“It’s horrible. I don’t even know. It’s horrible.”
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| RIP Chloe |
The horrific scene happened on Thursday. Parsons was walking her one-year-old toy poodle Chloe near Greenspring Valley Road when all of a sudden, two dogs rounded a bush and one of them– a lab/pit bull mix– attacked.
“I was screaming. I didn’t know what to do because the dog would not let her go. She had a grip on her,” Parsons said.
The nine-pound poodle was no match.
“We finally got her out of the dog’s mouth but by the time we got her to the vet, she was already dead,” said Parsons.
The pit bull mix belonged to Parsons’ neighbor.
“She said she didn’t know how they escaped from her yard, that typically, they stayed on the back porch,” Elise Armacost, spokesperson for the Baltimore County Police Department, said.
Parsons was bitten by the pit bulls as she tried, in vain, to save her beloved pet.
She said the second dog had strayed, along with a third dog, from a nearby home in the unit block of Championship Court. The third dog was only described as a brown dog, Batton said.
She did not release the dog owner's names saying the incident is still being investigated by county animal control.
A recent Maryland Court of Appeals decision in an attack in 2007 on a 10-year-old Towson boy singled out pit bull breeds as dangerous and therefore a greater liability for owners, whose dogs are found responsible in attacks
Critics of the ruling have called it misguided and said it will unfairly target dogs and their owners that are often misidentified as pit bulls. Instead, pit bull advocates said legislation should adopted and be based on a dog's behavior, not breed.
(The Baltimore Sun- June 8, 2012)
