Dog pack attacks family leaving 2 hospitalized; dogs still on the loose

CLEVELAND — The sufferer of a vicious pet assault in Cleveland’s Slavic Village community are talking out in hopes of finding the canine off of the streets.

Angely Negron spoke to News 5 from her MetroHealth healthcare facility place. She and her 75-yr outdated grandmother, Nieves Gonzales, have been there due to the fact the attack on Tuesday evening.

All-around 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, Negron and a good friend were buying up her daughters from her grandmother’s household on Meade Avenue.

They observed a pack of about 6 puppies in the distance but didn’t feel a great deal of it.

But when her 14-yr aged daughter walked out of the residence and Negron started clearing out the backseat, Negron observed the canines functioning at her, whole power. She mentioned pushed her daughter into the vehicle.

“I imagined that I was heading to be in a position to get myself in the automobile, way too, and close the doorway but it failed to occur like that. My legs are still out of the car or truck and as my legs are out of the motor vehicle the other puppies started out biting,” she explained.

Her daughter managed to get out of the other aspect of the auto and run inside of to assistance. Thalia Henriquez, Negron’s cousin, reported all she listened to was screaming.

“She ran into the household yelling ‘dogs are attacking my mother, dogs are attacking my mom,’” explained Henriquez.

Gonzales, their grandmother, took a pot of scorching h2o from the kitchen and threw it on the dogs but Henriquez explained which is when they turned their interest to her. She stated her grandma fell trying to get again to the property and the puppies locked down on their grandma’s leg, her higher human body was inside of the dwelling and her decreased human body was exterior of it.

“They just latched on and they was not letting go,” said Henriquez. “The other canine was struggling to go toward my grandmother’s neck and it was basically dragging her off the small porch she experienced.”

Negron stated she didn’t know her grandmother was being attacked and kept inquiring her good friend in the car or truck to drive her to a medical center.

“I’m losing much too substantially blood. I could come to feel myself like going in and out, like I’m coming in but I’m likely out and my mate states, ‘We’ll choose you to the clinic. I just have to get the pet dogs away from biting your grandma,’” reported Negron.

They mentioned that pal then strike the pet dogs with her vehicle various periods, forcing the pet dogs to let go of their grandmother’s legs.

“She was just dead fat at that minute because she couldn’t wander and I was just pulling her in and then I ultimately obtained her in the residence,” claimed Henriquez.

Cleveland Law enforcement and EMT arrived on scene and transported equally ladies to the hospital but in the chaos of it all, the pet dogs remaining. Loved ones users did control to just take a several small clips of the pet dogs going for walks absent. In it, you can see they have collars on.

Negron has numerous deep wounds covering her legs and her arm. She reported her elbow is broken since of how deep the dog’s teeth sunk in.

“Right now, I will not even know what I’m going to be able to do when I am heading to go back to get the job done, to choose treatment of my children. What am I heading to do to have a ordinary daily life again,” she explained.

She included that physicians told their loved ones that if the pet dog would’ve bit one particular inch further on her grandmother’s ankle, she would’ve misplaced her foot.

Now, the loved ones is hoping to locate the pet dogs and the id of their owner.

Cleveland Police noted that an hour just before the attack on Negron and her grandmother, they responded to a further dog attack in Slavic Village. They explained a 7-12 months-aged was transported to UH Rainbow Babies and Kid’s in critical ailment.

Information 5 is functioning to study more about the independent incident.

Cleveland Law enforcement reported investigating the dogs whereabouts is managed by Animal Care and Regulate. However, a spokesperson for the Division of Animal Care and Command told Information 5 the department does not have any acknowledged information and facts relevant to this incident.

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