A Rottweiler that attacked a 2-year-old woman in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday night time is with Broward County Animal Care “underneath quarantine” because the company conducts an investigation, a spokesperson stated Monday.
Shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday, Fort Lauderdale Hearth Rescue was known as to a house alongside the 1700 block of Southwest twenty fourth Road. The woman had been “mauled” by the canine, Fort Lauderdale Police stated.
She had “quite a few accidents” and was taken to Broward Well being Medical Heart’s trauma middle, the police division stated. Broward County Animal Care took the canine on Sunday and is main the investigation.
A spokesperson for Broward Well being Medical Heart didn’t reply to an e-mail searching for an replace on the woman’s situation as of Monday afternoon.
Zachary Rinkins, an Animal Care spokesperson, stated in an e-mail Monday afternoon that the company is conducting a “harmful canine investigation” and that the company wouldn’t remark additional.
Through the investigation, Animal Care will interview the canine’s proprietor and take a sworn assertion from anybody with details about whether or not the canine is likely to be harmful, in response to a Broward County ordinance.
The ordinance defines a harmful canine as any that has aggressively attacked or injured an individual on public or personal property, has killed or severely injured a home animal whereas off the proprietor’s property greater than as soon as, has been used for canine preventing and has chased or approached somebody on public grounds “in a menacing vogue or obvious perspective of assault” whereas unprovoked.
Necessities for a canine decided to be harmful embody registration and a sure license, a microchip, an indication displayed on the proprietor’s dwelling and a correct enclosure, a certificates of rabies vaccination, amongst others. The proprietor has to comply with quite a few necessities to remain in compliance, the ordinance exhibits.
Animal Care investigators say the woman’s chew accidents had been so extreme that the canine “required confiscation” by the shelter, which means the proprietor should quit whole possession of the canine, doubtless for euthanasia, the spokesperson stated. The proprietor turned over the Rottweiler for that investigation however “didn’t want to give up the canine,” the spokesperson added.
The Pam Rock Act, which handed the Florida Legislature’s 2025 session and took impact July 1, mandates euthanasia for canine that kill people or trigger extreme accidents. Canine homeowners can file an attraction to cease the euthanasia whereas the investigation is ongoing.
Solar Sentinel workers author Phillip Valys contributed to this report.
