Dog Owners Fighting Borough Over Fate of Locked Up Pups
Two dogs, now impounded going on four weeks after an alleged attack earlier this month, have been in the middle of an increasingly public effort by their owners to free them.
Following an alleged attack by their two dogs earlier this month, Hope Alexander and her mother, Mary Watts, have been fighting for the pets' release from the Fair Lawn pound, where the borough is holding them as potentially dangerous pending a municipal court date. The dogs broke free from Alexander’s home on Jan. 3, after she says a family friend left the gate open. Cosgrove, a 180-pound Mastiff/Great Dane mix, and Wilson, a 80-pound boxer, allegedly attacked a smaller dog and its owner three blocks away at the intersection of Hedman Place and Stelton Terrace. According to a police report, officers responded to find the two dogs circling the victim of the alleged attack. Both he and his dog were bleeding, the report says, though he could…
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Hope Alexander
9:11 pm on Sunday, February 17, 2013
Wilson was the victim in the 2011 incident in my home, the pitt i had attacked and almost killed Wilson. I later found out that the breeder i got him from put my pitts mother down very recently after giving borth bc she attacked and bit several ppl. GENETICS??? i tried to find a home or shelter that would take my pitt but no one would so i did the responsible thing and took him to my vets office … more ›