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Published: June 12, 2009
McAlester woman wants dogs destroyed after bites
SONYA COLBERG
WILBURTON — Brandy McCarty asked the obvious question when she saw nine dogs inside the fence between her and the home of a client.

"Do they bite?”

The owner said no.

Carrying a heavy box of medical equipment, McCarty made it a few steps inside the fence at the Wilburton home before she felt something hit her side, then a bite.

She covered her face, but the dogs knocked her to the gro...

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