LANCASTER – Animal control officers this weekend caught the stray dog they say bit a toddler in the face just before Christmas, according to the County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control.
The white Pit Bull/Labrador mix dog was caught Friday near the 1700 block of Lancaster Boulevard, said public information officer Evelina Villa.
Villa said county animal control officers have been patrolling a designated area of Lancaster for the elusive dog since Dec. 21, 2011. She says on that day, around 8:30 a.m., a 3 ½ year-old girl was standing in her front yard on the 44000 block of 18th Street West in Lancaster, when the dog ran onto the property and bit the little girl in her face. The dog was scared off by an adult family member and the child was rushed to a local hospital for treatment, Villa said.
Villa said officers transferred an off-road vehicle from another animal care center to the Lancaster Center recently to help track the dog, but the dog continued to elude officers.
“We have spotted the dog on a few occasions since the attack, but it eluded our officers by running into the desert,” said Marcia Mayeda, Director of the County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control. “Fortunately, we have been able to track the dog’s travel patterns over the past few weeks. A team of county animal control officers were able to catch the dog over the weekend while it was heading back towards the desert from a local Lancaster neighborhood.”
Villa said the dog has no microchip and is being held under observation at the Lancaster Animal Care Center.
She said, per policy, the dog will be put down after four working days, plus the date of impound. This means the dog will be put down by Thursday, Jan. 26, if the owner does not come forward.
“If you have any idea who might own the dog, give us a call,” says Villa.
Anyone with any information on the dog is asked to call Sgt. Chavez at the Lancaster Animal Care Center at 661-974-8343.
Matt S says
Damn homegrown tweekers and their damn dogs!
abc says
yeah sure! there were so many wild pit bulls/mixes running around here for the last 50 yrs….please! this is a ghetto problem and one brought here by the ghetto trash that lives here now.
Matt S says
That’s right dumb [removed]. 15 years ago it was dobies, and before that it was shepards. Tweekers now like pitties. But I guess you believe the 1,000’s of tweekers here take good care of their dogs? Along with their kids. Why do you think Lancaster was the child abuse capital of the state in 95? The same tweekers the people 50yrs ago raised. To be tweekers. Stand proud behind your white boys, idiot!
abc says
im not white you dumb sack of [removed]!
Matt S says
Seem to be more then willing to be.
abc says
nope. not at all. there are no white ppl in my family either. it probably drives you crazy to know that someone from a minority can stand ghetto people. in your mind it has to be a white person. You are soooo pathetic!!!!!!
Matt S says
A minority who wishes he was white.
gloria ramirez says
Who cares if someone is white or not? I have white people in my family. Is there something you would like to say about that?
AVer says
Agreed!
gloria ramirez says
So thanks to these local ghetto people who don’t license their dogs and do not breed them properly, we now have loose dogs running everywhere and biting people! and now a dog that was born innocent but mistreated by ghetto thugs is going to have to be put to sleep because it turned feral and bit a little girl. thanks, ghetto people of the AV!