Arkie
08-22-2007, 08:19 PM
Dogs break into house, maul disabled woman in bed (http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/08/dogs-break-into.html)
Two pit bulls forced their way into a house and mauled a disabled woman while she was lying in bed, according to local media reports.
"Bloodied with wounds that would later require hospitalization, she fired a gun at the dogs -- missing -- and fought her way to a car parked in her Gig Harbor driveway to wait for rescue," police tell the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The (Tacoma, Wash.) News Tribune reports that the dogs came from a neighbor's yard and appear to have entered the woman's house through a pet door. The paper says she suffered "severe injuries" in the attack. KING-TV says 59-year-old Sue Ann Gorman's house is "blood splattered."
“It’s probably the worst mauling our guys have ever seen,” Pierce County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Ed Troyer tells the Tacoma paper.
The dogs killed another neighbor's Jack Russell terrier when he entered the house during the commotion.
“We never saw it coming," Zach Martin says. He owns one of the pit bulls and was watching the other one at the time of the attack. "They’re the kinds of dogs you’d let play with your babies.”
KING-TV has footage from its interview with Martin.
Officials say both pit bulls were turned over to the Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County. They are likely to be killed.
"If you have one that's well bred, they can be an absolutely amazing companion animal," Brenda Barnette, head of the Humane Society in Seattle, tells the Post-Intelligencer. "If you get one that's of questionable breeding, or maybe of a fighting background, it can be a dangerous weapon."
This story reminds us of George, the heroic Jack Russell terrier who was killed while protecting a group of children from two pit bulls.
Two pit bulls forced their way into a house and mauled a disabled woman while she was lying in bed, according to local media reports.
"Bloodied with wounds that would later require hospitalization, she fired a gun at the dogs -- missing -- and fought her way to a car parked in her Gig Harbor driveway to wait for rescue," police tell the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The (Tacoma, Wash.) News Tribune reports that the dogs came from a neighbor's yard and appear to have entered the woman's house through a pet door. The paper says she suffered "severe injuries" in the attack. KING-TV says 59-year-old Sue Ann Gorman's house is "blood splattered."
“It’s probably the worst mauling our guys have ever seen,” Pierce County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Ed Troyer tells the Tacoma paper.
The dogs killed another neighbor's Jack Russell terrier when he entered the house during the commotion.
“We never saw it coming," Zach Martin says. He owns one of the pit bulls and was watching the other one at the time of the attack. "They’re the kinds of dogs you’d let play with your babies.”
KING-TV has footage from its interview with Martin.
Officials say both pit bulls were turned over to the Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County. They are likely to be killed.
"If you have one that's well bred, they can be an absolutely amazing companion animal," Brenda Barnette, head of the Humane Society in Seattle, tells the Post-Intelligencer. "If you get one that's of questionable breeding, or maybe of a fighting background, it can be a dangerous weapon."
This story reminds us of George, the heroic Jack Russell terrier who was killed while protecting a group of children from two pit bulls.