Love at first bite
On Saturday afternoon, a dog attacked its owner at Rite Aid. Mammoth Lakes Wildlife Specialist Steve Searles is not typically called in to deal with domestic animals, but responded to the scene with his capture pole and kennel box. He said that Sgt. Marc Moscowitz of MLPD was the primary responder to the call. Mammoth Lakes Police Department (MLPD) did not file a police report. According to Searles, the male victim was bleeding and bitten on the leg when MLPD and The Mammoth Lakes Fire Department (MLFD) arrived.
Fire Chief Frank Frievalt told The Sheet that he was not on the call, but that a fire department crew was dispatched to respond to a dog bite. When the Fire Department arrived on scene, the victim was in the men’s bathroom. There was a person outside the bathroom holding a leash. The dog was on the other end of the leash, inside the bathroom, with its leash caught in the door, keeping the it from continuing to bite the victim. Frievalt said it was very difficult to get to the victim, as the MLPD and MLFD had to simultaneously contain the dog and open the door to get to the owner before the dog attacked anyone else. The authorities wrangled the dog into the women’s bathroom so they could treat the patient, then lured it into a travel kennel for transport to Whitmore Animal Shelter.
