No dog was loved more

...that she would sacrifice her own son for the life of a dog. Now she's lost both.

The mother of a 12-year-old boy killed in his own home by one of the family's two pit bulls says she had been so concerned about one of the dogs that she shut her son in the basement to protect him.

Maureen Faibish said she ordered Nicholas to stay in the basement while she did errands on June 3, the day he was attacked by one or both of the dogs. She said she was worried about the male dog, Rex, who was acting possessive because the female, Ella, was in heat.

It would have been too much, I suppose, to take the boy along instead of barricading the basement door with a shovel. Or maybe once she realized the dog was a threat to kin and kind that maybe one of her errands that day should have been to put the dog to sleep. But she was too busy or too stupid and her son paid the price with his life. The one dog was shot by police and the other dog will probably be put to sleep. No word yet what will happen to the mother.