d located north of the junction of Kazakstan,\u00a0 Mongolia,\u00a0 and Siberia,\u00a0 on the right bank of the Tom River.<\/p>\n Seversk,\u00a0 a top secret site kept off limits to non-residents,\u00a0 is the location of multiple nuclear reactors and chemical factories established under former dictator Joseph Stalin.<\/p>\n (Beth Clifton photo)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n First appearing on maps as Pyaty Pochtovy\u00a0in 1949,\u00a0 Seversk became Tomsk-7\u00a0in 1954,\u00a0 before regaining individual identity as Seversk in 1992.<\/p>\n Seversk could have been the model for the Siberian prison camp described by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Alexander Solzhenitzen in The First Circle<\/em>,\u00a0 though it was not;\u00a0 there were and are many other Russian \u201cclosed cities\u201d much like it.<\/p>\n But \u201cwhen man bites dog,\u00a0 that\u2019s news,\u201d\u00a0 and when dachshund kills human,\u00a0 that is even bigger news,\u00a0 so sensational that even the KGB,\u00a0 the Russian secret police, \u00a0could not\u2013\u2013or did not\u2013\u2013keep word from leaking out.<\/p>\n (Beth Clifton photo)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Released the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tomsk Region in a prepared statement:<\/p>\n \u201cDuring the night of March 10,\u00a0 2025, \u00a0in an apartment on Kommunistichesky Avenue, \u00a0a pet dachshund bit a baby girl born in 2025 while she was sleeping in her crib. \u00a0Her mother found the child\u2019s lifeless body in the morning with multiple bite wounds.<\/p>\n \u201cThe dog has since been euthanized,\u201d\u00a0 the official statement said.\u00a0 \u201cA criminal investigation has been opened regarding the death of a minor child under signs of a crime defined under Part 1 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,\u201d\u00a0 meaning \u201ccausing death by negligence.\u201d<\/p>\n (Beth Clifton photo)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n British tabloid media added detail without citing verifiable sources.<\/p>\n Wrote Ed Holt for The Daily Mail<\/em>,\u00a0 \u201cAn \u2018aggressive\u2019 sausage dog has killed a newborn baby after vets ignored the concerns of the child\u2019s parents and refused to euthanize the animal.<\/p>\n \u201cThe dachshund jumped into the baby\u2019s crib and silently strangled the child to death with his jaws while her parents slept soundly.<\/p>\n \u201cThe shocking attack occurred,\u201d\u00a0 Holt reported, \u00a0\u201cjust a month after the family welcomed their second child in the Russian city of Seversk in Siberia.\u201d<\/p>\n (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cSpeaking to local media,\u201d\u00a0 Holt reported,\u00a0 \u201ca family member said, \u00a0\u2018The baby\u2019s mother blames herself. \u00a0But it was a tragic accident.\u00a0 It was the middle of the night. \u00a0The girl was sleeping,\u00a0 and everyone else too.<\/p>\n \u201cThe dachshund behaved aggressively towards adult owners,\u201d\u00a0 the unidentified family member continued.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the second child was born in the family in February, \u00a0the aggression only increased.<\/p>\n \u201cThe parents understood the danger.\u00a0 They decided on euthanasia. \u00a0They brought the dog to several clinics, \u00a0but they were refused, \u00a0because the dachshund was physically absolutely healthy.<\/p>\n (Beth Clifton photo)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cFearing a possible attack,\u201d\u00a0 Holt paraphrased,\u00a0 \u201cthe parents decided to keep the dog on a leash during the night.<\/p>\n \u201cHowever, \u00a0on that night, \u00a0the father forgot to tie up the dachshund.\u201d<\/p>\n The infant death by dachshund came two weeks after the Russian RT Television Network broadcast video taken from \u00a0a car at an undisclosed location of a woman shielding her child from a Rottweiler with her own body,\u00a0 suffering serious injuries on a snowy path before a man came to their rescue with a shovel.<\/p>\n Jemma Hart & Frankie.<\/strong><\/em> The Russian dachshund attack \u201ccomes after a missing mum-of-two was found having been partially eaten by her two pet sausage dogs\u2013\u2013with the animals being described by her son as \u2018her life,\u2019\u201d\u00a0 recounted Henry Moore for the British LBC network.<\/p>\n \u201cJemma Hart,\u201d\u00a0 reportedly a suicide, \u00a0\u201cwas missing for a month,\u201d\u00a0 Moore said, \u00a0\u201cwhen her body was discovered at her home in Swindon,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 between Oxford and Bristol, \u00a0\u201cpartially devoured by her two pets.<\/p>\n \u201cNeighbors reported their concerns to police after she failed to open a text message and one of her dogs was heard whimpering from inside the house.\u201d<\/p>\n Coroner Ian Singleton told the inquest into Hart\u2019s death that Wiltshire Police were contacted on January 29,\u00a0 2025 after the neighbors \u201chad not seen her since Christmas.\u00a0 Officers went to her home and found her deceased in the living room.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of her dogs was also found dead at the scene and the other was in a distressed condition.\u201d<\/p>\n (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n ANIMALS 24-7 <\/strong>has file information on nearly 500 dog attack incidents involving dachshunds,\u00a0 but all except ten involved dachshunds as victims of other dogs,\u00a0 chiefly pit bulls.<\/p>\n Among the human Dachshund victims were four children and five adults who suffered disfiguring bites,\u00a0 including a four-week-old baby in Kuna,\u00a0 Idaho,\u00a0 in October 2017.<\/p>\n That Dachshund,\u00a0 one of four Dachshunds in the home,\u00a0 climbed on furniture to reach the baby,\u00a0 in an attack similar to the Seversk attack.<\/p>\n The one fatality,\u00a0 Julia Beck, \u00a087, \u00a0of Fort Wayne, \u00a0Indiana,\u00a0 died on May 15,\u00a0 2005, \u00a0of injuries suffered two weeks earlier in an attack by both a dachshund and a Labrador retriever.<\/p>\n (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The next most serious dachshund attack in the U.S. came when a dachshund in 2008 gnawed off one of a 56-year-old diabetic woman\u2019s toes in her sleep.<\/p>\n The most recent previous dachshund attack of note came in March 2024 in Swansea,\u00a0 England.\u00a0 Victim Kelly Allen,\u00a0 45,\u00a0 told Nikhil Pandey of the tabloid World News<\/em>,\u00a0 he wrote,\u00a0 that a friend\u2019s dachshund, \u00a0\u201cinitially friendly, \u00a0attacked her suddenly, \u00a0latching onto her cheek and tearing off a chunk of flesh. \u00a0The dog then proceeded to eat the piece of flesh.\u00a0 Ms Allen also sustained a bite wound on her arm during the struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The most notorious alleged dachshund attack on record did not actually involve any dachshunds at all.<\/p>\n Killed by a pit bull and a pack of pit mixes on the evening of May 10,\u00a0 2018,\u00a0 Tracy Janine Garcia,\u00a0 52,\u00a0 of Carter County,\u00a0 Oklahoma,\u00a0 within a week entered into urban legend via flagrantly inaccurate tabloid headlines as the purported victim of a pack attack by dachshunds.<\/p>\n Garcia was mauled outside her home by seven allegedly neglected and evidently inbred pit dogs belonging to an unidentified neighbor.<\/p>\n The abnormally short legs of some of the dogs,\u00a0 shown in photos of their remains,\u00a0 in combination with their erect,\u00a0 pointed ears and long, \u00a0sloped muzzles,\u00a0 are characteristic of bull terriers,\u00a0 the smallest common pit bull body type.<\/p>\n Above: bull terrier.<\/strong><\/em> Six of the dogs\u2019 reported weights were under 40 pounds.\u00a0 The pit bull believed to have been mother of the rest appeared to be bigger.<\/p>\n All were within the normal range for fighting bull terriers,\u00a0 but up to twice the size of most dachshunds.<\/p>\n ANIMALS 24-7<\/strong> detailed how the misidentification of the dogs who killed Tracy Garcia occurred,\u00a0 step by step,\u00a0 in\u00a0How tabloids turned the pits who killed Tracy Garcia into \u201cdachshunds.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The first mistake was that the first reporters on the story contacted an agency for information that in fact had never seen or handled the dogs,\u00a0 and then accepted statements about their identification from local pit bull advocates,\u00a0 including a pit bull breeder.<\/p>\nAnd other truly weird tales of one of the dogs statistically least likely to kill anyone:\u00a0 only two fatalities on record anywhere,\u00a0 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<\/a><\/p>\nEven the KGB could not,\u00a0 or did not try,\u00a0 to hush this attack up<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nOfficial statement<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nTabloid details<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nHistory of aggression<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nFather forgot to leash the dog at night<\/h2>\n
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(Facebook photo)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\nDachshunds ate British suicide<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nRare previous cases<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nToe & cheek<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThe \u201cdachshund attack\u201d that wasn\u2019t<\/h2>\n
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Below: the dogs who killed Tracy Garcia.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\nHow the garble happened<\/h2>\n