IOWA -- A Boone County sheriff’s deputy continues to recover after he was attacked last week by a pit bull terrier at a mobile home park on the west side of Ames.
The deputy responded to a mobile home park at 1600 Lincoln Way on July 12 to a complaint of a dog barking and not letting a man out of a car.
Boone County Sheriff Gregg Elsberry said the deputy was wearing dog handling gloves when he got out of his car and was attacked.
Although the dog’s bite punctured the glove, the glove helped prevent the deputy from suffering a more serious injury to his hand.
The dog’s owner is from the Story City area, Elsberry said, and the dog was staying at the home in the mobile home park at the time.
The dog initially was taken to the Boone County Humane Society and quarantined, but Elsberry said its owner made the decision to put the dog down.
The investigation is ongoing and he is continuing to discuss the case with the county attorney’s office to determine if charges should be filed.
“We don’t have a county ordinance for vicious dogs, and we don’t believe there was any intent. The dog just saw him and went after him,” Elsberry said.
(Ames Tribune - July 17, 2013)
