Dog attack victim says animals are still roaming street
Nivedita Ghosh talks to Cayman27
(CNS): A woman who was mauled by four bulldogs raised her concerns on social media this week that nothing is being done about the incident some two weeks after she and her own pet dog were attacked by the dogs, which had not been secured. Although police claim to be investigating the incident, Nivedita Ghosh said that not only has she heard nothing from them but the dogs have been out on the road roaming free again.
Ghosh received bites to her legs and abdomen during the frightening attack, which happened as she walked her pet Shitzu on 8 January in the Prospect area. The owner of the dogs has claimed that they were let out by someone else that day but Ghosh said she has seen the gates open since. Pressing for some action, she said she does not want the dogs euthanized, just properly secured when the owners are not home.
Speaking to Cayman27, Ghosh wanted to know what the authorities were waiting for before they took action. She said, “The dogs are escaping repeatedly, routinely, frequently and you know something has to be done about it. Will something be done about it after you see a dead body? Is that what we are waiting for?”
It’s very simple, a dog bites, it gets put down. The dog can never be trusted again.
I bet the owner is a Caymanian. So he/she will not have to worry about taking responsibility for any of this. Cayman government will not bother them and neither will the police. Welcome to third world.
I think we should put them off having pets altogether by having proper, enforced and proper, more effective controls so that people are unable to routinely turn their dogs loose to roam the streets, breed, tip up garbage bins and gang up on people, young horses, other dogs and God knows what next. Roaming dogs should be picked up and irresponsible owners traced through enforced chips or licencing and fined or prosecuted. However, not so draconian that exception couldn’t be made for the odd escapees as we all know pets can get away sometimes despite best efforts by responsible owners. When I walk my dogs (on leads) we are constantly being hounded by strays. When I wake up in a morning and go to work almost everyone’s trash is all over the streets. It really is a bad problem in Cayman.
On January 10th on a strata property in the Fairbanks Road area my sister and I were taking out the garbage and giving our two Shih Tzu’s a last bathroom break for the evening. We were attacked from behind by an unleashed dog within our strata. If we had not been carrying a large cardboard box, which we used to beat off the attacking dog it would have killed our dogs for sure whilst the persons with the dog
looked on. As a result of the attack both Shih Tzu dogs and my sister required medical attention and treatment. The dogs were badly bitten and my sister fell whilst trying to protect our dogs and as a result sustained knee and ankle injuries and has to be in an air cast for several weeks. Turns out this dog has already killed another dog on the strata previously and nothing was done about that either. We reported our attack to the police and the animal control officer. To date nothing has been done about this either. But we get to pay hundreds of dollars for the medical treatments and now have two very
stressed and scared dogs when outside all through no fault or our own.
If a dog attacks isn’t it considered to be dangerous?
What about a repeated attacker?
Do we not have a right to feel safe when we step outside of our homes?
Are there any laws to protect us from attacking dogs?
If there are no laws to protect us from attacking dogs why
do we have an animal control unit?
More and more people are being attacked by dogs all the
time, a lot of the attacks are going unreported. This problem isn’t just going to go away. It is an escalating epidemic fueled by irresponsible and uncaring pet owners.
These attacks always happen to other people and until you
become one of the other people you just don’t realize how vulnerable and helpless you are when a dog attacks you.
It’s painful, stressful, and very expensive and you are NOT treated like a victim.
This is the same dog that has vicious killed a Yorkshire Terrier and attacked a small Maltese dog on the same complex. That makes 4 dogs on one complex that this dog has viciously attacked. When does it stop? The irrisponsible owner of the vicious dog has not even offered compensation to these owners for their vet and personal medical bills. This dog is a menace on the complex and the DOA or RCIPS continue to take no action. All the owners with small dogs do not feel safe to walk in their own homes. What does it take to get some action?
Someone needs to get rid of that dog.
Doubt she will get much of a response or reaction from the proper Authorities as it is Prospect area. It is not exactly “Admirals landing”. Jus saying.
In my opinion, when someone is physically assaulted by dogs, the owner should be treated as if they had committed the assault themselves. Having untrained dogs roaming in an unsecured property is as bad as leaving a loaded gun around, hoping a child won’t pick it up. To be attacked by a pack of four dogs must be absolutely terrifying, and could lead to the death or permanent scarring of a child, or even an adult. The owner of the dogs should face the consequences and if the dogs are seen roaming again, then they should be removed. I’ve never known anywhere like Cayman, where laws are ignored and flouted yet nothing is done. No wonder respect for the law here is so low. That’s one thing Commissioner Kernohan understood and was working on before he was forced to resign.