KINSTON, N.C. (WITN) -Residents in a single neighborhood in Kinston say they’ve been coping with the damaging stray canine for a couple of month now, and that three folks have been bitten thus far.
Billy Davenport is likely one of the individuals who have been bitten.
“It was broad daylight, you know. it was standing right in between the doors and windows, and the dog snuck up behind and bit me. that was the second time it bit somebody. I didn’t know that at the time,” Davenport stated.
According to the residents, the neighborhood has a historical past of getting a excessive focus of stray animals, the place they normally simply roam round deserted trailers and fields, however this canine has been displaying violent, aggressive habits in an unpredictable method.
The Lenoir County Health Department says efforts to seize the canine have failed, with residents saying that it’s fast sufficient to flee with simply the meals within the traps at instances.
Pamela Brown, the director of the Lenoir County Health Department says it is necessary for the general public to steer clear of this canine for each the protection of the general public and the animal.
“A lot of the time the members of the public try to be proactive in finding an owner or a home for an animal, but as soon as you are aware of that animal, it is just fine to give us a call,” Brown defined.
Brown added that stray animals from greater, city areas can undergo buildings and fields faster than others, making circumstances like this more difficult.
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