Sunday morning attack left one dog seriously injured, as well.
A woman was seriously injured when she tried to break up a dog fight on the 400 block of Ridgeland Sunday, April 21. Police received a call for a woman "screaming in distress" at 10:31 a.m. They discovered two dogs were attacking each other, and the victim had attempted to break them apart, according to the report. She suffered "extensive injuries to both of her hands," requiring her to have surgery, police said. The "victim dog," which was taken to an animal hospital, also required surgery. DuPage County Animal Control officers are following up with the aggressor dog, police said. The report also said a citation was issued to one offender for having a dog at large, but police did not immediately release information on the dog owner. This …
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Victims were not the dogs' owners and did not raise them, she said.
A family member of the two people who were viciously attacked by a pair of pit bulls Monday evening said her family is going through a lot right now. Nicole Caley, granddaughter of victims Robert Moore and Patricia Koprowski, said Tuesday she is frustrated by the quick rush to judgment by people in the community who do not have all the facts about what actually happened in the home on Kenilworth Monday. "Everybody has the opinion that they (her grandparents) owned the dogs and must have mistreated them," she said, referring to some of the comments in a previous article on Elmhurst Patch. "I don't know a lot about the dogs—they were my mom's dogs—but when they first went to my grandma's I said this was a bad idea. It just so happens that …
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Doremus Jessup
2:15 pm on Friday, April 26, 2013
If you want the Elmhurst Police to ticket owners of unleashed dogs you are going to have to bribe them. Not in the classical sense like slipping them a twenty but in the new sense like these grants they get for seat belt checks, D.U.I enforcement, and Railroad crossing gate violations. Come up with some grant where the Department can rake in some money issuing tickets for unleashed dogs because … more ›