Mar 23, 2007 1:28 am US/Central
Pit Bull Attacks Agent Trying To Protect Neighbors
by Joel Thomas
FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News) ―
The actions of an animal control agent may have saved a child in Fort Worth from a pit bull attack.
Jennifer Phillips was responding to a call of stray dogs in the 2300 block of Northwest 26th Street. Animal control had been called to the same location before for the same stray dogs.
Phillips cornered the pair, a white pit bull and a black pit bull mix. When she saw the two heading toward an elderly woman and children across the street, she got in the path of the animals.
"I looked at the black one; the white one came up, bit me on my stomach, my leg, my arm and my wrists," said Phillips. "I turned around to get the white one, and he came around this side and grabbed me on my arm."
"The white one, when it came, it grabbed hold of her arm," said witness Vera Barrow. "I told my nephew, 'Oh my God, they've got her down!' And he ran out there, and she was bleeding."
"A gentleman, a citizen, came to help me, and I told him to press the button on my radio," said Phillips. "I started calling for backup, and they sent police and ambulance."
Phillips suffered deep, ripping bites to her wrist and minor bites elsewhere. But that, she says, is part of the job.
"There are kids out there. There are older people out there, and that was my main concern, to keep those dogs away from those people," she said. "I'd rather me get bit doing my job rather than a 3-year-old kid getting bit."
Neighbors say the dog owners were often abusive with their pets. The dogs are in city custody now and will likely be destroyed.
(CBS 11 News)
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