Help Mitsy and Bonnie fully recover from attack!

Update 4/14/24: Bonnie will be receiving the amount of her vet bills for Miss Mitzi May from restitution payments. Mitzi is physically recovering amazingly! Emotionally and mentally she is very hesitant to walk outside especially if she sees another dog. Bonnie will not give up though, she continues to encourage her to work through this trauma.

The owner of the dog who attacked her has taken steps to ensure the dog doesn’t get out again, and was court ordered to register the dog as a dangerous dog. The owner must follow all steps and stipulations set fourth by the state.

We are all happy that both dogs lives have been saved and/or spared and hope our small little neighborhood group can move forward from this. We will be more vigilant to ensure this doesn’t happen again by this dog or any other dog. We will be encouraging neighbors to properly secure their dogs while outside, and follow the leash laws of our city.

Bonnie wants to thank each and everyone who has shared and donated. Your kindness and support means the absolute world to her and her bestie Mitzi!

Since there has been a ruling for the full amount of vet bills to be reimbursed over time we will be disabling the “donate” option on the GFM! Thank you again and may god or your higher power bless you all!

Eyewitness Update

My name is Ryan! My neighbor and friend Bonnie who is 81, and her best friend a 10 yr old Shihtzu named Mitsy (I call her Miss Mitsy May) faced the nightmare of their lives 2/14/24 around 11 am!

The two go for daily walks and on Valentine’s Day the day “for love” was no different! The sun was shining, and little did Bonnie realize what was lurking only a few houses away. A very large alleged Pit Bull had got loose (getting off a “tie out” & allegedly jumping a fence as well) and was just feet away on the side of another neighbor’s houses unleashed and unknown to Bonnie. The second it saw Mitsy it attacked and it went into full blown biting and shaking sweet Mitsy.

With the quick thinking of other neighbors they picked up the closest thing which was a garbage can lid and threw it but missed. So one of them quickly picked it up and even chased the dog with the lid thankfully it leg go of Mitsy after biting and violently shaking her.

The owner has shown no remorse or even taken responsibility for what was done due to his lack of respect and responsibility to his neighbors and even to his own pet!

Bonnie had to put almost $2,000 in vet bills on a credit card she thankfully had available! While there may be a judgment at some point this isn’t a timely or even guaranteed reimbursement for these expenses!

Bonnie had lacerations to her hands from the leash but refused medical treatment only worrying about her best friend! Mitsy is physically recovering but does have a long way to go and most likely more vet visits.

We are extremely thankful that as horrible as this was it wasn’t worse and that Bonnie wasn’t injured worse or had a medical reaction due to the stress of the attack.

We just would like to give Bonnie a little help with these credit card payments that will be coming before she knows it, the gas to make countless trips to the Vet, along with the pain and suffering!

Helping to get Bonnie at least some financial relief is the least we can do for her as her fellow neighbors and friends!

Thankfully Bonnie got attention from Eyewitness news. Here are the stories:

** Trigger warning the video is extremely upsetting and graphic!**

Eyewitness Story