Thursday, March 27, 2014

Royal Oak woman walking dog attacked by 2 pit bull mix dogs

MICHIGAN -- Two pit bull mix dogs are in quarantine after police say the pair attacked and bit a Royal Oak woman and her dog.

The attack happened about 3 p.m. Tuesday while the woman was walking her Maltese mix dog in the 200 block of Euclid Street, just east of Main Street and south of 12 Mile Road.

“A neighbor assisted the woman, who was yelling and crying,” Royal Oak Police Sgt. Al Carter said on Friday. “It was a traumatic situation. The woman was bitten on the forearm and bicep but was more worried about her dog.”

The woman’s dog was taken to the vet with non–life threatening injuries for treatment. The woman, 62, told police she would seek medical treatment on her own.

A neighbor called police during the attack. Officers and the city’s animal control officer arrived.

Police said the attacking dogs broke through the fence at the house where they live. The animals are owned by a Royal Oak woman, 20, who was not home at the time.

“The mother of the owner was there at the house and also a repairman,” Carter said. “The owner arrived a short time later.”

The pit bull mix dogs retreated to the nearby backyard of another house right after the attack, police said, and were retrieved by the owner’s mother.

The dogs were taken to the animal shelter by the animal control officer, where they are required to be in quarantine for a total of 10 days.

The owner has a total of three dogs at her house, police said, and none of them were licensed.

The owner was issued misdemeanor tickets for failing to license her dogs, having dogs at large, and for the dog-biting incident.

Each ticket is punishable by up to 93 days in jail and a $500 fine.

Police said the owner has provided rabies vaccination paperwork for the dogs.

(Macomb Daily - Mar 21, 2014)

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