Josey
member
My mother was out for a morning walk. A monstrous black dog chased her home. I went out and looked around, no dog. A couple of hours later my siding contractor was yelling for me to call 911. I figured one of them fell off of a ladder. I went out and I saw the hound of the Baskervilles!! This looked like a cross between Marmaduke and a gargoyle. It was HUGE! The dog had been in a fight nd was bleeding and in a bad temper. It had run the siding crew into their truck. One of the crew told me he hit it with a flat bar and it growled at him. I figured this to be a tough dog. I grabbed my H&R 22 and my BHP for back up. I called 911 and told them there was a vicious dog trying to bite people and gave my address. I told 911 I would shoot the dog if it threatened anyone. The dispatcher said Animal Control would be on the way. Animal Control is operated by the county jail here. Trustee prisoners are sent out in a county truck with a cage to pick up animals. They arrived after about 15 minutes. The first thing that popped into my head was Laurel and Hardy. One guy started calling the dog and patting his leg. No way. The other guy went to look the dog over. The dog bit him. The second guy goes back to the truck to get the tranq pistol. The first guy gets the stick with a noose on the end. He can't figure out how it works! The dog bites the second guy again as he gets in range to shoot it with a tranq dart. The second guy figures out how the stick works and collars the dog. The dog pulls hard and slips the noose. A chase runs over three yards until the tranq kicks in. The two guys had to then haul the dog back to the truck and put it in the cage. They then left to take the dog to the vet for testing and treatment. The guy that got bit went to the ER and then they went back to jail. The odd thing for me was that no police units responded at all. The siding contractors thought that odd too.