Updated: Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2:56 p.m.
According to the Tolland Public Safety Department, the bite victim has been identified as Victoria Brocuglio. The department also confirmed that the dog is up to date on its rabies vaccinations.
Original Story:
Tolland first responders transferred a 20-year-old woman to Rockville Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, after a pit bull at bit her on the face and arms, according to Public Safety Director and Fire Chief John Littell.
Littell said that the pit bull inflicted several "serious" bite wounds on the victim, who was later transferred from Rockville to Hartford Hospital.
He added that the dog was not on the scene when first responders and state police arrived at the campground on Tuesday afternoon, but that the dog was found and quarantined later in the day with the assistance of an animal control officer.
Littell said that the dog will remain quarantined while officials determine if the animal is up to date on its rabies vaccines. He said that the dog involved in the attack is from Manchester and was staying at a different site on the campground from the victim.
The dog's owners were not on the scene during the attack, Littell said. Another adult pit bull and two young pit bulls were also present, he added.
The case is still under investigation.
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Nasty smile -- Actually, I suspect you never owned any dog in all your life, that you're a 13-y.o. boy telling silly stories here. Nicole, I guess you're pointing out that people who own pit bulls are generally low-lifes? I have to say I agree with you here. There is at this point a substantial scientific literature that shows this is true (though of course this lit doesn't say 'low life', but rather NPD, subject to psychoticism, criminal record, anti-social behavior, and such clinical terms). At the same time, I do hope you aren't implying that since this is a campground for low-lifes, we should treat the woman who was mauled as a throw-away?
Mandatory juvenile spay / neuter (and instant euthanasia for any pit-type caught with sex organs). Muzzle, short-leash (and instant death for any pit-type caught not so controlled). Shoot / confiscate-and-euthanize any pit-type found roaming for so much as two seconds, and so on. If these nutcases, whose pit bulls always SOMEHOW escape to maul and kill are confronted with such measures, maybe -- IF they love their pits, which is the question -- they will stop the SOMEHOW crap (you know, SOMEHOW it got out, SOMEHOW it was triggered). If they don't, if they keep letting SOMEHOW happen, it means they don't really care a s**t about the p*t. So shoot the thing, the owner doesn't *really* care (or SOMEHOW would never have happened). The 'responsible' pit-nuts have had four decades now to show they can solve the problem. FAIL. Now they are trying to educate us that all dogs kill (hahaha, see 13-y-o Walter below who it seems lay awake in bed for years worried that his Spaniels might suddenly kill him, but now he's switched to PBs he feels utterly safe). FAIL. Follow the money. But also...FOLLOW THE VOTES. I do believe legislators are starting to get it that if they continue to follow only the money (or their PB-owning daugher's interests), they likely will end up on unemployment pay. Blaine R. Young, be warned!
You make create statistics for anything. Can you please tell me how many people who own pit bulls have crashed their cars on a Tuesday following a Monday where there was a full moon. Because I read what you wrote I change my mind, we should do away with the breed altogether.......