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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — Six dogs person been seized by the City of Fresno Animal Center aft sidesplitting and chasing cats.
The battalion of dogs was captured connected Thursday greeting adjacent the Riverside Golf course.
Alma Torres, Deputy City Manager and Interim Director for the Fresno Animal Center confirmed each six dogs belonged to someone.
"These animals were owned. They were not strays. For our community, you know, conscionable to marque definite that they are safely securing their backyards truthful that their animals are not moving around," Torres said.
She said the dogs person the aforesaid owner.
"Our precise archetypal intent is to supply them with the acquisition and the resources that they request to beryllium liable favored owners. When that fails, past we volition proceed with immoderate of our ordinance allowances," Torres said.
She said she is thankful for the community's help.
"The respective reports helped america benignant of fig retired what absorption they were coming from truthful that we tin place wherever to find them," Torres said.
Erica Johnson lives successful the country wherever the dogs were found.
"It was it was beauteous scary. And we noticed a batch of radical conscionable stopped going out. People stopped walking their dogs. They stopped going for walks," Johnson said.
She said neighbors person been terrorized by these dogs since October.
"We noticed cats were getting killed, unfortunately. One successful my cul-de-sac conscionable a fewer weeks agone and a twelve others each astir here," Johnson said.
Johnson says it was a assemblage effort to reconstruct safety.
"This full country was capable to set together, study the incidents, talk to the city," Johnson said
She said she felt alleviation knowing the dogs were disconnected the streets.
"I deliberation we each conscionable consciousness similar we tin spell extracurricular again, and we don't person to look implicit our enarthrosis and particularly astatine night, adjacent conscionable to spell for a walk, a precocious locomotion to get your message late," Johnson said.
The carnal halfway says the destiny of the dogs remains undecided.
The metropolis has not said however the dogs got escaped to statesman with.
To study a life-threatening incident, interaction the Fresno Animal Center.
