After 50 years of marriage, Jack and Jane Jones will do anything for each other.
Jane will even change Jack's bandages on his bloody left thigh.
Jack Jones said he is in constant pain from what police confirm is a pit bull attack, just outside his Pottsville row home.
He never saw the dog coming.
"We were on our way to church," Jones said Monday. "I said 'Jesus Christ.' It was just a pinch, and I looked down and the blood was running down."
Workers fixing a broken water main witnessed the attack and called 911.
An ambulance later took Jones to the hospital.
Police left the dog in the custody of the neighbor, telling the Joneses it will be quarantined in the neighborhood, possibly next door.
"I don't think he should be around. He's too vicious," said Jack Jones.
"It's just not fair that a dog can ruin our life," said Jane Jones.
The attack left her so unsettled she won't even venture out into her backyard to tend to her garden, which is her pride and joy. She fears the quarantined pit bull will be let out, and that the four foot high fence in her yard won't offer enough protection.
She is even afraid to have her grandchildren over to visit.
"And I feel like we are prisoners in our own home," Jane Jones added.
Friends of the dog's owners shouted Newswatch 16 down Monday until we talked to the man who said the pit bull was at his home yesterday. He said he blames the victim, not the dog.
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| Yikes. I would hate to have to listen to this group of idiots outside my home screaming about how it was my fault that a pit bull ripped into my thigh |
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| The owner says the elderly victim "did something" to his pit bull to "make" it attack |
"He's a puppy, he's a playful puppy. They're doing something to that dog," the man said.
Jack Jones has a doctor's appointment Tuesday. Then he hopes to meet with Pottsville's mayor to do something about the dog that attacked him.
(WNEP - July 4, 2011)
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