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Woman says man stabbed her service dog

dog and now she’s left with the medical bills and possibly without a dog. it all happened tuesday on the 15- hundred block of george dieter in east el paso. abc-7’s jerry najera is live with her story … rick estela the owner of the dog tells me her service dog was stabbed in the neck and there’s a chance she could be suffering from nerve damage that can prevent the dog from performing her duties. “she’s everything to me she goe absolutely everywhere with me without her i can’t leave my house ” emotional and heartbroken — jeanette katt tells me her dog harley has changed her life. katt she says harley isn’t just a pet she’s her security. katt has been diagnosed with ptsd and agoraphobia an anxiety disorder caused by situations where the suffer feels the environment to be dangerous. in most cases they stay locked in their homes for weeks. “i was severely tortured and abused i had an ex husband that kidnapped me locked me up in a basement for two weeks tortured me and put a gun to my head and pulled the trigger” a therapy dog wa prescribed to katt. she’s had harley for a little over 7 years and on a normal day rushing to get her grandaughter to karate class harley got away from her. “she pulled out from my hand an i heard her bark maybe three four times maybe if that” katt says when she got to the bottom of the stairs “i heard her squeal i turned an saw him stab her in the neck i saw her drop lifeless i thought she was dead” katt tells me a maintenance worker at the apartment complex stabbed harley with a utility knife and left the scene. harley is trained to sense siezures, panic attacks and to keep katt safe. “she is trained t alert me that there is somebody that i do not see that i do not know” here’s a few pictures of harley at the carnival, the zoo, and at carls junior. where she said she never had issues with the dog. katt says harley never made contact with the worker and the worker attacked her dog. now she’s left with taking care of a service dog who at this point can’t walk. “i would like to see something happen if it doesn’t i need help with her medical bills” katt tells me police said they couldn’t press charges because she’s a dog. i also spoke to witnesses who tell me harley never made contact with the worker i did speak to the manager of the maintenance company who told me she’s out of town and she hasn’t spoken to her employee about the incident until then she will hold-off on making a comment a go fund me acount has been set up for harley we’ll have the link to that following this story on kvia.com. guilty — and not guilty. those were the verdicts handed down today in the

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