--- title: Mickey: Over 43,000 Rally To Save Dog Who Chewed Kevin Vicente Face description: Violent dog attacked child's face after the four-year-old-boy took his bone canonical: https://time.com/26960/mickey-kevin-vicente-dog-mauling/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-17T12:27:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:51.677Z og:title: 43,000 Dog Lovers Campaign To Save Child-Mauling Beast og:description: Violent dog attacked child's face after the four-year-old-boy took his bone og:url: https://time.com/26960/mickey-kevin-vicente-dog-mauling/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8eb9e2ad20707f48/698685b9e8524bcdbc601da8/mickey-pitbull.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3580 og:image:height: 2014 og:image:alt: Mickey at West Valley Animal Care Center in Phoenix on March 11, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 43,000 Dog Lovers Campaign To Save Child-Mauling Beast twitter:description: Violent dog attacked child's face after the four-year-old-boy took his bone twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8eb9e2ad20707f48/698685b9e8524bcdbc601da8/mickey-pitbull.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Thousands Are Rallying on Facebook to Save This Child-Mauling Pitbull > Sponsored content. 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Mickey at West Valley Animal Care Center in Phoenix on March 11, 2014. Michael Schennum—AP  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Mar 17, 2014 12:27 PM UTC Thousands of people have [taken to Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Mickey/627613240621251) to [defend](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/campaign-save-dog-arizona-mauling-case) a vicious pitbull after he [chewed](http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/20140311pit-bull-mauling-phopenix-boy-debate-over-fate.html) on a four-year-old kid’s face last month. More than 43,000 dog-lovers have liked the Save Mickey Facebook page in support of the beast who cracked little Kevin Vicente’s jaw, cheekbone and eye socket when he nearly ripped off the boy’s face in a nightmarish mauling in Phoenix. The savage canine is scheduled to be euthanized after its owners gave him up in the wake of the mauling. A judge could rule March 25 on whether Mickey will be euthanized, and the dog already has a team of pro-bono lawyers fighting for his life. Attorney John Schill, who is defending Mickey in court, says the blame lies with the adults who were responsible for Kevin, not Mickey. “Having Mickey killed is not going to take away Kevin’s pain or injuries. The only thing this is going to do is kill a poor, innocent dog,” Schill said, according to the Associated Press. That “innocent dog” also killed another dog last year, the Arizona _Republic_ reports. Adults who were present say the dog attacked when Kevin took his bone. 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