A pit bull dog loose in a Lafayette neighborhood found its way into a national and attacked a household pet.
Homeowner Andrea Brodhead told The Advertiser. it happened Thursday evening after she apparently failed to shut the threshold to her house completely.
She was with her 4-year-old granddaughter when she heard a beep from the house alarm, indicating someone had come in.
Then she was confronted by the four-legged invader.
The pit bull grabbed the class dog, a little mixed-breed terrier named Biddy.
"It was three times the sizing of my dog," Brodhead said. "The pit bull practically knocked me over and then grabbed Biddy with her lip and had her about her neck."
Brodhead called police while her 18-year-old son, Beau, a defensive support for the St. Thomas More high school football team, grabbed a throne to push off the dog.
Using lamps, stools and a broom, Brodhead and her son were able to form the pit bull let go of Biddy. They cornered the pit bull in the house's sun room.
"She only went and set on my couch like she was exploited to existence in a house," Brodhead said.
Earlier that evening, Andrea Brodhead's sister and brother-in-law, who live next door, saw a pickup conspicuously pull into the area adjacent to their homes.
They heard a tailgate open and close, and Brodhead suspects someone abandoned the pit bull in that field because it could either no longer fight or breed fighting dogs.
"The woman from animal control said it was a fight dog, and she said it could have be a lot worse," Brodhead said.
One trip to the veterinarian later, Biddy is simply a bit shook up with some scratches. Andrea Brodhead said the vet treated Biddy's open wounds on her wind and the seat of her neck.
Brodhead said Biddy's collar protected the top of her neck from being pierced by the pit bull's teeth.
Virginia Lee, who is the local Animal Control supervisor, said her situation is investigating the incidental and is stressful to cut down the pit bull's owner.
"The individual who truly is at fault is the individual who allowed it to be light or whoever owned the animal," Lee said. "Someone needs to be punished for that."
Lee said Lafayette Parish is one of the state's hotspots for dog fighting. She said though the job has become less severe during the preceding 5 years, people do still fight dogs there.
She said it's also not rare for masses to abandon dogs, in particular old fighting dogs, at secluded "drop spots" around the parish.
"People do that, and it's really terrible," Lee said. "There are so many unwanted pets in this parish, and people don't submit the responsibility.
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Information from: The Advertiser, http://www.theadvertiser.com
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