Neighbours of the family that owned the two dogs say they've been living in fear of the loud, vicious animals.
"When they were out in the yard, they were always bounding back and fourth trying to get at anyone who walked by," said city of Vancouver employee Rod Kerr, 42, who lives across the street from the 500- block E. 19th Avenue home where the dogs were kept.
"I said that if they ever get out, they are going to kill someone," said Rita Storey, 37, who also lives across from where the dogs were kept behind a chainlink fence and where one big dog still lives.
No one from the Chow family, which owns the dogs, were willing to talk to reporters yesterday, but neighbours say the dogs snapped at a family member last year.
Storey said she heard the screams.
"It was awful, my daughters saw the dogs biting at a child," she said.
Province, January 3, 2003