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On 29 July 2018, the junk news site FeedyTV.com reported that a 2-year-old boy had been killed after falling into a wild dog exhibit at a zoo: The FeedyTV story was nothing more than a bad rewrite of a five-year-old article, and it omitted salient details (such as the date), leaving readers with the mistaken impression that it described a recent occurrence. The article on which the FeedyTV piece was based was originally published by the Associated Press back in 2012, and it involved a two-year-old boy who was killed when he fell into an exhibit of wild African dogs at the Pittsburgh Zoo: The child, later identified as Maddox Derkosh, was mauled to death after falling into the enclosure holding African Painted Dogs, described by news reports as endangered animals that are roughly the size of domesticated dogs. His mother had placed him on the rail of an observation deck to get a better view, but the toddler lost his footing and fell into a net meant to catch litter before bouncing off and tumbling to the ground, where he was attacked by the dogs. After the tragedy, the dogs were removed from the Pittsburgh zoo and placed elsewhere. One of the dogs that couldn't be called off by zoo employees during the attack was shot and killed by police:
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