CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Leann Amos-Reed is simply attempting to make it.
“I can’t walk, I can’t stand up, I scoot up and down stairs when my husband is gone for work, I literally have to scoot up and down stairs when my son needs something to eat, if I need to make my own food. And this is an everyday thing, it hurts like h-e- double l hockey sticks,” she said.
Late last month, she was assaulted by a loose dog as she was walking on E. 147th near Kinsman.
“When the dog bit me, I screamed from the top of my lungs. It’s like kind of an out of body experience, like I screamed and screamed and screamed,” said Amos-Reed.
She said a good Samaritan called 911 and assisted get the dog far from her body.
An ambulance hurried her to the health center with major injuries to both her legs and hands. She existed 4 days.
City of Cleveland Animal Control officers came out to examine and Amos-Reed said they were attempting to recognize the dog, which might be a ‘wolf hybrid,’ which outrages her. An animal control officer informed her in an email that the dog is thought about a “level 2 threat.”
“They went out to the house 3 times and I was still told, it’s still there and it’s doing a 10-day quarantine to make sure it doesn’t have rabies, so my response was, let me remind them of how bad this is,” said Amos-Reed.
19 News cams were rolling Tuesday at the home where the dog left. Neighbors informed a team that the dog owner put a stack of bricks and rocks in front of a gate to stop the dog from going out.
The team did not see any dogs on the property nevertheless Amos-Reed identified the dog recently and published a video to social networks.
She’s stressed over the safety of others and desires the dog put down.
“I am so displeased. I feel so let down because right now it seems like you’re telling me that a wild animal or any animal’s at this points life is more important than human beings,” she said. “That could’ve been my child, that could’ve been anyone’s child and for that reason, I refuse to shut up about it,” said Amos-Reed.
Animal Control policy is to get hazardous animals however there’s been no main word on if that’s taken place.
At the time of this broadcast, a spokesperson from the city of Cleveland might not address if the dog was gotten or not.
Animal control officers informed Amos-Reed that they are preparing files to provide to the city district attorney for criminal charges however nobody has actually returned to her on if that’s taken place yet.
This story is establishing and will be upgraded.
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