Pair of dogs face euthanasia

Police said two dogs that allegedly attacked and killed a third, small dog were likely to be euthanized this week. Their owner turned them over to a shelter.

The two dogs – Jack, a black Lab mix and Stella, a black Portuguese water dog – allegedly killed a white Maltese dog named Mercedes as she was being walked by a woman in the area of 30th Street and Ingleside Drive about 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, police said.

The bigger dogs turned on a woman who tried to fight them off, and she suffered an aggravation of an existing back injury as she escaped them, police said.

The owner was cited for allegedly having a vicious dog at large. Police said he had been cited previously for having a dog at large, after the same two dogs injured another dog and bit a person at Hermosa Valley Park on June 8, 2009.

The owner turned the dogs over to animal control authorities in Carson as animals that cannot be controlled, police said. ER

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