(February 2018) California: "Our dog was attacked by pit bull and survived"

CALIFORNIA -- Oleg Lobykin posted on Facebook February 3, 2018 · East Palo Alto, CA ·

Our dog was attacked by pit bull and survived.

It was not easy to get them separated using garden hose with water and shovel.

For dog lovers with friendly breeds best defense from pit bull is pepper spray. Have one just in case.

Correction: The best defense from a Pit Bull is a firearm.

  

  

  

Note who posted the photo. Back in 2016, Tina Pounds was viciously mauled by a Pit Bull while protecting her grandson from the dog. She has since been "red pilled", as they say, about these kinds of dogs. Her GoFundMe is still open due to the high costs of her lengthy recovery.

Louisiana: Grandma, protecting her grandson, is horribly mauled by pit bull

GOFUNDME: Support for Tina's Recovery

Louisiana: Jamari Jackson found guilty of beating his dog to death with a baseball bat

LOUISIANA -- On July 13, 2016, an Ascension Parish jury found Jamari Jackson, age 33, of 41270 Merritt Evans Rd. Prairieville, LA., guilty of Aggravated Cruelty to Animals after brutally beating a dog in June 2014.

Jackson was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Joni Buquoi and Amy Colby with the Honorable Judge Jason Verdigets presiding over the matter.

On June 14, 2014, Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to 41270 Merritt Evans Rd. Prairieville, LA., regarding an animal cruelty complaint.

The complainant advised that she had just witnessed an individual who she was able to positively identify as Jamari Jackson beating a dog with a baseball bat. 

Upon the arrival, deputies were advised by witnesses of the gruesome scene. Deputies as well as independent witnesses described the pit bulls as "lifeless" and "full of blood". Deputies were able to hear the dog whimpering and struggling to breathe.

When questioned about the condition of the dog, Jackson told deputies that the dog "had gotten stuck in a barbed wire fence".

Deputies were able to locate the bat described by the complainant inside of Jackson’s residence.

Jackson was arrested and transported to the Ascension Parish Detention Center where he was booked for Aggravated Cruelty to Animals.

Approximately 2 days later, the dog succumbed to her injuries.

During the trial, Jackson testified that after discovering the dog stuck in a barbed wire fence, he used the bat to knock her unconscious so "she would be relaxed". 

Three doctors classified as experts in Veterinary Medicine and Veterinary Pathology testified that the injuries sustained by the dog were from blunt force trauma which caused traumatic injury to the brain sufficient to cause death, not a barbed wire fence.

Jurors deliberated for just over an hour before returning a guilty verdict.

Per Judge Verdigets, sentencing was deferred pending a Pre-Sentence Investigation. Jackson faces up to 10 years in prison. Jackson was remanded to the custody of the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Jackson's skank girlfriend, Sammi Corley, 25, was also charged with aggravated animal cruelty - she was seen by witnesses hosing the dog down with a water hose while Jackson continuously beat it.

(The Creole - July 15, 2016)

Earlier:

• Louisiana: Jamari Jackson, 31, beat his dog to death while his girlfriend Sammi Corley, 25, helped

Dog attack victim dragged from roof of car in bloody jaws of pit bull-like beast

UNITED KINGDOM -- Police had to seal off a street after a savage dog attack in which the animal dragged its badly injured victim from the roof of a car.

Witnesses said they saw the man scramble on top of the vehicle car to try to escape but the dog pulled him to the ground.

The dog - believed to be either a pit bull or a bull mastiff - had blood dripping from its jaws, according to passers-by.

  

One witness described the attack as "horrendous" and said the man's shredded clothes lay in tatters in Kent Street, Liverpool.

One man tried to stop the attack by hitting the beast with a stick while a grandmother with heart problems squirted water in the dog's face from her mobility scooter in an attempt to distract it.

Residents were told to stay away and several specialist response units with shields and dogs were called in.

Early reports said the victim was the dog owner but later claims suggest it was an intruder on the garden path, reports the Liverpool Echo .

The victim was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital with wounds to his arms and leg.
It is understood police marksmen were called to the scene but the whereabouts of the dog was not known.

An eye witness said: "The man was caught up in his trousers - he couldn't get away. The dog's mouth was covered in blood, it was awful."
(Mirror UK - Sept 21, 2015)

Former Anniston restaurant owner, David Mogil, gets maximum for animal cruelty

ALABAMA -- A former Anniston restaurant owner was sentenced in a hearing Tuesday afternoon after being found guilty in early August of aggravated animal cruelty.
 
Judge Debra Jones sentenced David Mogil to the maximum penalty of 10 years with a split sentence.

Mogil will go free Wednesday after serving 223 days in jail. He will serve the remaining 142 days and nine years under supervised probation, Jones said during the hearing.

Terms of his probation include random testing for alcohol and drugs, completion of an anger management course, attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings twice a week, meetings with a mentor at least once a week, and 100 hours of community service.

Mogil’s attorney, Bill Broome, called nine character witnesses to the stand during the two-and-a-half hour hearing. They all spoke on his willingness to repent for his actions and how his attitude reflects that in conversations with Mogil. 

Mogil was convicted of beating his ex-fiance’s dog with a rubber hose in November at his apartment above his Noble Street restaurant, Damn Yankees. Accounts of the incident from witnesses say the dog jumped from the balcony of Mogil’s apartment.

During a jury trial Aug. 6, Gadsden veterinarian Ginger Bailey testified the dog showed no sign of serious injury soon after the incident. Mogil was convicted Aug. 7.

During the hearing Tuesday, Mogil spoke on his actions, prompted by the judge’s statement that she had not heard him express remorse over the incident for which he was found guilty.

“I was screaming, I was hollering, and I spanked the dog,” he said. “I did that. I obviously scared it, and I take responsibility for those actions.”

Should Mogil violate any terms of his probation he will be sent to prison, Jones said during the hearing.

Mogil is currently awaiting a court date for an unrelated felony second-degree assault charge. 
(Anniston Star - Sept 2, 2015)

Earlier:

• Anniston bar owner, woman, arrested in animal cruelty case, police say
• Anniston restaurant owner, David Mogil, on trial for allegedly beating dog with hose
• GUILTY!

GUILTY!

Former Anniston restaurateur found guilty in aggravated animal cruelty trial

ALABAMA -- A Calhoun County jury on Friday found a former Anniston restaurant owner guilty of aggravated animal cruelty.
 
Jurors found David Mogil, former proprietor of Damn Yankees, guilty of that crime after deliberating just over an hour Friday afternoon.

Mogil was indicted by a Calhoun County grand jury in May on the felony charge after his then-girlfriend’s dog, a cocker spaniel named Coco Lily, last year fell from an apartment balcony above his restaurant, Damn Yankees. Mogil’s sentence hearing is set for 10:30 a.m. Sept. 1.

Friday’s continuation of the trial began with a motion for acquittal of the Class C felony charge from Mogil’s defense attorney, Bill Broome.

Broome twice argued the charge should be thrown out because the only “medical expert” in the case, Gadsden veterinarian Ginger Bailey, during testimony on Thursday said she saw no evidence of physical abuse.

“If the vet didn’t see it, it’s not there,” Broome said, “and if it’s not there, it doesn’t meet the statute” under which his client was charged.

That statute says a person must cause “intensive or prolonged pain or serious physical injury” to an animal, or cause its death.

Circuit Judge Debra Jones denied both motions Broome made, ruling jurors should decide the outcome of the trial.

Mogil, who testified in his own defense on Friday, contends evidence of abuse wasn’t there because it never happened. Witnesses who testified that it had based on what they heard outside his restaurant on Nov. 29, he said, were “making it up.”

According to his account of that morning’s events, Mogil had to let Alison Johnson’s two dogs out onto the balcony of his second story apartment. The dogs were trained to relieve themselves there.

He claimed Johnson was his fiance at that time, and was living with him in the apartment.

When Mogil tried to get the cocker spaniel out of his apartment and onto the balcony, she bit him on the hand, he said.

Broome submitted a photo of a wound on Mogil’s right hand to the jury for examination. Two of the state’s witnesses denied ever seeing that wound.

After it bit him, Mogil said, he grabbed the dog by the scruff of its neck and carried it out onto the porch.

Mogil said that after Johnson’s dogs had defecated on the balcony, he unraveled a hose to spray the surface off.

The hose “had a shard of ice” in it, he said, so he began striking the hose on the balcony.

Broome asked his client several times if he ever hit the cocker spaniel with the hose. Each time, Mogil denied having done so.

According to Assistant District Attorney Randy Moeller, witness testimony proved that, “circumstantially, Mr. Mogil did beat” the cocker spaniel with a hose.

“Three witnesses said they saw that hose come up, and every time it went down — yelping,” Moeller said during his closing argument. “He was beating that dog.”

That consistency among witnesses counts, he said, allowing the jury to believe those accounts.

Moeller told the jury he knew he couldn’t prove the dog had suffered serious physical injury or death, two requirements of the law under which Mogil had been charged.

“We are saying ... there was intensive pain,” the prosecutor said, referencing testimony of two witnesses that the dog was “slow” and required pain medication for a week after it fell from the roof.

“We’re disappointed,” Broome said after the verdict was read, “but we respect the jury’s decision.”

That decision wasn’t an easy one to make, one juror, who did not want to be named, said after being released from the courtroom.

“I don’t feel good about it,” she said, but witness’ testimony convinced her and other jurors to convict Mogil — a unanimous decision. “I wish that day had never happened,” she said of the day the dog fell.

Broome said he was particularly disappointed his motions for acquittal were denied, in light of what he felt was a lack of physical evidence. He plans to help Mogil appeal the court’s decision.

“I feel very confident it’ll be reversed,” he said. “We’ll see what an appellate court thinks.”

(Anniston Star - Aug 7, 2015)

Earlier:

• Anniston bar owner, woman, arrested in animal cruelty case, police say
• Anniston restaurant owner, David Mogil, on trial for allegedly beating dog with hose

Anniston restaurant owner, David Mogil, on trial for allegedly beating dog with hose

ALABAMA -- The trial of Anniston restaurant owner David Mogil on animal cruelty charges began Thursday in a courtroom that was noticeably crowded, especially on the defendant's side.

That fact didn't escape the prosecutor, Calhoun County assistant district attorney Randy Moeller.

"Unfortunately, we don't have any family or friends for the dog here," Moeller told the jury.

Witnesses say they saw Dave Mogil slinging a hose as a dog yelped in pain. His ex-girlfriend said he was irate and told her not to cooperate with police.

 

But Mogil's attorney told jurors that the witnesses may not have seen what they thought.

The dog in question was Coco Lilly, a Cocker Spaniel belonging to his then-girlfriend, Allison Johnson. She was among the prosecution witnesses testifying on the first day.

Mogil is charged with aggravated animal cruelty and is accused of beating the dog with a hose before the dog jumped from a second floor balcony.

Mogil was owner at the time of the two locations of the Damn Yankees Oyster Bar restaurant, and his apartment, where the November 10, 2014 incident occurred, was located atop the Anniston location on Noble Street.

That restaurant has since closed and been replaced by a different restaurant serving mostly different cuisine.

Johnson had moved into Mogil's apartment with her three pets two weeks earlier. She said Lil, as she called her dog, was used to being an outdoor dog, and had just moved from a rural setting in Alexandria to Mogil's midtown, rooftop apartment, along with another dog and a cat.

Johnson testified she got a call that morning shortly after reporting for work at a nearby service department of a new car dealership saying she needed to come home, but no reason was given.

She said when she drove up, she found Lil lying in the alley, bleeding from her mouth and having uncharacteristically "used the bathroom on herself."

Johnson told jurors her priority was to get the dog to its usual vet, Southside Animal Clinic in the next county, Etowah County. But when she tried to take the dog up the stairs, "she wouldn't budge."

She said Mogil was at the top of the stair, yelling "Do not let that ******* dog in my house!"

She also says Mogil told her not to talk to the police, and when the officers tried to ask her questions, he kept saying, "Do not answer! Do not answer! Do not answer!"

Jurors first heard from three witnesses who were electrical contractors working next door to Damn Yankees where Rack and Roll Billiards was being renovated.

All three testified they saw Mogil slinging a hose, "hollering and cussing," and heard a dog yelping in pain. One of them even compared it to the sound of a dogfight.

The industrial rubber hose was evidence in the trial and defense attorney Bill Broome actually slung it against wood a few times during the trial.

The witnesses also insisted the yelps were of a dog in pain.

"It sounded like it was getting hurt," one witness said. "If you've got a dog you know what it sounds like," another witness added.

The workers said they yelled to him, "Dude, what the hell?"

"We're construction workers, we're going to say we want," said one of the workers, Jamie Wright, owner of Grady Electric.

Two of the workers say they saw the dog go over the ledge and fall two stories to the pavement. One testified the dog appeared to strike something, perhaps a picnic table, on the way down.

Later the workers testified Mogil came over to Rack and Roll and confronted Wright, saying "I did not hit that dog!"

One of the workers said no one had accused him of doing that before he said that. But the workers say Mogil went on to say he hit the dog because it bit him.

The veterinarian who treated the dog, Ginger Bailey, testified the dog had an abrasion and was bleeding from its chin but showed no other injuries.

But she also said had there been any bruising from the water hose, it would have shown up some 12 to 24 hours later and she wasn't around the dog at that point.

Bailey testified she prescribed some anti-inflammatory and antibiotics for the dog.

Ross Cash, a security guard for nearby Regions Bank, testified he had seen the dog before that day and even spoke to her when she poked her head above the balcony ledge.

He said he could see from the bank's security monitors that the dog was walking around on the ledge and immediately ran out of the bank to try to save her.

Cash testified he came out just as the dog leapt. He testified when the dog saw Mogil come through the door again, she jumped.

"She was petrified," Cash said of the dog after he saw her in the alley. Cash said the dog actually looked unconscious except for slightly moving her back feet, until Allison Johnson drove up. Then she ran to her owner.

"She was very happy to see me," Johnson testified.

During opening statements, defense attorney Bill Broome laid out a different series of events, suggesting it was all part of a chaotic morning in the Mogil household. Broome said Mogil was trying to call repair people to fix a burned stove while also taking the two dogs outside to use the bathroom.

Lil, according to Broome, wasn't adapting to her new home as well as the cat and other dog. He says the dog refused to go outside, so when Mogil picked her up, she bit him. And he says Mogil spanked her one time. That, he says, is the only time Mogil ever hit the dog.

Broome says Mogil, a "neat freak," wanted to clean up behind the dogs and also suggested Mogil was beating the hose against the patio because the water inside the hose was frozen.

The other witnesses did testify the weather was below freezing that November morning, but one witness also said he saw water come out of the hose when Mogil was slinging it.

Court recessed for lunch during Johnson's testimony.

(FOX6 WBRC - MyFoxAL.com - Aug 6, 2015)

Earlier:

• Anniston bar owner, woman, arrested in animal cruelty case, police say

Anniston bar owner, woman, arrested in animal cruelty case, police say

ALABAMA -- Anniston police have arrested the owner of a Noble Street bar and a woman in a case of animal cruelty.

Capt. Allen George said the incident happened Thursday at Damn Yankee's Oyster Bar, 919 Noble St.

Witnesses told police they saw a person on the building's second-story balcony repeatedly strike a dog with a piece of garden hose. The dog, yelping in pain, either leapt or fell from the balcony, landing in an alleyway below, they said.

The dog was seen bleeding from the mouth and was picked up by the same person seen striking the dog, George said.

George said during the investigation, David Martin Mogil, 49, Anniston, the owner of Damn Yankee's, and Mary Allison Barrett, 30, of Anniston, and the dog's apparent owner, would not tell officers where the dog was taken after the incident.

After the case was presented to the Calhoun County District Attorney's Office today, a warrant was issued for Mogil for aggravated cruelty to animals.

A search warrant at the apartment over the bar was also issued in an attempt to find the dog. Barrett was also arrested for second degree hindering prosecution.

Both Mogil and Barrett are being held without bond.

George said officers were told of a possible location for the dog at an out-of-town veterinary clinic. The investigation will continue. There is no information on the dog's condition.

(al.com - Nov 21, 2014)

10-year-old mauled by family Pit Bull

GEORGIA -- Jeremy Martinez said he was petting another dog on the front porch when "Boney" got jealous and began biting his face.

Martinez lost a piece of his lower left jaw during the attack. It happened Tuesday night while Jeremy said he was sitting on his front porch petting "Bella" the family Shih Tzu when Boney got jealous and attacked him.

[Don't you love that they try to explain the reason for the attack. "Oh the pit bull got JEALOUS. That's the reason he ripped off part of my face!"]

"He grabbed me, I tried to run in, but he pulled me back," Jeremy said. "When he took the piece of my face I didn't even feel it, it was so fast."

During the attack Jeremy yelled for help, his father was able to kick and beat the dog with a water hose before he would let go. The entire time Jeremy said he had his hands in the dog's jaws trying to keep him from biting the rest of his face.

"I had my hands like this, opening his jaws pushing him," Jeremy said. "And he kept getting closer and I couldn't do anything until my dad came. He was growling. His eyes were red and wide. His ears were pointing up, his tail back."

An Athens-Clarke County Police officer responding to the scene was also attacked by Boney. The officer opened fire on the dog killing him in front of Jeremy.

"I cried," Jeremy said. "He was my best friend. It was sad, but at the same time good. I know he earned it because he took a piece of my cheek, and he bit a police officer. The police officer had to shoot him several times."

When we talked to Jeremy, he kept saying over and over how he was in shock. He could not believe Boney attacked him. Jeremy said they raised the dog since he was a puppy of just six weeks old.

"I think it is a message to not own Pit Bulls," Jeremy said. "He never bit anyone before. I will never have a Pit Bull again."

Jeremy has a number of doctor's appointments ahead of him. It will take several weeks before Jeremy will know if there is permanent damage.

His mother said the dog also played with her 18-month-old son. She said she was grateful this did not happen to her toddler.

The family says because of the medical bills they can't pay for Jeremy's school uniform. They are asking anyone who may donate an old uniform to contact them.

(CBS46 - July 31, 2014)

Louisiana: After being mauled by her pit bull, Kathleen Shaffer says it had attacked her family before but her husband refused to get rid of it

LOUISIANA -- A Dulac woman was severely injured when she was attacked by her pit bull, which she said had previously attacked other family members, including two children.

Kathleen Shaffer, 54, is being treated at Terrebonne General Medical Center with injuries to her left arm, legs, throat and chest.

“The doctor said he couldn't even count the bites on me,” Shaffer said during a hospital interview today.

Bubba, a 70-pound pit bull, is being held at the Terrebonne Parish
Animal Shelter after attacking his owner, Kathleen Shaffer,
 Sunday outside her home in Dulac. -    Chris Heller/Staff

Shaffer said she was picking up trash that had fallen out of her garbage can in her Orange Street home about 5 a.m. Sunday when her 70-pound pit bull, Bubba, attacked her.

The dog dragged her out of her home and into the front yard, she said.

“He took my pants completely off and was gnawing down my legs,” she said. “I tried to keep his mouth open and away from me, but he just kept biting me,” she said.

She managed to get to a garden hose to spray the dog in the face as the attack continued.

“When I sprayed him in the face he just started looking around to start coming at me from the other direction,” she said.

The attack went on for around 45 minutes, Shaffer said.

“I wanted to just give up, thinking that would stop him from biting, but he didn't. But as long as I stayed still he just kept biting,” she said.

Shaffer then tried to distract the dog by calling his attention to something else.

“I said 'get 'em boy' and pointed under the trailer. Once he was under my trailer, I got inside,” she said.

Shaffer said she was able to lure Bubba back into the house using slices of roast beef. She then slammed the door behind him and made her way to her neighbor's house.

Shaffer said she's afraid she won't be able to walk again.

Bubba was taken in by the Shaffer family around eight to 10 years ago, Shaffer said.

In the past couple of years, he has gotten more aggressive and has attacked several family members, including two children, she said.

The previous attacks weren't reported to the Sheriff's Office, she said.

“He went from two different animals, the dog we used to know and changed to another dog,” she said. “I was scared of him, but my husband loves him so we kept him,” she said.

Bubba is being held for 10 days at the Terrebonne Parish Animal Shelter while he is screened for rabies, said shelter manager Valerie Robinson. Then he will be euthanized.

“I'd like to see him gone because I don't want anyone else to get bitten like this or to have to go through what I'm going through now,” Shaffer said.

Terrebonne and Lafourche parish councils have both discussed stricter measures against vicious dogs in recent months after a 4-year-old Houma girl was killed in March in what police say was an unprovoked attack by her mother's pit bull mix inside their apartment.

Earlier this month, the Terrebonne Parish Council passed an ordinance that increased penalties for owners of dangerous and vicious dogs.

The Lafourche Parish Council is expected to consider a stricter dog ordinance at an Aug. 12 meeting following a July 6 pit bull attack on a Chackbay resident.

(Daily Comet (blog) - July 29, 2014)

Louisiana: Jamari Jackson, 31, beat his dog to death while his girlfriend Sammi Corley, 25, helped

LOUISIANA -- On Monday, June 16, deputies responded to 41270 Merritt Evans Road in Prairieville in reference to an animal complaint said Chief Tony Bacala.

Deputies learned that Jamari Jackson, 31, had severely beaten a pit bull dog to death for unknown reasons.

Several witnesses advised deputies that they witnessed Jackson beating the dog with a baseball bat and his girlfriend, Sammi Corley, 25, was seen hosing the dog down with a water hose while Jackson continuously beat the dog.

The dog was transferred to a local animal hospital where it later died as a result of it's injuries.

Both Jackson and Corley, both of 41270 Merritt Evans Road were arrested and charged with aggravated cruelty to animals on June 16 and booked into the Ascension Parish Jail where they have both been released on bond.

Note: I'm using the "family" label/tag because they're boyfriend and girlfriend and committed the crime together.

(Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office - June 20, 2014)

Neighbors, police step in to save woman from dog attack

MICHIGAN -- A Holland Township woman is recovering from dog bites and abrasions after she was attacked in her own backyard by two wandering pit bulls.

Family members identified the victim as Rhonda Schroeder, 61.

Schroeder was in the backyard of her Paw Paw Street home around 9 a.m. Friday when the two pit bulls attacked a smaller dog that belongs to a family friend.

 

Schroeder’s next-door neighbor, Joe Winters, ran to help Schroeder. He said she was trying to protect the smaller dog with her own body, but the larger put bulls were relentless.

Winters described grabbing the bigger of the two pit bulls around the neck, and punching it as hard as he could as Schroeder kept trying to fend off the second pit bull.

But Winters’ punches didn’t faze the dog. Then he spotted a potential weapon — the nozzle on a nearby garden hose.

“The end of it was hanging loose, and I just started beating that dog in the face as best I could,” Winters said. “And he just shook his head and went back after the other dog.”

Then Winters turned the water on. At one point, he directed the water into the dog’s snout.

But nothing seemed to work.

“I sprayed ‘em both, they’d walk back shake their head and come right back for more,” Winters said.
In the meantime, the Schroeder was being bitten and clawed as she tried to shield the smaller dog.

“She kept hollering, ‘Please help me! Help me!’” Winters said.

 

 

Minutes later, police arrived.

A Zeeland police officer shot the first pit bull. It ran off and was later found alive but wounded.
The second pit bull was shot when it charged at an Ottawa County sheriff’s deputy.

24 Hour News 8 tracked the pit bulls owners to a home just a few blocks away from the attack on Chicago Drive.

The owners told deputies the dogs apparently escaped from what appears to be a fenced-in yard.
Records show deputies had been to the home once in 2012 on a loose-dog complaint.

The pit bulls’ owners wouldn’t talk to 24 Hours News 8. However, a man who says he’s a relative did speak.

“It’s a tragedy,” he said. “That’s all I can really say.”

The pit bull owner's house

The owners of the two pit bulls were ticketed for having a loose dog.

The smaller dog suffered some puncture wounds and bruised lungs, according to the dog’s owner. He is expected to recover.

(WOODTV - June 13, 2014)

Pit Bulls Quarantined After Attacking Brentwood Officer

CALIFORNIA -- Two pit bulls are being quarantined after authorities say they attacked a Brentwood police officer, sending him to the hospital with injuries.

The officer was responding to a call about a dog roaming in the 2700-block of Pyramid Street. He encountered what he called an aggressive pit bull. Recognizing the location and the dog, he attempted to get the animal back in its backyard.

 

“As he was nearing the backyard of the property, a second dog at the property attacked the officer, biting him on the leg,” Sgt. Matthew Delallo, of Brentwood Police said.

“When the second dog attacked the officer, the first dog attacked the officer. Two pit bulls were attacking at the same time.”

Each dog had one of his legs. The officer fell and fired his gun, scaring off the animals.

By then, more than half a dozen officers had responded to the scene.

With the help of a water hose, officers were able to corral the dogs inside a makeshift area, keeping them on the property.

Frank Johnson, the owner of the dogs says he was not at home when all of this was going on and is upset that his dogs were taken away.

“I want them to give me my dogs back and I want them to leave me alone,” he said. “This is the fourth time that they have tried to take my dogs from me.”

Johnson has twice been cited because of habitual barking by his dogs, and twice his dogs have bitten someone.

But Johnson says the bites came only after a stranger approached his pets.

“My dogs ain’t no danger to the community,” said Johnson.

The dogs are in quarantine and police say the courts will decide if Johnson gets them back.

The police officer who was attacked was taken to a local hospital where he was treated and released. The dogs were taken to Ferree Kennels in McKeesport.

(CBS Local - May 22, 2014)

Iowa: Owner Wants Pit Bull Ban After Attack On Her Chihuahua

IOWA -- A Marshalltown woman wants pit bulls banned after a vicious attack on her dog.

Freckles, lucky to be alive

Grace Davis said it's fortunate the pit bull didn't turn on her or attack any of the children in her neighborhood Saturday night.

"I heard my dog yipping and I come around the corner of the van, because I took the garbage out, and he was in the pit bull's mouth and the pit bull shaking him and shaking him," said Davis.

Davis grabbed a black hose to defend her dog Freckles.

"So I started pounding the pit bull on the head with this and telling him to let go, get down," said Davis.

The pit bull eventually took off, leaving the 10-pound Chihuahua severely injured.

"It just, oh it just made you sick to see," said Davis.

Amazingly, veterinarian Dennis Drager was able to get Freckles back on his feet just five days after the attack.

"I will say, I wasn't sure that this dog was going to survive," said Drager.

As for the pit bull, it remains quarantined by the Animal Rescue League.

"We have decided that the dog needs to be treated as a vicious dog," said Animal Rescue League Director Heidi Drager.

Drager said that means the owner, who lives with a second pit bull in the back yard, will have to get insurance and meet several other conditions before getting the dog back.

Davis said the dog should be put down.

"All the little towns around have banned pit bulls and i don't know why Marshalltown doesn't," said Davis.

The city did have a ban on pit bulls several years ago, but Heidi Drager said it was changed to not single out one breed.

If the government can say that you're not allowed owning a certain kind of gun, but other guns are OK... why isn't this the same thing? 

"They are the main dog we have problems with," said Drager. "But that doesn't make them a bad breed. It's just they're a very powerful dog that needs to be handled appropriately."

The owners were cited just weeks ago for letting the pit bull run loose in the neighborhood -- and Davis doesn't feel they should get a second chance.

The owner's house and look, they've got another
pit bull. They can't be responsible with one pit
bull so what the heck, let's have two!

"I think if he was cited once it shouldn't have to go through another citing. He needs to be put down," said Davis.

Because the pit bull was just running loose, it was returned to its owner Bajro Saric. KCCI News tried to contact Saric, but were told by someone living there the dog's owner was not home.

If Saric would meet the conditions to get the dog back, it could not leave the property and if it did get it out again it would be put down.

(KCCI - Sept 2, 2011)

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