Family wants answers after dog was killed by unleashed dogs
DEL CITY, Okla. (KFOR) — A family is mourning after their dog was killed by three pit bulls.
The family called 911 when the incident happened, and Del City Police and Animal Control came out to assess the situation. However, neighbors feel the owners of the dogs only received a slap on the wrist.
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“Those dogs, they are loose, they run the street wild without their owner, without having a leash, and they chase you up and down the streets,” Kimyah Taylor, attacked by dogs said. “They chase children, they chase grown people, and the owners never do anything about it.”
A mother is looking for answers after three pit bulls attacked her and her dog while on her front porch.
“Witnessing that was the most devastating thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life, because I couldn’t do anything about it,” Taylor said.
Her children watched it unfold before their eyes with little they could do to help.
“They took my best friend away from me,” Cheyenne Fisher said. “They took someone I love, someone I cared about, and someone that was in my life since he was a baby, and it sucks that he’s not here and I just wish he was.”
Neighbors tried helping, but would to no avail. Both men were bit in the process.
“I went up there to try to break it up, and it was three dogs, and I just see another dog come around from behind and bite me right on my behind,” Lemon Wilson, neighbor said.
“I walked out to the street seeing all the pit bulls jumping up on her, trying to get the little dachshund,” Jett Wilson, neighbor said. “So, that’s when I ran over to try to break up the pit bull from the dachshund and that’s when the pit bull got me.”
Del City Police and Animal Control came the next day, issued a citation and mandated a quarantine for the dogs because they didn’t have a rabies vaccine.
They went on to say, the owners told them they would be moving soon, but police haven’t been back to check.
Taylor says they still live there, and the dogs still roam around the neighborhood, unleashed and unchecked.
“I worry about my my kids,” Taylor said. “I worry about the safety of other community people. I worry that those dogs are going to get out and they’re going to really hurt someone else, a person. I’m worried that they’re going to kill another dog or maybe a person.”
Del City PD said since we brought this to their attention again, they plan to go back out and see how things are going with the owners.
They also said they will take further action if necessary.
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