Oh no -- not again. Nicholas Faibish, a 12 year old boy who lived in the Inner Sunset, was mauled to death today by his family's two pit bulls. The police killed one dog on the scene when she wouldn't let them into the apartment, and took the other, Rex (pictured at left), to the SF Animal Care and Control for observation.

Neighbors report that the dogs were often very sweet, though others said sometimes they would bark and lunge menacingly. One of the dogs had been taken into animal control before, but ACC didn't believe it to be aggressive. The family was planning to move to Oregon this summer, and the principal at Roosevelt Middle, where Nicolas attended 6th grade, began to cry in the middle of tonight's eighth grade formal dance when she heard the news. Our sympathies go out to the Faibish family.