GEORGIA -- A Lee County teenager and an Albany woman are recovering after a pit bull jumped a fence and attacked them.
Several people were trying to put Zeus back in his yard Tuesday afternoon when he suddenly attacked Kali Gardner and Patricia Davis. The dog bit them on the head, face, arms, and hands. Animal control has custody of the dog now.
Neighbors say this was the third time this week Zeus jumped the fence and ran wildly through the neighborhood. He was nearly hit by a car as they were trying to corral him. The family told neighbors he wouldn't bite and was friendly, but they learned otherwise.
Zeus now sits behind a fence he can't escape after attacking a 14-year-old Kali Gardner and his owner's mother Patricia Davis yesterday afternoon. Tina O'Donnal was helping to coax Zeus back in his yard.
"We were trying to put him back in his yard, and we were just calling him to come get in his yard after he was chasing all the cats in the neighborhood," Tina said.
Suddenly the dog snapped. "It wasn't acting very aggressive as far as wanting to hurt anybody but, soon as he took her up and took her down by the back of her head, he wasn't going to let loose."
Davis tried to intervene, jumping on the dog. O'Donnal ran to call 911. "I got a shovel; I was trying to find some type of weapon," she said.
When she returned, "Tina Kali was in her house. I could hear her screaming and the dog was still loose, he was at her door jumping up, still trying to get at her door."
The pictures show the damage, the back of Kali's head bloodied in bites, puncture wounds to Davis' shoulder, scratches and bite marks to her hands. The dog's owner Ke'Andra Davis apparently doesn't want the dog back.
"From what I understand from her, she wants to turn it over to us," said Lee County Public Works Director Mike Sistrunk.
Animal control will keep him 10 days in quarantine. Zeus will be labeled an aggressive dog, which comes with a hefty price. If Davis doesn't want to pay it puts Animal Control in a tough place.
"We can't adopt that animal out, it would probably be euthanized," said Sistrunk.
Neighbors say they're sad it's come to this, but they see no other alternative.
To keep Zeus, the Davis' would have to pay at least a $100 annual fee, plus notify their homeowners insurance.
We're told the house rental company had already warned the Davis' about the dog getting out with a letter.
Ke'Andra Davis has been charged with animals running at large for now. Animal Control says the case is still under investigation.
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(WALB - Nov 16, 2011)
