A BOY was seriously mauled recently by a pack of his family’s dogs in Nanhai, Guangdong Province. The eight-year-old boy has been in hospital since the attack on Aug. 6. He is reported to be in a stable condition. The boy was admitted to hospital unconscious suffering from severe loss of blood. He was attacked by several of the 18 dogs kept by his family. He narrowly escaped death from loss of blood and bites to the throat. The boy had attempted to play with the dogs together with his elder brother when the dogs suddenly turned on them. The family breeds the animals as a business.