Responding to 102 Ledge St. on Friday after a pit bull bit a 4-year-old boy on the lip, city officials discovered dog excrement on bedding, furniture and the floor, city health officer Heidi Peek said.
Peek detailed what she claims to have seen Friday when inspecting the residence:
It looked as if the children had been walking through dog waste and tracking it throughout the house for some time.
The stairs to the second floor had a film of dried dog feces. Animal excrement was found in all three rooms upstairs.
In what appeared to be a playroom, fresh piles of dog feces and puddles of urine were on the floor. Again, the smell of dog waste “was overpowering.”
The mother, who wasn’t identified in the news report, denied that the residence was unsanitary and said the dog bite was an accident. The pit bull loves the boy and his two younger brothers, she said.
The dog was probably trying to kiss her boy when its teeth caught his lip, she said. The boy was playing in the dog’s water bowl, police said.
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