Funding for (dog) Conner and Owner

Conner is a very sweet Staffordshire bull terrier who decided to get out of his back yard and go for a stroll on August 15, 2015. We feel that a 150-foot tall tree going down from the bite victim's yard, damaging Conner's confinement fence, contributed to Conner getting loose and running at large.

While Conner was on his stroll down the sidewalk, he encountered a male boxer, inside a dilapidated chain link fence where the gate has a leaning spread gap big enough for a Boxer or 60-to 80 pond dogs to slip in and out at free will. To make this short, Conner and the Boxer broke out into a fight inside the neighbor’s yard, the boxer’s owner possibly contributed to escalating the frenzied Dog-on-dog aggressive, territorial fight, by flailing hands and arms, screaming and yelling possibly causing the dog fight to intensify. Voluntarily the boxer’s owner took the risk of injury by either of the dogs, by intervening in a territorial dogfight between her Boxer and Conner, which resulted in a bite to her hand, a bite that just might have come from her own, unleashed dog.

The Boxer’s owner had the local Animal Shelter, come pick Conner up, claiming she was attacked by this very vicious bit bull. McKamey Animal Shelter picked Conner up and Conner went to doggy jail, the Boxer’s owner immediately hired a Lawyer to represent her, one of the free lawyers that work for a percentage of the winnings, you know the kind from T.V. advertising.

Now before you give me a lecture about Conner running at large, I do know there is a Running at large/Leash Laws in the cities of Hamilton County and Unincorporated Hamilton county, which require all dogs to be under control of their guardian's at all times. Our issue is that it’s possible that neither dog to be under control of their guardian, and most people know you don’t put your hand down into a dog fight, but Conner’s owner can’t afford representation to prove his side. Not only being able to afford representation, he is Latino with a language barrier.

Conner who was surrendered by his owner, was found to be a lovable dog, non-aggressive dog, never has been, there are no prior complaints or notices to indicate this dog to be aggressive, but the sad thing added to all this, McKamey Animal shelter has found that Conner is Heart Worm Positive.

In Chattanooga City Court (8/27/2015), the only charge was running at large.

Should Conner the Staff not survive, and he is put down because of his medical issues, all money that isn't used in legal fees and funding fees, will be donated to McKamey Animal shelter, as they have been great, doing their best to help Conner's owner, and can use the funds to help some other animal.