EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Two men had to be hospitalized after a neighbor’s dog attacked them early Wednesday morning on the 2600 block of Nations Avenue. Two El Paso Police officers eventually shot and killed the pet to neutralize the situation.
Two men hospitalized after dog attack in Central El Paso
Witnesses tell KTSM they’ve seen the dog out wandering days prior to the attack, something El Paso Animal Services (EPAS) says was the owner’s responsibility to get under control.
“Our pets are our responsibility as owners. Anything that our pets either come about or are loose, it’s our responsibility to go ahead and make sure that the dog is properly confined or has everything that they require. At the point in time, the dog is at large or is causing either a nuisance or causes damage to somebody or another pet then we are responsible,” said Yazmine Quezada, a field supervisor with EPAS.
Quezada says the attack on Nations Avenue was a rare one for officers to respond to. Between January and August of this year, EPAS has received around 21,000 calls, and from those, about 800 were in regard to exposures and bites…