CALIFORNIA -- For the second time in a matter of weeks, dogs have attacked someone in San Jose.
The San Jose Mercury News reported that a boxer and Labrador escaped from their yard on Uvas Court on Monday afternoon. The dogs were apparently drawn to the sound of barking coming from a neighbor’s garage.
The San Jose Mercury News reported that a boxer and Labrador escaped from their yard on Uvas Court on Monday afternoon. The dogs were apparently drawn to the sound of barking coming from a neighbor’s garage.
When that neighbor returned from walking his other dog, the boxer and the Labrador attacked 78-year-old Bob Ferguson, knocking him to the ground.
Ferguson is convinced he would not have survived the attack, but for a nearby resident who heard his screams and chased the dogs back to the house where they are kept.
Ferguson received ten stitches for injuries to his left ear.
[In the video, he says he felt the one dog tugging on his ear while the other had the top of his head in its mouth, biting on his head.]
Many neighbors claimed this wasn’t the first time these two dogs have escaped from their yard and caused problems.
Animal control officers told KCBS that as of Tuesday morning, they had captured one of the two large canines believed to be involved.
[In the video, a neighbor says the attacking dogs aren't vicious, that he's had them in his own house. He thinks the dogs were only after the victim's little dogs. If that were the case, they would have ripped his little dogs from his arms.... not attacked his face and head.]
This was the second vicious dog attack in San Jose in the last 30 days. On Dec. 20, a woman in East San Jose was mauled in her driveway by a pair of pit bulls.
(KCBS - Jan 4, 2011)