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by KATU Staff
Wed, April 19th 2023, 11:44 PM UTC
PORTLAND, Ore. — A pastry chef is recovering after being attacked by a dog on Monday.
Cheryl Wakerhauser owns Pix Patisserie. She says she was out on a run along Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard when she was attacked and mauled by a dog.
She reports the dog was off leash in a parking lot of a vacant building that’s surrounded by a chain-link fence.
The dog grabbed her leg and threw her to the ground, and attacked her legs and arm.
Wakerhauser says she has more than 35 puncture wounds.
“The arm, the leg, the other leg, I was just trying to put my foot in front of him and wave at cars that were driving by,” she said. “And I start looking around, and I started saying, like, I’m on the ground. I started screaming for help like I was having a nightmare, like, ‘Help me, somebody help me,’ and in a nightmare you’re screaming but nobody can hear you. I felt like that.”
Wakerhauser finally caught the eye of one driver who turned around and honked her horn to try to scare the dog off.
At the same time, she says a man with a leash walked up, said it wasn’t his dog, and then led the dog away.
Another witness followed the man and dog and led police to them.
Wakerhauser says the dog was taken away by animal control. The dog is a pitbull named "Bubbie," as confirmed by police.
Wakerhouser states public safety in Portland needs to be a top priority and that she’s tired of getting lip service from city government instead of real change.
She also says the city has a job to do to fix problems instead of putting a band-aid on it.
On Thursday Portland Police told KATU that the dog's handler/suspect had been arrested and booked into the MCDC the day of the attack.
Police say the suspect, identified as houseless individual Theron D. Bates, had handed the dog over to police and then tried to run away.
However, Bates then ingested fentanyl shortly afterward and overdosed.
Police say they administered naloxone and took him to be treated before booking him into jail on a warrant. The PPB says it is currently investigating potential criminal or civil culpability.
Police confirmed that Bates is not the owner of the dog, but a friend of owner Jessie Miller, who reports himself as homeless. Bates was "babysitting" the dog for Miller.
KATU confirmed that the dog "Bubbie" was taken in by Multnomah County Animal Services for a mandatory 10-day quarantine and bite investigation.
However, police say that owner Jessie Miller and his mother Marie Miller appeared and convinced Animal Services to let the dog quarantine at Marie's home.
On Tuesday, April 17 the dog was transferred to Marie Miller. Jessie Miller then returned to her home and took the dog.
The whereabouts of Miller and the dog are currently unknown. Police are currently trying to locate him, but he does not have a fixed address.
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PPB: Portland pastry chef mauled by off-leash dog, dog's handler promptly ODs on fentanyl
by KATU Staff
Wed, April 19th 2023, 11:44 PM UTC
PORTLAND, Ore. — A pastry chef is recovering after being attacked by a dog on Monday.
Cheryl Wakerhauser owns Pix Patisserie. She says she was out on a run along Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard when she was attacked and mauled by a dog.
She reports the dog was off leash in a parking lot of a vacant building that’s surrounded by a chain-link fence.
The dog grabbed her leg and threw her to the ground, and attacked her legs and arm.
Wakerhauser says she has more than 35 puncture wounds.
“The arm, the leg, the other leg, I was just trying to put my foot in front of him and wave at cars that were driving by,” she said. “And I start looking around, and I started saying, like, I’m on the ground. I started screaming for help like I was having a nightmare, like, ‘Help me, somebody help me,’ and in a nightmare you’re screaming but nobody can hear you. I felt like that.”
Wakerhauser finally caught the eye of one driver who turned around and honked her horn to try to scare the dog off.
At the same time, she says a man with a leash walked up, said it wasn’t his dog, and then led the dog away.
Another witness followed the man and dog and led police to them.
Wakerhauser says the dog was taken away by animal control. The dog is a pitbull named "Bubbie," as confirmed by police.
Wakerhouser states public safety in Portland needs to be a top priority and that she’s tired of getting lip service from city government instead of real change.
She also says the city has a job to do to fix problems instead of putting a band-aid on it.
On Thursday Portland Police told KATU that the dog's handler/suspect had been arrested and booked into the MCDC the day of the attack.
Police say the suspect, identified as houseless individual Theron D. Bates, had handed the dog over to police and then tried to run away.
However, Bates then ingested fentanyl shortly afterward and overdosed.
Police say they administered naloxone and took him to be treated before booking him into jail on a warrant. The PPB says it is currently investigating potential criminal or civil culpability.
Police confirmed that Bates is not the owner of the dog, but a friend of owner Jessie Miller, who reports himself as homeless. Bates was "babysitting" the dog for Miller.
KATU confirmed that the dog "Bubbie" was taken in by Multnomah County Animal Services for a mandatory 10-day quarantine and bite investigation.
However, police say that owner Jessie Miller and his mother Marie Miller appeared and convinced Animal Services to let the dog quarantine at Marie's home.
On Tuesday, April 17 the dog was transferred to Marie Miller. Jessie Miller then returned to her home and took the dog.
The whereabouts of Miller and the dog are currently unknown. Police are currently trying to locate him, but he does not have a fixed address.
