A Chillicothe woman walking to work was hospitalized after a pit bull-type dog charged off a porch and bit her on the right forearm on South Hickory Street, according to Chillicothe Police Department reports detailed by the Scioto Post on November 1.
The attack happened on Monday, October 27, the Scioto Post reported, citing the police reports. Officers were dispatched at about 1:57 p.m. to a residence on Old Eastern Avenue following a report of a dog bite, and found the woman holding a towel to her right forearm, covering multiple bleeding puncture wounds, according to the supplemental narrative filed by Officer Carson Sammons as reported by the Scioto Post.
The woman told officers she was walking to work with headphones in her ears and was passing 127 South Hickory Street when a small dog ran toward her barking, the Scioto Post reported from the police account. A large pit bull-type dog then charged off the porch and bit her on the right forearm, according to that account; she said she had not antagonized the dogs in any way.
She asked a woman on the porch to call 911, then walked back to her home on Old Eastern Avenue to call emergency services herself and try to stop the bleeding, the Scioto Post reported. First responders advised her to elevate her arm and apply continuous pressure until an ambulance arrived, and she was taken to a hospital for treatment, according to the report as published by the Scioto Post.
Officers also went to the South Hickory Street residence, where they spoke with Chelsea Musselman, who identified herself as a part-owner and the dog-sitter for the animal involved, described as a black and white XL Bully/pit bull mix, the Scioto Post reported. Musselman told officers she was watching the dogs while the owner, Doug Butler, was out of town, according to that report.
Officers briefed responding paramedics and the Ross County dog warden, who took over the animal-control investigation, the Scioto Post reported. The dog faces potential quarantine, and Musselman was advised that citations are a possibility as the investigation continues, according to the Scioto Post’s account of the police reports.
What happens next: the county dog warden’s investigation will determine quarantine and any citations. No further update on the woman’s condition had been published as of Sunday evening.