Nala got the worst of it with this bloody gash near her stomach.
Their owner Patrick McWilliams was taking his dogs for a walk around his neighborhood yesterday afternoon when he says two dogs-- that looked to be pit bulls came out of nowhere and attacked.
“I was basically screaming for a couple of minutes because I'd get one of them off and another one would attack,” says Patrick McWilliams.
McWilliams says one of the attacking dogs bit him on the leg. Neighbors like Bob Kidd heard the commotion and tried to help McWilliams.
“And then I ran out to see what I could do and he was biting him really bad so I went to get a two by four and ran out after him,” says Kidd.
Nala tracked a trail of blood through the garage when she came home. As bad as her injuries look in these pictures both of Patrick McWillaims' dogs had surgery and are expected to come home Friday.
The family shared their story because they hoped by sharing it, it would prevent something like this from ever happening again.
“Put your dogs on leashes when there are dogs not being taken care of you're opening other people up to being attacked,” says Patrick's wife Jodi. We don't know what the status of the other dogs is.
The owners didn't want to talk to me and Animal Control offices are closed for the holiday. Dogs involved in an attack are supposed to be quarantined at a local veterinarian's office for ten days.
Through Facebook comments on of the owners of the dogs in question wrote “We do love our fur babies and we know the other owners do as well. We have No problem paying for the vet bills. We are extremely sorry this happened.”
Miranda Dearmond clarified that her dogs are American bulldogs and not pit bulls. She also wrote that it was an accident and that the dogs dug under their fence.
Dearmond said she will do what the law told them to do follow the incident. She says her dogs escaped by digging under their fence.
(WKRG-TV - Jan 1, 2015)
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