A Cherokee County toddler was home from a
hospital Thursday with a few stitches after
a neighbor's dog attacked him.
Chris Sellers was talking with his neighbor
when his son Blakely, 2, somehow got through
their neighbor's gate.
"He opened the latch, which is hard to
open," said Chris Sellers. "I feel awful
about the whole thing."
It
took only seconds for Socks -- a mixed breed
-- to bite Blakely Sellers in the face.
"I took my shirt off and wrapped it around
his head and put pressure on it," Sellers
said.
The attack surprised the dog's owner, Carol
Pennington, as much as it did her neighbors.
"I've had (Socks) about five years, and he's
never done anything like this before.
Never," Pennington said.
Because of the attack, Pennington turned
over Socks to animal control. A veterinarian
will put the dog to sleep on Friday.
"It's pretty hard to see (Blakely Sellers)
hurt and to give up my dog. But (Sellers) is
going to be all right, I believe,"
Pennington said.
Thursday's dog attack is just one of several
in the Upstate recently.
On
Wednesday, a lab-chow mix attacked a
Cherokee County animal control officer as he
was taking it inside the humane society.
That officer got a steel rod put in his neck
where he was bitten.
