IDAHO -- A dog attacks - then returns for a second visit. It happened in Nampa Wednesday night.
Jennifer Williams says her neighbor needs to contain their dog after it attacked her own. She’s afraid someone’s child could be injured next.
Williams said she felt helpless when she watched her Chihuahua being attacked by a pit bull. Now, she doesn’t know what to do to keep it from happening again.
“To hear her screaming and not be able to protect her - because I was afraid for myself and my kids - was really hard,” she said. “It made me feel really bad that I couldn’t protect her.”
Photos and vet records show the attack caused puncture wounds and bleeding.
Williams says animal control came to the house, but couldn’t take the dog because it hadn’t attacked anyone before. But animal control ticketed the dog’s caretaker – and Williams says the owner paid for the vet bill.
The owner wasn’t home when we tried to reach him.
But Williams says the dog came back last night – this time going into their garage.
She was thankful her own dog wasn’t around.
“I was just scared and luckily my husband was in the garage too,” she said. “I just went inside and tried to call animal control.”
Animal control couldn’t comment on any specifics about the case, but said she did the right thing about contacting them each time.
“Call animal control every single time,” said Kimberly Mink with Nampa Animal Control. “It does two things: It allows me to try to find the owner and educate them. Also, it creates a history inside the police department.”
Until the pit bull is contained, Williams says she’s afraid to let her kids – or her dog – play outside.
“You see stuff like that on TV and you don’t realize how scary it is. It’s not even that it happened – it’s that it happened in my house,” she said.
If animal control has a record of repeated aggression, the case can go to Nampa’s Vicious Dog Board – who decides how to mitigate the situation.
(KIVI-TV - July 19, 2012)
