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Copied from the Wpg. Sun May 3rd  
 
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A plucky Jack Russell terrier named George saved five children from two marauding pit bulls, but was so severely mauled in the fight that it had to be put down, its owner said yesterday.  
 
George was playing with the group of children as they returned home from buying candies at a shop in the small North Island town of Manaia last Sunday when the two pit bulls appeared and charged toward them, Allan Gay said.  
 
"George was brave - he took them on and he's not even a foot high," Gay said. "He jumped in on them, he tried to keep them off.  
 
"If it wasn't for George, those kids would have copped it," he said.  
 
One of the children, Richard Rosewarne, 11, said George fought with the pit bulls to keep them off his 4-year-old brother, Darryl Wilson.  
 
 
"George tried to protect us by barking and rushing at them, but they started to bite him - one on the head and the other on the back," Richard said. "We ran off crying and some people saw what was happening and rescued George."  
 
But George was so badly mauled that a veterinarian put him down, Gay said.