Douglas Bowling faces charges of endangering children, failure to control a vicious animal and failure to insure regarding the dog attack that happened at this Portsmouth home this past Tuesday.
The case was continued until August 11. The pit bull owner has not been arrested.
Bowling’s three pits, named Hitler, Moo Moo and Tater, remained quarantined with Scioto County Animal Control.
His granddaughter -- 14-month-old Kahtauna Cook – bears stitches all across her body, where the three dogs bit her repeatedly. On the day the attack happened, the toddler was rushed from Portsmouth to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus for extensive medical attention.
Cook suffered bad bites across her face, left arm and other parts of her body.
They were visiting the grandparents when their three dogs attacked the child. The girl was crawling around on the floor when one of the dogs jumped over a barricade and attacked her. The two other pit bulls joined in.
Jones immediately tried to break up the dogs and save her daughter.
"When I leaned down to grab his collar, the other dog grabbed me in the face!," Jones said.
"I was scared to death. I thought they killed her. That's what I thought!"
Jones says the Scioto County dog warden came to Nationwide Chidlren’s to see her little girl Tuesday night.
“When she come up to the hospital, seen the baby, she started crying!”
Jones says she wants all three dogs put down.
“If not, they're gonna end up biting somebody else!”
Jones says she optimistic about her baby recovering from the physical and emotional trauma caused by the attack.
“She's gonna be fine. Me? I’m fine . I’ll be much better when the dogs get put down.”
(ABC6 - August 5, 2011)
