Miami Gardens dog attack highlights dual problem of loose dogs, crowded shelters

Two weeks ago, Tommie Rhodriguez woke up around 1:30 a.m. to a horrible noise outside her bedroom window. Even before she checked her Miami Gardens home’s camera footage, she knew what was outside: unleashed dogs.

The dogs were chasing stray cats and jumping onto a car. They ran away when she flicked her porch lights on, she said. But the dogs returned sometime later and killed a cat.

About a week later, just a few blocks away, 71-year-old Doreen Richards Broadbelt was killed in a dog attack as she walked to work on the morning of Labor Day. Broadbelt’s family said she had been complaining for a while about dogs bothering her on her walks to work…

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