A pit bull mix is in the custody of Animal Control and will be euthanized in ten days, after biting a woman on the knee in southwest Bakersfield. Mandee Finney said she called Bakersfield Animal Control minutes after it happened, but she says they told her they could not arrive on scene that night to take the dog.
"We have kids running in this neighborhood and for Animal Control to be passive about coming out and trying to take care of this situation, was very frustrating," says Finney. The dog belonged to Finney's next door neighbors.
The pit bull got loose from it's front yard on Eisenhower Ave and bit Finney. She says it ran around the neighborhood until the owners confined the dog in their garage. The city says because the dog was confined, it was safe to wait until the next morning to respond to the call.
"Had the dog still been on the loose, patrol would've been dispatched and Animal Control would've come out. And they would've contained the dog the night it happened," said Sgt. Mary DeGeare of the Bakersfield Police Department.
The dog bit one of its owners while being corralled. They surrendered the dog to Animal Control the following morning, but would have liked them to have arrived the previous night, because of how violent the dog was.
"They should have come that night," says Mary Gonzalez. "I thought they were."
The dog will be quarantined for ten days to test for rabies, to determine if any of the bite victims need to be treated. The pit bull will then be euthanized.
