Saturday, July 18, 2015

Animal Control refuses to respond to pit bull jumping into neighbor's yard, mauling and killing their Pomeranian

OHIO -- A loose pit bull killed another dog on Monroe Street in Port Clinton last Friday.

The pit bull's owner, William J. Yount, 44, of the 800 block of Monroe St., was charged with failure to keep a dog under reasonable control, a misdemeanor, according to court records.

Police were called out to the address for the pit bull that got loose and killed the other dog.

Yount's girlfriend was outside holding on to the brown pit bull and warned the responding Port Clinton police officer to keep his distance since the dog killed the neighbor's dog and then "went after" the neighbor, according to the police report.

The neighbor took the officer to his backyard and showed the officer where the attack took place. The pit bull supposedly jumped the fence between the two homes, charged his Pomeranian and bit it on the throat.

The man tried to fight off the pit bull, but it wouldn't let go of his dog until it was dead. It then tried to attack the owner before the dog was put under control, according to the report.

Ottawa County dog warden Jo Lynn Hetrick said her office didn't respond to the incident because the dogs were both privately owned.

"It would have been different if it was a stray dog," Hetrick sad. "But I'm not saying that injury or death of a dog isn't important to us."

Hetrick said the incident would have been more severe if a human was injured.

"Dog owners need to maintain control of their animals," Hetrick said. "It sounds like it was a very unfortunate situation because they didn't handle it."

(Sandusky Register - Jul 15, 2015)

1 comment:

  1. Of course, it's Ohio, one of the worst pithole states in the country. And the dog warden was lying when they said: "the incident would have been more severe if a human was injured." The incident was treated similarly to when Klonda Richey was murdered by her neighbor's pit bulls.

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