Boy Battling For Life After Attack by Rottweiler
Jorshan Brown Juárez, the seven year old attacked by Rottweilers in Limón, continues in delicate condition at the Hospital Nacional de Niños. The boy suffered the attack on Wednesday while playing ouside os his home and rushed by air to San José.

Witnesses say that Jorshan was playing outside his house in Lo Cocos de Limón with several other children, when the dogs left escaped throuhg a hole in the fence that kept them enclosed and one of them attacked the boy.

Friends and relatives were able to back off the dogs with rocks and sticks to get to the boy, who was quickly rushed to the hospital in Limón and then transferred by air to San José. The boy suffered injury to the trachea, esophagus and neck.

Eudisia Juárez Saavedra, JOrshan's grandmother told the Spanish language newspaper Diario Extra, "we always think of these things happening, this time it touched us. He is now in the hands of God".

In the first few weeks of this year there have been numerous attacks by dogs which is prompting some legislators to bring in laws that would control aggressive dogs like Rottweilers as well as Dobermans and Pittbulls, for example.

Costa Rican officials are looking at a proposed law in Switzerland that aims to do the same following a number of deaths by dogs in that country.

Steven Brown, Jorshan's father, said last night he cannot forgive the owner of the dogs. "He has fought bravely and if he makes it through the night, he will survive", said Brown.

Doctors are hopeful that the little boy will survive, he is now recognizing voices. Rodolfo Hernández, director of the children's hospital, said the injuries are serious and Jorshan is being kept in intensive care and under heavy medication to keep arterial pressure normal.