Eva Foster said she had taken out the trash Tuesday afternoon at her home on 13th Avenue at 21st Street when she felt unsteady. She was recently released from the hospital after hip surgery. She put her hand on the fence to brace herself, and she said that's when a neighbor's pit bull jumped up and mauled her arm.
The dog left a 4-by-5-inch gash down to the bone.
Melanie Cutshaw saw it from the parking lot across the street and rushed over to give first aid.
"I said, 'Oh my God, the dog bit her,'" Cutshaw said.
Once Foster was in an ambulance, Cutshaw expected city officials to confiscate the dog and its mate. But they didn't because no law was broken.
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| The reporter shows where Ms Foster's hand was when she was attacked by the pit bull |
Cutshaw and other neighbors are upset about that.
"I have family members who live in this area and they're elders. These dogs are very, very dangerous," Cutshaw said.
Foster's son said he's worried the same thing could happen to someone else.
"I would like to see them removed. Kids walk through the yard, everything else, this is no place to have pit bulls," said Ronald Foster, the victim's son.
Alice Manis is the dog's owner. She said he has been quarantined. When that's up in 10 days, the dog will go to Tennessee to live with her daughter.
"He is not a vicious dog. He has never, ever bit anyone," Manis said.
But Manis is keeping her other pit bull. She no longer has him outdoors because she said she she's worried about the dog's safety.
"I don't feel my dogs are safe here any more," Manis said. "There was a lynch mob out here last night. A lynch mob. And we won't let them out any more without somebody out here 'cause I feel somebody is going to come by and shoot them. And they don't know my dogs."
Foster underwent surgery Thursday at the University of Texas Medial Branch in Galveston. She told KPRC Local 2 by phone that when she does return home, she'd like for all the dogs next door to be gone.
(KPRC - May 19, 2011)
