Editor:

On April 17th at around 7:15 p.m. I called the sheriff’s dispatch and reported that my cat had been grabbed through my fence by the next door neighbor’s pit bull and it dragged her through the fence and continued to maul her until I hit it in the head with a piece of wood to make it let go, it did not listen to the owner yelling at it to stop.

I brought my cat home and she was lying outside dying as I was reporting this. My cat suffered for about 15-20 minutes longer and died. I called the dispatch back to find out when the animal control would be there because I wanted them to see my cat and the spot she was pulled through the fence.

The dispatch told me that they would not be coming up this evening but they would follow up with me the next day. So reluctantly I buried my cat and

fixed the fence so the dog could not get through again.

The next morning the animal control called and told me that the next time something happened I needed to get a picture. That was it, she told me that she would not be coming up to even talk to the owners of the pit bull when I asked.

I was appalled, here my cat was dead and the culprits were getting off without even a warning to keep this vicious dog fenced up.

In anger I stated to her “I don’t know why any of us call the sheriff’s office to report anything because law enforcement never comes up and does anything anyway.” Most of the time they don’t. She then asked why I called them? Like my call was putting her out. I was totally appalled by her response that I just said I didn’t know and hung up the phone.

Throughout the day, this conversation kept running through my mind until finally I just could not leave it like that so I called her superiors. I called the Sheriff but he was not in the office, so I called the sergeant of the day and he had a little empathy for my cat anyway and told me that he would have a talk with her and take care of the situation.

I do not know if she was ever reprimanded but this is a typical response that we get in Paynes Creek.

These civil servants forget that it is our tax payers that pay their wages and they work for the public. Responding to this crime is not doing a favor for me, it is their job. They need to take classes on how to relate to the public; showing no empathy and being downright rude is not the way to treat your employers.

— Brenda Heard-Duncan, Paynes Creek