The dog's 79-year-old owner tried to save her beloved dog, but in the end, was forced to bury her baby.
Lois Mogensen has a hard time talking about her last walk with her dog Tanner on Saturday.
"Poor Tanner was laying on his back. I tried to get on top of Tanner. I was kneeling down trying to pull those dogs off, and I couldn't. They were so strong," Mogensen said.
She was up against two pit bulls just steps from her Kenosha home. She said they broke through her neighbor's fence.
"You could see that boards are broken or something," Mogensen said.
She laid on the ground trying to pry the dogs off, fighting to save Tanner, screaming at the top of her lungs.
"(I said), 'Help, help my baby,'" Mogensen said.
A neighbor rushed to wrestle Tanner away, but it wasn't over.
Mogensen said after they got Tanner and took him up to driveway, the two pit bulls continued tho follow and attack.
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| The dogs which attacked poor Tanner, mauling him to death |
Tanner did not survive.
The pit bulls were eventually picked up by animal control.
WISN 12 News tried contacting the pit bulls' owner for comment. No one answered their door.
"It's hard. I think of him all the time," Mogensen said.
Mogensen nurses a bruised thumb and a broken heart. She has a new puppy to help her recover from the devastating horror of what she and Tanner experienced.
According to Mogensen's son, the pit bulls will be quarantined at an animal shelter for 10 days.
[My advice: When you have pit bulls living next door with ramshackle fencing, do NOT take your pet outside. Ever!... Unless you have a carry permit and take your gun with you every single time.]
(WISN - July 8, 2013)
