Residents in a Brampton neighbourhood where a horrific dog attack traumatized a family are trying to stop the two dogs responsible from returning to their community.

Dozens of signatures have been collected on a petition asking the City of Brampton to keep the two Presa Canario dogs out of the community. They want the city to refuse to return the dogs to their owners.

The dogs’ owners have been charged by the city in the Sept. 19 attack on Leacrest Street that left little K-Ci, a 10-year-old Pomeranian/Jack Russell cross, too severely injured to be saved. She had to be euthanized for humanitarian reasons, according to her owners.

Residents in the neighbourhood are afraid their voices won’t be heard as the case goes to court Nov. 23.

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The owners are charged with two counts each of “being the owner of a dog that has bitten a dog,” according to the city.

“We don’t want those dogs back,” said one woman who did not want to be identified. “We have a lot of young kids on the street.”

The neighbourhood was chosen as the very first to win the Good Neighbourhood Award some years back, and residents say their mandate is to be “clean, green and safe.”

The dogs are making the neighbourhood unsafe, they say.

Residents say the attack, which happened in front of two young children and their grandparents on the family’s front lawn, isn’t the first time the dogs have escaped and roamed the neighbourhood.

The city would not confirm if they had been called to the area on any other complaints involving the same dogs.