Elderly FL man loses arm & badly mauled by neighbor's 2 dogs

[RamboLiberal]

A 74-year-old man was severely mauled by two dogs belonging to his neighbor near Hawthorne on Friday morning.

Roy McSweeney, of 259 Old Hawthorne Road in Putnam County, was rushed to Shands at the University of Florida for extensive surgery including an attempt to save one of his arms. The other arm had been completely ripped off by the dogs, said Putnam County Sheriff's Capt. Johnny Greenwood.

"He was in his yard doing yard work when the dogs jumped over the fence and attacked him," Greenwood said, adding that the fence was thin wire. "An investigator said the surgery would take six to eight hours."

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Authorities have twice dealt with Blitch over dog bites, Greenwood added.

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20110610/ARTICLES/110619976/-1/news?Title=Hawthorne-man-badly-mauled-by-neighbor-s-dogs


HAWTHORNE — As Angela Taylor talked Saturday about the dogs that roam freely through her rural neighborhood, a small dog, running loose, yapped at a neatly dressed salesman heading up the dirt road toward her house. That set off more barking from nearby houses in several directions.

It happens all the time, she said.

Taylor said she has called authorities numerous times after seeing aggressive dogs on the loose, roaming through her close-knit neighborhood of dirt roads, trailers and small homes.

They left her terrified for herself, for her daughter and for her neighbors. Her fears were realized in the worst way Friday after two dogs mauled the man she called “Daddy Roy.”

Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2011-06-11/story/roaming-aggressive-dogs-have-been-issue-putnam-where-man-was-attacked#ixzz1P2WBzI8W

Ahole owners like these fools need criminal charges filed. I'm sick of reading the horror of these attacks on innocent kids & adults. If this man lives he's just lost whatever quality of life he has left cause a couple of idiots had to own dangerous dogs & didn't control them.