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TROUTDALE, Ore - Two pit bulls are in quarantine at the Multnomah County Animal Shelter after attacking a pug in a Troutdale neighborhood Friday morning, according to shelter officials.
The pug, a 7-year-old female named Maggie, was still awaiting surgery as of Friday afternoon according to her owner, Annie Stark.
Stark said the pit bulls were running loose in front of her house on southeast Beavercreek Lane at around 9 a.m. Friday.
Stark said the dogs were friendly toward her teenage son. But when her son went inside their home, the pit bulls started scratching at her front door.
When she cracked it open to shoo them way, they grabbed onto her pug.
The larger dogs dragged her pug across the front yard and into the street.
Stark said she kicked them and hit them with her broom and even tried to poke their eyes, but they wouldn't let go.
Next, she grabbed a splitting maul from her shed, and yelled for help.
"I ran and got it because the broom wasn't doing anything and I had nothing and my son was in there and the dogs would not let go of that little tiny dog," Stark said.
Her neighbor grabbed the maul and hit the pit bulls with the blunt end.
It took several strikes before they let go, Stark said.
"It was several minutes of all of us trying to get these dogs off, pulling them and kicking them," Stark said. "I've never seen anything like it in my life."
Maggie suffered bit marks and cuts to both sides of her body.
Multnomah County Animal Control took control of both pit bulls as it investigates the incident.
A scan for microchips showed that one of the dog belonged to an owner in Beaverton.
The other dog did not have a microchip.
It's unclear at this point what may happen to them, shelter officials said. But, if they are released back to their owners at some point, they'll be required to remain in a secure area and on leash.
"We will level these dogs at a level two, which simply means they have to be in a secure enclosure and outside of the secure enclosure, they'll have to be leashed," said animal control Chief Field Supervisor Randall Brown.
Brown said if the dogs are returned to their owners, officers will do a home inspection to make sure the owners are in compliance.
(kgw.com - October 12, 2014)
if they would have used the splitting end of that maul, their pug might be alive and they probably wouldn't have to worry about the ugly mutants returning to the neighborhood.
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