The Cambridge crematorium filled with the sounds of anguished sobs as 15-month-old Ruben Roux's small white coffin was slowly lowered out of sight on Tuesday.
The owner of the pit bull that mauled a one-year-old on Hallows Farmhouse in East London has expressed mixed feelings about accepting responsibility for the child's death.
People have described the horror of seeing a toddler seized by the throat by a pit bull on Wednesday on a Gonubie smallholding and shaken like a rag doll.
Vets are warning residents to be vigilant and vaccinate, with positive rabies cases in both people and animals rising across the province. In the past month, six rabies cases were reported, and this weekend a dog that attacked three people and two dogs was shot after terrorising residents between Cozy Corner and Kayser’s Beach because it was believed to have been infected.