I wanted to share what happened to my family dogs so that others would be aware.
My family has had two small terriers. A jack russell named Jackson and a fox terrier named Lucy. Jack was 13, Lucy was 14. They were amazing family dogs who gave us more love and happiness than I ever thought would be possible.
Both of our babies were brutally killed on Tuesday night when two pit bulls got into the backyard through a hole in the fence. They followed our two small dogs into the doggie door and chased them down in our home. Luckily, no people were hurt, but we lost both of our dogs.
Animal control had been called by a neighbor earlier that day, however they did not come get the pitbulls. The attacks happened between 5 and 7 pm. Animal control would also not come to retrieve the pit bulls because "their 8 hour shift was over". And coming out to our home, where these beasts were running free with the bodies of our babies, would be on their time and they did not want to come.
The Houston Police Dept. told us that they would be leaving the dogs IN OUR HOME. Without guard. Until animal control would come out the next day. They told us if anything happened to the pit bulls that WE would be held on animal cruelty charges. If we shot the dogs, it would be a class C misdemeanor. These dogs were on OUR property. These dogs killed OUR dogs. And they were just going to leave them there.
We called a local news station and as soon as HPD realized they were coming the dogs were loaded into the back of a patrol car.
To top it all off, the dogs had no ID tags. However, if someone did happen to come forward and claim them, the dogs would be able to go back into the neighborhood and keep living and breathing because it is PROPERTY on PROPERTY damage.
I am absolutely sick that this has happened to our dogs. They were wonderful wonderful pets and did NOT deserve this. Any thoughts and prayers are appreciated. Hug your babies a little bit tighter tonight.
This is a link to the story:
Three dogs killed in two separate pit bull attacks over 24-hour period | abc13.com