Wild Pack Of Dogs In Dallas Eat Woman ‘Like Steak’

Antoinette Brown, a 52-year-old woman, is fighting for her life tonight in Dallas, Texas, after being rescued from a pack of stray dogs that attacked and began to devour her. The incident occurred sometime around 4:30 a.m. Monday, when people close to the attack heard her desperate cries for help. Police found her around 4:45 a.m. in the 3300 block of Rutledge Street in South Dallas, and she was barely clinging to life. The dogs had mauled her to the point where tendon and bone were visible. Her mother, Barbara Brown, said that doctors told the family they “stopped counting bites” after they reached one hundred separate dog bites on the victim. Brown said her daughter’s life hangs by a thread at the moment, according to the Dallas Morning News.

“They ate her like they were eating steak.”

South Dallas has been suffering from an economic downturn and areas of urban blight, but Mayor Mike Rawlings has been attempting to revitalize the culture and industry of South Dallas. However, he said, the issue with the wild dogs there is something that has to be addressed first. He drove around Dallas today taking in the dog problem.

“It’s just unacceptable for aggressive dogs to be threatening the lives of anybody in this city. I am not only sad, but very unhappy. We’re not going to be successful in southern Dallas until we deal with this issue.”

The mayor has asked the city manager for help with a plan to control the aggressive dogs. Antoinette Brown has not been the first case of a wild pack of dogs recently attacking a person in Dallas, but by far is the most serious yet. Barbara Brown said her daughter is at Baylor University Medical Center in a medically induced coma. She said the physicians told her it was unknown if she would survive. The elder Brown said it’s very tough on the family, because the victim is unemployed, and her mother has health problems that make it difficult to deal with this tragedy.

“None of us is functioning right now. We are just in limbo.”

She said she is not even allowed to touch her daughter for fear of her daughter getting an infection, and that police have not told her much about the incident. When police found the victim, the dogs had left the area, and it was hours before they found a pack of six dogs who matched the description of the dogs who had bitten Brown. However, it is unknown if they are the exact dogs because there are so many wild dogs who roam the area. Animal control has the six dogs, and their fate is unknown.

Brown wasn’t the first person to be bitten that day; approximately 24 hours before Brown’s attack, a man in Oak Cliff told police he had to climb on a utility box to escape and then jumped into the bed of a truck to try to get away from the pit bull that was charging him. The dog did make contact with his shin, where he had abrasions and swelling, police said.

It’s unknown how the group of wild dogs began, but they are breeding and multiplying in numbers. Barbara Brown, who also lives in Oak Cliff, said it is common to see the animals roaming the streets, and it is getting worse, she said.

“It’s getting to be rampant.”

Many commenters on a story of this dog attack in the local Dallas Morning News website are critical of what the authorities have done to try to abate the issue. Comments say that the wild dog problem has been going on for years and nobody has done anything to control it.

Antoinette Brown previously served in the United States Army.

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