Kansas City Animal Control officers are looking for a dog that attacked a woman and her dog during their evening walk on a Northland trail on Thursday.
The attack happened near N.W. 64th Street and Waukomis Drive, on the Line Creek Community Center trails.
"We went off of the trail onto the stream where she could get a drink and sniff around and that’s when this lady showed up with this other dog,” said Stephanie Cobb. "The dog was pulling her towards us off the trail. It broke the harness and charged us, latched onto Dorothy and me. The other woman couldn't get this dog off.”
According to Cobb, a man walking nearby rushed over to help when the dog suddenly let go. The man helped the owner take the dog away.
Cobb said she never saw the woman again.
"I love animals but to see this happen, it’s horrible. I would never hurt an animal. If I knew my animal would hurt someone else, I would never take it out in public,” she said as tears ran down her face.
Cobb’s 13-year-old dog Dorothy was in surgery for three hours. She got stitches all the way from the top of her ears to the bottom of her throat. Cobb also went to the Emergency Room. She suffered from five puncture wounds on her hands from trying to pull the dogs apart.
"As far as types of dogs, it was a Pitbull. But not all Pitbulls I have seen done that,” she said.
According to the Kansas City Pet Project, not all Pitbulls are aggressive.
"We see every type of breed that comes here on bite quarantine. We have little dogs, big dogs, medium dogs. Majority of them are not Pitbulls that come here,” said Tori Fugate, with the Kansas City Pet Project.
Instead, Fugate said when a dog is aggressive there’s usually an underlying problem.
"Really with any dog could have an aggressive behavior or have some behavior concerns what breed they are. It really just depends on how they are raised,” she said.
Anyone with information about the dog or the dog’s owner is asked to call the Kansas City Animal Health hotline at 816-513-9808.
