ROSS TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKRC) – A local 15-year-old girl is recovering from a dog attack.
The teen was bitten on her eye, leg, and arm multiple times until people could finally pull the animal off the girl. The dog believed to be behind the attack is still at the home in Ross Township.
Brooklyn Wocher and her siblings were playing outside at grandma’s house when the neighbor’s dog rushed her. She said that she remembers bits and pieces of being wrestled to the ground and chewed on multiple times. Brooklyn Wocher was then rushed to Children’s Hospital to stop the bleeding.
She’s on antibiotics because the dog’s owner admitted to police that it didn’t have its shots.
“It don’t hurt that bad, but sometimes it really hurts,” said Brooklyn Wocher.
The reporting officer noted that the dog’s owner “never once asked me if the victim was okay and was more upset thinking the dog warden might put it down.”
Local 12 spoke with the family who “didn’t deny” their black lab attacked the girl. They claimed their 7-year-old granddaughter told Brooklyn Wocher to not pet their dog, but she did anyway. Brooklyn Wocher said that she never touched the dog.
“After they got the dog [or] put it in the house or whatever they did with it, the adult thing would have been to come over and check on her and make sure she was okay,” said Brooklyn Wocher’s mom, Jessica Wocher.
Jessica Wocher said that the Butler County Dog Warden called her on Wednesday. She can press charges, and then it’ll be registered as a vicious dog. The owner also has to get the dog up to date on its shots, or else the warden can take it.
“I don’t know the dog or them. It could have been a sweet, innocent dog and just snapped, and that’s what worries us about the kids being there. What if it would just snap again? It ain’t about trying to ‘get you.’ It’s you got kids there that you need to think about too,” Jessica Wocher said.
Brooklyn Wocher said that it could’ve been deadly if the dog had attacked her younger sister.
“She’s so little, so, like, if the dog attacked her, she could, she would die,” Brooklyn Wocher said.
Brooklyn Wocher went back to school on Wednesday. Her mom said that she’ll have the bandages on for another week and will have to see her doctor again for a checkup.
Jessica Wocher wants the dog to be put down, but state law doesn’t specify how many bites would automatically trigger euthanasia. Lawmakers, however, are debating changes to Ohio’s vicious dog laws.
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