Dog pack attacks

With their owner in court answering complaints of missing registrations and rabies vaccinations for his dogs, nine among a pack of over a dozen attacked at least two people in a Magalia neighborhood, requiring officers from both the Butte County Sheriff’s Office and Butte County Animal Control to respond.

Last Thursday morning (March 14), according to a BCSO press release, deputies responded to a call of as many as three victims in the 6400 block of Rosewood Drive. They isolated one neighbor, who’d been seriously injured, so she could be transported by ambulance for hospitalization. A second victim was transported independently and underwent surgery for several major injuries caused by the dogs.

The owner, Peter Ricca, and Animal Control officers arrived from court to secure the nine dogs, which the county seized. Ricca, 64, got to keep the four other dogs quarantined at his home.