CLEVELAND (WOIO/Gray News) – An Ohio female assaulted by a wolf-hybrid late last month says she feels “a sense of peace” now that the dog remains in custody.
Leann Amos-Reed was assaulted by a loose dog while she was out walking July 31 in Cleveland’s Mt. Pleasant community. She says a good Samaritan called 911 and assisted get the dog far from her body.
An ambulance hurried her to the healthcare facility with severe injuries to both her leg and hands, and she was hospitalized for 4 days, WOIO reports.
Weeks after the occurrence, a spokesperson for the City of Cleveland validated Thursday the Division of Animal Control Services took the vicious “wolf-hybrid” dog.
Amos-Reed says it shouldn’t have actually taken this long.
“I feel a sense of peace, not complete peace internally because it still took 17 days for it to get picked up. Another incident could’ve happened in between July 31st to August the 16th when it got picked up,” she said.
City of Cleveland Animal Control officers examined the attack. Two dogs, an Akita and a wolf-hybrid, lived at the owner’s house, and public records reveal there was “confusion” about which dog assaulted Amos-Reed.
The wolf-hybrid was determined as a “Level 2 Threat.”
Department policy is to get hazardous dogs, however that didn’t take place up until WOIO began asking concerns previously today about the weekslong examination.
“They went out to the house three times, and I was still told, ‘It’s still there. 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,” Amos-Reed said.
Amos-Reed and next-door neighbors said they are alleviated the wolf-hybrid remains in custody. The attack occurred near a primary school, and school begins on Monday. Neighbors state the dog owner put a stack of bricks and rocks in front of a gate to stop the dog from going out.
With the animal in custody, Amos-Reed says she can now concentrate on her healing, which she says medical professionals think might take one to 2 years.
The wolf-hybrid is being kept at the city’s kennel and doesn’t have rabies.
The dog’s owner, De’Cardo March, is due in court Wednesday for arraignment on criminal charges connected to the dog attack. If founded guilty, he confronts a $1,000 fine and approximately 6 months in jail.
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