Dad, daughter cry when talking about their beloved goat which was killed by pit bulls

FLORIDA -- Five-year-old Millie the goat meant everything to her owner, Jaynelle Hamilton, and her family.  Jaynelle bought the goat as a baby to keep her ill grandmother company. 

 

"It's so odd to have a goat as a pet most people say but she was more loyal than any dog I've had," Jaynelle said. "She was just a happy-go-lucky goat."

When Jaynelle came home on Monday, Millie was anything but happy go lucky.  Jaynelle found Millie laying on her side, with two pit bulls standing over her.

 

"They had blood dripping from their mouths," Jaynelle said. "They went after her... they knew what they were doing and went for certain parts that were meant to kill her."

The attack left Millie with shredded ears, several puncture wounds and broken legs.  

 

 

"The right side of her face was torn all by her ear and it was ripped open so that you could just see the itissue in her face... she was pretty much mutilated," said Brandie Mikolak, owner of Our Hope Center animal clinic in North Fort Myers. 

 

Jaynelle spent three days by Millie's side nursing her, hoping her goat would pull through.  Millie died Wednesday morning.
 

"I'm so proud of my daughter and the heroic work she did to try to save her... three days of IV's and injections and sitting by her side comforting her," said James Hamilton, Jaynelle's father.

Animal Control cited the pit bulls' owners with eight citations- four for each dog- but this family worries that won't do enough to prevent this from happening to another animal or a child.

 

In order for an animal to be considered "vicious" and taken from its owners, it must have had two attacks on another animal.  The attack on Millie was the first reported attack for these dogs.

(Fox4Now - Sept 27, 2013)