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| Freckles, lucky to be alive |
Grace Davis said it's fortunate the pit bull didn't turn on her or attack any of the children in her neighborhood Saturday night.
"I heard my dog yipping and I come around the corner of the van, because I took the garbage out, and he was in the pit bull's mouth and the pit bull shaking him and shaking him," said Davis.
Davis grabbed a black hose to defend her dog Freckles.
"So I started pounding the pit bull on the head with this and telling him to let go, get down," said Davis.
The pit bull eventually took off, leaving the 10-pound Chihuahua severely injured.
"It just, oh it just made you sick to see," said Davis.
Amazingly, veterinarian Dennis Drager was able to get Freckles back on his feet just five days after the attack.
"I will say, I wasn't sure that this dog was going to survive," said Drager.
As for the pit bull, it remains quarantined by the Animal Rescue League.
"We have decided that the dog needs to be treated as a vicious dog," said Animal Rescue League Director Heidi Drager.
Drager said that means the owner, who lives with a second pit bull in the back yard, will have to get insurance and meet several other conditions before getting the dog back.
Davis said the dog should be put down.
"All the little towns around have banned pit bulls and i don't know why Marshalltown doesn't," said Davis.
The city did have a ban on pit bulls several years ago, but Heidi Drager said it was changed to not single out one breed.
If the government can say that you're not allowed owning a certain kind of gun, but other guns are OK... why isn't this the same thing?
"They are the main dog we have problems with," said Drager. "But that doesn't make them a bad breed. It's just they're a very powerful dog that needs to be handled appropriately."
The owners were cited just weeks ago for letting the pit bull run loose in the neighborhood -- and Davis doesn't feel they should get a second chance.
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| The owner's house and look, they've got another pit bull. They can't be responsible with one pit bull so what the heck, let's have two! |
"I think if he was cited once it shouldn't have to go through another citing. He needs to be put down," said Davis.
Because the pit bull was just running loose, it was returned to its owner Bajro Saric. KCCI News tried to contact Saric, but were told by someone living there the dog's owner was not home.
If Saric would meet the conditions to get the dog back, it could not leave the property and if it did get it out again it would be put down.
(KCCI - Sept 2, 2011)
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