ILLINOIS -- Authorities have impounded a pit bull owned by a Wheeling woman who was cited last week with failing to keep her dog on a leash and failing to have a valid Cook County rabies tag after the animal bit a 72-year-old man, police said Tuesday.
Wheeling Police Cmdr. John Teevans said the pit bull was impounded because its owner, Deangela Bamberg, failed to have the dog vaccinated against rabies within 24 hours of a biting incident.
Bamberg also was given new citations for failing to take the dog to a veterinarian for observation and for harboring a dangerous animal, Teevans said.
Police said the dog knocked over the man, who has multiple sclerosis, as he was leaving a barbershop June 21 in the 200 block of East Dundee Road. The man told police that the dog bit him twice.
(Chicago Tribune - June 28, 2006)
