There’s a killer running loose in this neighborhood. They caught one, but the other one’s still on the lam.

One of my working guys saw it happen too.

We’re working on putting in wells at a few houses, and one of them has a sweet white boxer tied up outside. He’s our buddy, and we all always play with him a little when we’re there.

The guys were working on the electrical system for the pump yesterday when my contractor called me in sort of a panic.

“There’s been an incident,” he said, “but not with the job.” And he told me what had happened.

A couple of pit bulls had run into the back of the yard, and the guys heard barking, but not a whole lot of it. When they went back there though, the boxer was down and covered with blood, and the female pit was standing there wagging her tail with blood all over her mouth. Lyle tried to catch them or at least see where they came from. We know they’re local, since I’ve picked them up at the office and called Animal Control on them before.

I got to the site and walked around back, expecting to see some minor wounds. The tenant wasn’t home, so I was a little worried about our liability should we decide to do anything. Lyle had already called the County, and they were on their way out. I didn’t have a phone number for the tenant lady; I called her landlord, who was out of the country, but he said he’d try the numbers he had.

I thought poor Huero was dead when I found him. He was in shock and breathing his last gasps. Animal Control got there before he expired, but he didn’t survive the ride to the shelter to be seen by the vet.

Lyle talked to the poor lady today, and she was sort of torn up. I’m just glad that her four-year-old daughter wasn’t there to either see it or become a target herself. One of those pits is people-friendly, but the other one isn’t. They caught one of the dogs that had done it, but the other one’s on the loose; we know damn well that his owner caught him and is hiding him. Animal Control says that the DA will prosecute and they won’t get that dog back, but it doesn’t matter; they’ve got fresh puppies to raise up to fight again. This is the land of the fighting cocks and dogs, after all.

Poor ol’ Huero. He was a good dog. I will officially not know anything if the other pit turns up with a bullet in his head.