Jacumba

Two pit bulldogs dragged a 10-year-old girl off her bicycle Sunday morning, but she escaped with one leg bite after a neighbor rescued her and a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed one of the dogs.

According to a witness, Monica Taylor was riding her bike at about 8 a.m. on Brawley Avenue when two pit bulls emerged from nearby bushes.

“I was doing the dishes, and I had seen the dogs running loose since 6 o’clock in the morning,” neighbor Anna Woods said. “We had been uneasy that they would do something.”

Woods’ husband called the sheriff, and while he was on the phone Anna Woods watched the attack. “Then I said, ‘Oh my god, the pit bulls have downed the little girl on the bicycle,”’ Anna Woods said. “One of them had her by the leg and the bicycle had fallen on top of her in the middle of the street.”

Anna Woods then ran out and took the girl into her house. “I just ran out there and the dogs kind of backed up for a minute, and I grabbed her and ran,” she said.

A sheriff’s deputy responding to the incident shot and killed the male pit bull, which charged him.

The female pit bull was captured by county Animal Control and is being quarantined for a rabies check.

Officials are not sure which dog bit the girl.

The child was treated for a dog bite that penetrated to the bone and required nine stitches.

The owner was cited for having dogs that were unrestrained, unlicensed and unvaccinated.