NEBRASKA -- Officials say one dog was killed and another was injured after two dogs jumped a fence and attacked them in La Vista.
The two attacking dogs have been placed in quarantine by the Nebraska Humane Society.
A Humane Society official said the dog’s owner was cited on suspicion of harboring dangerous animals, not licensing the dogs and not maintaining proper vaccination records.
John Rawson said his two small dogs were in his La Vista yard near 77th Street and Parkview Boulevard on Tuesday afternoon when a neighbor’s dogs jumped the fence. He said his two dogs were no match for the neighbor’s dogs, which were American Staffordshire terriers. Rawson’s dogs were a Jack Russell terrier and a beagle.
Eventually, police and Humane Society officers rescued the dogs. They were taken to an animal hospital where veterinarians treated the dogs. One was too badly injured to be saved.
“He was in very bad shape. One of the worst bite wounds I’ve ever seen,” Dr. Scott Yonker said.
(Omaha World Herald - August 18, 2011)
