CHINA SPRING, Texas (KWTX) – Residents of the Eagle Canyon neighborhood in China Spring are now voicing their concerns after one man’s miniature schnauzer was allegedly killed by a neighbor’s great dane.
Last Friday resident George Tomes said his dog Daisy had gotten out of their yard, something she’s rarely done in their seven years at that house, but sadly this time it cost her life.
“She got out last Friday and she was mauled to death by a great dane that lives across the street over here,” Tomes recalled.
Video taken by Tomes from his front yard shows the two great danes allegedly responsible roaming the street.
He explains that they are constantly escaping and that unfortunately this is not the first time they’ve shown aggression.
“Prior to the incident Friday when Daisy was killed three people had been bitten, and those have been reported,” said Linda Drake, Tomes’s neighbor.
She says she was actually the first one to be bitten by these dogs, another resident the second. The third was a woman visiting Tomes at his home.
But it was only after the death of Daisy that something was done by the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office.
“Monday they came out, they were here for hours, and they finally did cite the people, the owners I mean,” Tomes said, “the dogs were still out when the police arrived, the dogs were still roaming the streets.”
Deputies got animal control to come and take the two great danes, who are now being held at the pound, something Drake says they wish had been done after the first or even second incident.
“Had they done then what they did yesterday, either pick them up or at least go and look at the back of the fence, they had never been back on the property, then the other lady might not have to have been bit and little Daisy might not had to have been killed,” Drake shared.
Lieutenant Jeremy Bost with the sheriff’s office says the dogs’ case will now go before a judge, and if they are classified as dangerous dogs the owners will have to pay a fine and secure their yard before they can get them back. They will then have to follow a list of strict requirements in order to keep the dogs.
However, Tomes says that if the dogs are allowed back and get out again, they’re worried next time it won’t be a dog they go after. “I see kids riding their bicycles down the street here and I feel for their life,” Tomes said.
Which is why neighbors are pushing for more to be done, in this case and with every aggressive dog case.
“People think they’re safe and I think the laws are lacking that protect people from dogs that are allowed to roam,” Drake said.
Lt. Bost also explained that the reason these dogs weren’t taken in the past is because when deputies got there they either couldn’t be found or were already secured, but this past Monday one of the dogs came at a deputy aggressively.
We did also reach out to the owner of the great danes for comment who said there is no proof that it was her dog and that she does not believe it was.
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