DC dog attack caught by security camera
D.C. animal control officers are seeking the two dogs captured on this surveillance video, chasing a group of youngsters to the top of a car and, later, biting a man who came to their aide.
The incident took place Friday on the 1200 block of Queen Street in Northeast D.C.
“It was scary and amazing,” one of the youths told Fox News.
Andre Hawthorne, a 54-year-old usher at Nationals Park, suffered bites when he used a pocket knife to try and keep the dogs away from the youths.
“When one of the dogs came, I let him have my left arm,” Hawthorne explained. “… And while I stuck him with the knife, then the second dog comes.”
Hawthorne’s stepson came to help him, swinging a baseball bat at the dogs.
“If it wasn’t for him, I might be worse then I am today,” Hawthorne said.
“I’m just glad to be alive,” he added. “But I’m sad that the owner allowed this to happen.”
The dogs and their owner were not home when a D.C. animal control officer visited Monday evening.
The D.C. Department of Health says it has ordered the dogs be impounded and will have animal control officers patrolling the neighborhood until the dogs are taken off the street.
Posted by jwoestendiek April 25th, 2012 under Muttsblog, videos.
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