KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Police say a total of three people were attacked by the same dogs in a matter of days. One of the dogs has been found and officers are looking for the other two. Two of the men who were attacked say those dogs need to be found quickly before this happens to someone else.
The normally active Robert Phillips is barely able to make it down the stairs.
“I can’t walk on my leg, I can barely walk anymore,” Phillips said.
Phillips was heading out to his car early Monday morning to get his work gloves to go to his job as a trash collector. He’d heard dogs barking, but figured it was from was the neighbor’s. Then he realized he was under attack.
“I looked out of the corner of my eye and wham! Just jumped up and starting biting at me,” Phillips said.
Robert said two dogs were biting him in his driveway near 12th and Richmond.
“He was just eating my arms I couldn’t – I was trying to get this great big one off me at the same time,” Phillips explained.
Luckily his girlfriend heard some commotion, ran outside, grabbed a metal rod and starting fighting the dogs off.
“I’m lucky I’m alive,” he said.
He’s alive, but he’s out of work for a long time while he recovers.
Riley Carter was attacked just hours before Phillips by the same two dogs two blocks away on Richmond.
Riley figured kids were messing with his house, but then he saw the dogs.
“I’ve been through a whole lot of things in my life. and I never thought my death would come closest with dogs, so a dog attack almost nearly taking my life, you know?” Carter said.
He even bit one of the dogs back.
“I knew I was going to die because I was giving up as I had the other dog in my mouth,” he said.
Carter somehow survived, but he’s had surgery on his eye, was badly bitten in the groin, and will need surgery on his arm and nose.
“Any more and they would have killed me. I had just enough,” Carter said.
Both men say they fear the next attack victim may not be as lucky as they were.
“I’m glad it wasn’t them kids because if it would have been one of the kids, they would have died,” Phillips said.
Neighbors in the area on Richmond between 12th and 14th streets say they’ve seen the dogs around. They’re described by police as a brindle-colored male boxer with cropped ears and a fawn-colored female boxer.
It’s unknown if the dogs have rabies, but they should be considered very dangerous.
Call KCK Animal Control at 913-321-1445 if you have any information.