(01/17/19) - Two dogs are in quarantine at the Saginaw County Animal Control Center after attacking a puppy and biting at least two people in the process.

The attack happened before dawn Thursday morning as a couple was walking their puppy on Adams Boulevard in Saginaw.

SCACC Interim Director Michelle Sawyer said they are still waiting to learn how the puppy and its owners are doing after that attack.

But we were able to connect with one of the neighbors who came to help.

Melissa Hayes said it started as she was getting ready for work. "I heard a bunch of barking that, it just wasn't normal dog barking," Hayes said.

Hayes looked outside and could see people wearing reflective vests, but didn't know what was going on.

"I didn't even see any of the dogs, I just heard it and started running," Hayes explained.

Before she got bit trying to get the dogs off the puppy, she got her first injury. "I ran out on the sidewalk, I slipped and fell flat on my back and cracked my head."

Hayes used a stick to try and get the dogs off the puppy.

"I was scared for the dog because I love animals and they were flipping it around like a ragdoll, like they had it by it's face and then they had it by it's tail," Hayes said.

More neighbors would come to help before the dogs ran off.

At least one of the puppy's owners was hurt and so was Hayes.

She ended up at the emergency room to get her head checked, a rabies shot, and have her bite looked at.

"It's not that common that it happens to this level of severity," Sawyer said when we asked if this type of attack happened often.

Sawyer said there is a report of a second incident nearby and when a third call came in about a sighting of the two pitbulls animal control officers, who were searching for the dogs, were able to pick them up a few blocks away.

"When you have a loose dog they don't always act in the way that they would if they were in their home or on leash with their owner. Then you get more than one dog that are running together, then you get a pack mentality," Sawyer said.

Hayes hopes the puppy and its owners are okay. "It's not even a decision to me, like I would never not do something if someone needs help."

Both dogs will remain in quarantine for 10 days before any decisions are made about their future.