A family dog has mauled down a two week old baby in Houston, Texas.

The horrific scene played out, as the infant sit on the floor of a room in the family house in the baby carrier.

Harris County sheriff’s spokesman Thomas Gilliland says the dog, a Labrador mix, began sniffing the child and attacked him before the parents could pull it away.

The severely bitten child was airlifed to Memorial Hermann Hospital. Where he lost his poor life early Sunday. Animal control officers have taken custody of the dog for quarantine.

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