MACON, Ga. — In West Macon, a boy was attacked by a dog on the way to his bus stop Monday morning.
Courtney Jordan is the mother of the 15-year-old boy. She says she and her partner Taysha Brown have seen these dogs for around four years, but now there are more dogs.
Jordan says this morning her son was on his way to his bus stop when a rottweiler attacked him and knocked him to the ground. A bystander pulled the dog off the boy, she says.
"He's not gonna pet no dogs he doesn't know," Jordan said. "And he knows the epidemic of how these dogs are out here, so he would've have stayed way away from them. This is not the first time a dog has tried to get at him, but before he was able to run."
Jordan and Brown say this problem is recurring. She says the kids can't even go outside because of fear of getting hurt.
"Horrible. I feel unsafe. I called 911," Jordan says. "I was calling animal control so much that no one was answering so I actually called 911 and the dispatch told me your child has to get bit first in order for us to do something. My child got bit, they still said there is nothing they can do."
Jordan and Brown say they wish animal control could take these packs of dogs away so that they could feel safe.
Sonja Adams is Bibb County's animal enforcement manager. She says she wants these dogs off the street.
The problem, she says, is that they have only four spots left for dogs in the shelter. She says dog packs like these have been a problem for the ten years she worked at the shelter.
"We're about to go out there and investigate that because there are a pack of dogs out there that have increasingly become aggressive towards humans so that takes priority over packs of dogs that are running loose and killing animals," Adams says.
Adams says they don't have the room to put more dogs in the shelter or the staff to respond to every complaint.
Monday afternoon, Adams said she was able to find the dog. She says she found puppies with the rottweiler and took both the puppies and the rottweiler to the shelter.