Dustin Bishop said he came home Wednesday to find his beloved 6-year-old pet, Dolly, dead in his southwest Oklahoma City backyard.“She was a great dog. Very, very sweet,” he said. “I went looking around to see where the dogs got in. That’s when I found a hole in the fence.”Bishop said the hole in the fence at the home near Southwest 59th Street and South Walker Avenue was created by his neighbor’s two pit bulls.“He tried to apologize; didn’t want to listen to that,” he said.Bishop said the pit bulls have a history of roaming free and have been reported at least twice to Animal Control by neighbors before Dolly was attacked. He said Animal Control didn’t respond to any of the reports.“After those incidents, those dogs should have been done and none of this would have been necessary,” Bishop said. Oklahoma City Animal Control officials sent a statement, saying “due to staffing levels, we weren’t able to respond until (Friday).” Dangerous animal charges were not able to be filed because there wasn’t a witness to the deadly attack, Bishop said.“That’s ridiculous to me,” Bishop said. “If that’s the rules, it needs to be changed.”

Dustin Bishop said he came home Wednesday to find his beloved 6-year-old pet, Dolly, dead in his southwest Oklahoma City backyard.

“She was a great dog. Very, very sweet,” he said. “I went looking around to see where the dogs got in. That’s when I found a hole in the fence.”


Bishop said the hole in the fence at the home near Southwest 59th Street and South Walker Avenue was created by his neighbor’s two pit bulls.

“He tried to apologize; didn’t want to listen to that,” he said.

Bishop said the pit bulls have a history of roaming free and have been reported at least twice to Animal Control by neighbors before Dolly was attacked. He said Animal Control didn’t respond to any of the reports.

“After those incidents, those dogs should have been done and none of this would have been necessary,” Bishop said.

Oklahoma City Animal Control officials sent a statement, saying “due to staffing levels, we weren’t able to respond until (Friday).”

Dangerous animal charges were not able to be filed because there wasn’t a witness to the deadly attack, Bishop said.

“That’s ridiculous to me,” Bishop said. “If that’s the rules, it needs to be changed.”