by Timothy Rutt
A woman and a dog were injured in a Sunday afternoon attack on Glenrose where an unleashed bulldog chased the another dog into his own house and attacked it in the dog's own living room. The woman, 49, was taken to the hospital to treat injuries sustained trying to break up the fight.
Our friend Debbi Swanson Patrick said that she and her dog Kirby were seeing off some visiting friends Sunday afternoon on the front porch of their Glenrose home. Two neighborhood bulldogs were running loose, spotted Kirby, and ran after him, Patrick said. Patrick said the larger of the dogs chased Kirby right into her house and began attacking him in the home, biting his legs where he still had stitches from recent surgery.
Patrick said the bulldog was hard to subdue, as he had no collar. One of her guests suffered bites on her hand as she tried to subdue the dog, which ran way. The other bulldog did not enter the house but was threatening her guests, who had come up to render assistance, Patrick said.
Patrick said that paramedics, sheriff, and animal control arrived to handle the situaton. The injured woman was treated at Huntington Hospital and released. Kirby was taken to the vet, and Patrick says he's doing fine, altho' he's heavily medicated.
Patrick said that the dogs were still in the neighborhood, although confined to their yard, but according to Lt. Duane Allen of the Altadena Sheriff's station, the dogs were taken by county animal control.
UPDATE: Debbi has added an update in the comments section.
