Vicious attack leads to questions for county

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By Patric Hedlund, TME

Wes Rogers is on a crusade to keep his neighbors safe. His neighbors on Glacier Drive in the Pine Mountain community are on a campaign to keep meals coming for a tiny woman with boundless energy whose leg is now in a brace. They say she has been told by her doctor that she may not be able to walk for a year.

Connie “Conni” Pruyn (pronounced “Prine”) is a professional dog walker with a sunny disposition and a love for animals that sparkles through her voice as she tells why she has just returned from yet another in an endless sequence of medical visits.

“It is so sad that just getting from one chair to the next is such a big deal!” she laughs, when we talked this week. She tells how she is hobbling with a crutch around her house. Pruyn is accustomed to walking many miles every day.

She is a 105-pound ball of fire when it comes to protecting animals. She has worked with pit bull rescue groups for 20 years, she said. But on June 14 Pruyn was reportedly walking when a German shepherd mix and a pit pull attacked her from behind, taking…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Wes Rogers of the Pine Mountain community went to Bakersfield on August 22 to tell the Kern County Board of Supervisors that his rural community is at risk because Kern County Animal Services is neglecting its responsibility to the area. Rogers asked why a German shepherd mix and pit bull are…

Nick Cullen, Director of Kern County Animal Services, says the June 14 report told of “scratches,” not severe injury.

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