CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Animal Care Services has been patrolling the Del Mar College Heritage Campus with police after the multiple recent dog attacks.
This comes after a boy was attacked by 11 medium-sized dogs on Tuesday night near Howard Street.
ACS Interim Program Manager Miguel Escobar said more than a dozen dogs were found in the DMC Heritage Campus area on Wednesday and some were involved in recent attacks.
"We were able to impound a total of 13 animals that were roaming free of restraint," Escobar said. "We were also able to successfully impound and place three confirmed biting animals from these recent attacks into quarantine."
Escobar said the three violent animals are being monitored for clinical signs of rabies.
He said the owner of the 11 dogs that attacked a boy was issued citations for each dog that could be up to $500. That can also lead to investigations for dangerous and aggressive dogs, potentially leading to more charges.
"We were able to identify all these animals and we were able to identify the owner of all of these animals, and this comes back to the irresponsible pet ownership that we do have a, unfortunately a plethora of within this city," Escobar said.
Escobar explained the issue comes down to proper pet responsibility.
"Majority of animals that are roaming around the City of Corpus Christi, although they are seen as strays, a majority of them are owned, and it's the owners that just constantly allow their animals to run free of restraint while they're at work or at home," he said.
The quarantine period for aggressive dogs involved in recent attacks is 240 hours. Escobar said all animals are evaluated equally at ACS and some could be euthanized depending on circumstances.
He said ACS is out day and night trying to respond to calls of loose animals in the community.
"If these animals are more socialized, if these animals are cared for, if these owners, you know, take the common courtesy to restrain their animals, which is ordained by law, we don't really find ourselves within these situations," Escobar said.
He said if someone wants to give ACS information about animals they see in the community, they can contact the City of Corpus Christi's 311 call center, use the city's app, contact ACS directly 361-826-4630 or call CCPD's non-emergency number 361-886-2600.
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