CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — San Patricio County Judge David Krebs says a pack of dogs along a street near Aransas Pass are a menace to society.
While they haven't bitten anyone, residents there say the dogs are aggressive.
3NEWS received a tip about the pack of dogs roaming around Charlie Marshall Elementary School in Aransas Pass.
Along McMullen Lane on Tuesday, 3NEWS immediately found the pack living on a property with two men who authorities say they continue to deal with over the dogs and the condition of the property they all live on.
The property and the dogs are outside the Aransas Pass city limits, but still Animal Control officers for the city stand ready to take action if needed, according to Aransas Pass Police Chief Eric Blanchard.
"We had kids that would walk from this route and the dogs would chase them, so now Animal Control has been very proactive on the mornings, they patrol regularly at hotspots, this being one of them even though it’s not in our jurisdiction," Blanchard said.
Aransas Pass Sr. Animal Control Officer Christy Generali told 3NEWS if the dogs are caught in the city's jurisdiction, they can be impounded.
There have been reports of the pack of dogs being very aggressive towards pretty much anyone who works, lives or just happens to come down the street. Even at the cemetery across the street people have been confronted by the pack.
"Six dogs are in your face barking at you it gets a little frustrating," resident Gavin Mayfield said. He works close to where the pack tends to be.
Animal Control officers in San Patricio County said these dogs are the offspring of dogs they’ve already had to remove from this place before.
"We’ve addressed it with Animal Control for many many months and it continues to be a problem," San Patricio County Sheriff Oscar Rivera said. "We went with Animal Control back on December the 6th, issued the owner six tickets for keeping dogs that weren’t vaccinated."
There have been so many incidents that San Patricio Animal Control now has a thick file on the two men who live here with the dogs.
One of the men hasn’t admitted to owning all of the dogs but said that they will all be gone by Wednesday. He says the dogs have been accepted into a program where they will be hog hunting.
Krebs believes this issue will eventually be settled in a court and that the dogs will end up being removed.