A Hollister woman reported that three dogs, including two pit
bulls, were
”
terrorizing
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her neighborhood on Los Viboras Road.
A Hollister woman reported that three dogs, including two pit bulls, were “terrorizing” her neighborhood on Los Viboras Road.
The woman, Donna Baker, said the three dogs killed her cat Nov. 10 and “jumped” at her Saturday when she was in her backyard. And the dogs continue to roam the neighborhood, she contended to the Free Lance.
Baker described the three dogs as a white-and-black pit bull, a black pit bull and a “medium-sized hairy dog.”
“I’m scared to go to my car,” she said. “I don’t know what to do.”
Baker said she called the police department and animal shelter over the weekend, but was never called back. Sgt. David Westrick and Capt. Carlos Reynoso did not return phone calls before press time.
An animal shelter volunteer said the agency received the report but couldn’t send an officer until Tuesday because the shelter was closed over the weekend. The shelter’s hours are Monday through Friday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
“We will be following up,” she said.
In the meantime, Baker has brought her other two cats inside and is keeping a watchful eye on the dogs in the neighborhood.
“It’s total chaos,” she said. “Something needs to be done.”
The incidents started Wednesday when she watched her cat being mauled by the three dogs, she claimed. On Saturday, when Baker was in her backyard, one of the dogs started jumping at her, she said.
To escape, Baker threw a rock at the dogs, she said.
“I didn’t know what to do,” she said. “Those dogs were not afraid of me.”
Baker, who moved to the area six weeks ago after living in Watsonville, doesn’t feel safe and is worried about being forced to move, she said.
“I can’t afford to move again so I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place,” she said.
She added that she was afraid to go outside.
“I feel like a prisoner in my own home,” Baker said. “They were not afraid of me – they meant business. They have already tasted blood. I saw it with my own eyes.”
