Woman with dozens of caged animals was attacked by her own dog
COLORADO CITY, Colo. (KRDO) - The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) said they are attributing a 76-year-old woman's death to a dog attack.
According to the PCSO, the woman was found in her home Monday night, Feb. 3.
When deputies arrived at the residence in the 4800 block of Jefferson Blvd. on Monday night, they found the woman unresponsive and several dogs loose in the home. At least a dozen more dogs were in cages inside the home, the PCSO said.
The sheriff's office said they worked with Animal Law Enforcement to seize dogs from the home and another related property. Animal Law Enforcement would not tell KRDO13 if they had been to the home before or share the status of the dogs seized.
No further information is available at this time as the investigation into the death is active and ongoing, the PCSO said.
"When I heard about what happened, I was just totally surprised. I mean, I just couldn't believe that it was a dog attack," Hope Wood told KRDO13 she would often stop by the house where the death occurred when walking her dog. Wood said she would see the elderly mother and her adult daughter working in the yard and would stop to say hello.
Other neighbors said they thought the mother-daughter duo bred dogs, but Wood and her husband said most of the time they only saw two or three dogs around the home.
