{"id":222483,"date":"2026-03-27T03:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/222483\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:17:07","slug":"dog-that-entered-midlothian-home-attacks-1-year-old-child-and-adult-authorities-searching-for-owner-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/222483\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog that entered Midlothian home attacks 1\u2011year\u2011old child and adult; authorities searching for owner, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are working to identify the owner of a dog that entered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/midlothian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Midlothian home<\/a> and attacked a 1\u2011year\u2011old child and an adult, leaving them bloodied and the child hospitalized with severe injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded after 911 reported an injured\u2011person call around 9:15 p.m. Sunday at Pecan Acres Mobile Park, according to the Midlothian Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon arrival, they found an adult female holding a small child,&#8221; Midlothian Police Chief Scott Brown said in a news release. &#8220;Both were &#8216;covered in blood&#8217; per officers, and the child appeared severely injured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The woman, identified as 30\u2011year\u2011old Kelsey Welch of Midlothian, told officers that an unknown dog \u2013 possibly a bull terrier \u2013 entered their home and attacked them both, the chief said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers held the dog in a back room and contacted Animal Control, which later took custody of the animal, according to Brown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of our officers drove the ambulance to Midlothian Methodist Medical Center so both medics could tend to the boy,&#8221; Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are working to identify the owner of a dog that entered a Midlothian home and attacked a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[430,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-222483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}