CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A male pit bull mix was caught by Animal Control Services officers Friday afternoon after an initial attempt to capture two of the dogs Thursday. The stray captured and a female pit bull mix have been terrorizing a neighborhood on Brawner Parkway killing two cats, injuring a dog and attacking residents.
Officers are still working to capture the female pit bull mix.
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Residents who live along Brawner Parkway at Staples Street said the past week has been a nightmare as two dogs -- described as being stray pit bull mixes -- have killed two cats, hurt another dog and attacked a number of residents.
"I’m really afraid," resident David Gaitan said. "I’m afraid something is going to happen to my kids or my wife, I also have an 87-year-old mother-in-law who lives with me as well, she doesn’t move as fast but any of us we’re all moving targets for these dogs."
”Friday when we came home from lunch, we found our 17-year-old cat mauled and killed right next to my car, so we called Animal Control," another resident, Ingo Schuermann said.
According to the residents, Animal Care Services told them crews could not catch the dogs in the rain. Residents were so worried they called 3NEWS to help get the City to concentrate it's efforts on getting the dogs off their street.
"Our neighborhood is not safe, it’s been taken over by these two dogs; all the kids in the neighborhood, people walking up and down, nobody’s safe and we’re tired of it," resident James Cowan said.
Animal Control officers came out to the area several times over the past week to try and capture the two street-wise mutts. 3NEWS went to the City to see if more could be done to capture those dogs even in Thursday's downpour.
As we all know, most dogs hate the rain which made the officers' work more difficult, but they gave it their best as residents looked on.
On Thursday, seven officers were out here after being called once again to get the canines. They even brought a trap to see if they could lure the killer dogs into the cage.
"They got another call on a cellphone saying, 'Hey they’re back,' I said, 'Let’s go we’re not leaving until we get those dogs'," Animal Control Director Kathleen Chapa said.
City Councilman Jim Klein told 3NEWS, attacks from stray dogs is becoming a public safety issue as the number of attacks go up dramatically.
As officials admit that the city has a stray dog problem, Brawner Parkway residents will be living in fear until the trap is finally sprung.
3NEWS was told that once the dogs are captured, they will be checked for microchips to see if they have an owner. If no owner is found, the dogs are expected to be officially declared to be dangerous and will not be able to be adopted.