Two Yucca Valley residents reported being attacked by loose dogs Monday morning. The first attack was reported at 6:43 a.m. when a man was walking near Paxton and Balsa Avenue in Yucca Valley. The man told investigators he was walking when he was confronted by two large dogs that chased him and he was bitten by a white pit bull mix. The man told animal control he received a puncture wound to his leg from a dog bite. Animal Control Officer Kim Casey located the white pit bull Tuesday afternoon and impounded it pending a hearing to determine if it was a dangerous dog.
The second incident was reported about three hours later. An 82-year-old woman was walking in the 8300 block of Grand Avenue with her three Shetland sheepdogs when she was attacked by two pit bulls. She tried to save her dogs by picking them up, which caused the pit bulls to jump up on her and knock her over in their attempts to get at her dogs. Two of her dogs were gravely injured and it’s not known if they will survive. The woman broke her tail bone when she was knocked down, and she also received bites and suffered numerous abrasions and scratches. Casey located the dogs and they were impounded and put into quarantine pending their hearing for being a potentially dangerous dog.
