EATON TWP. — Deputy dog warden Nelson Delgado said today that two large dogs that attacked a woman yesterday were found dead this morning alongside Route 82 and had apparently been hit overnight.

The dogs’ owner, Donald Goble Jr., 27, was charged with having dogs at large and failure to have a kennel license. The law requires such a license for anyone keeping more than eight dogs; Delgado said Goble had 11 including the two Kane Corso mastiffs.

Delgado said Goble also couldn’t produce paperwork showing the dogs had received their rabies shots, so the dogs’ bodies will have to be tested. Goble, he said, apologized for the fact that his dogs bit neighbor and veterinarian Lisa Fox Wright, but Delgado said that wasn’t enough.

“The bottom line is that she’s pregnant and she got attacked,” Delgado said today.

Delgado had called off his search at dusk Wednesday night for two large dogs that broke through a fence of a pen in the 36000 block of Royalton Road and attacked Fox Wright, who lives nearby.

Fox Wright, 25, was bitten on both arms and was taken by ambulance to EMH Regional Medical Center where she was treated for puncture wounds.

Delgado said the dogs appeared to be a mating pair and are two of 11 dogs he spotted on the property at 36821 Royalton Road. No caretakers for the dogs appeared to be home at the time of the attack, he said.

Later Wednesday night, Fox Wright, who is pregnant, was resting at home, according to her husband, Jim Wright Jr.

Fox Wright’s father, William Fox, arrived at his daughter’s home shortly after the attack.

“She got chewed up pretty well,” said Fox, who operates Fox Veterinary Hospital on LaGrange Road in Carlisle Township with his daughter and other vets.

Two schoolchildren, Tiffani Cricks, 10, and Shawn Cricks, 14, who live across the highway from Fox Wright said the dogs ran at them when they got off the bus shortly before their neighbor was bitten.

Their stepfather, Herb Arnoczky, said he came around the side of the house with the family dog, Dixie, and the much larger mastiffs ran after her in a ferocious manner.

“I kicked one and yelled ‘Get out of here,’ and they took off,” Arnoczky said. “They’ve gotten loose many times but never made it over here.”

Meanwhile, Tiffani called her brother “my hero” because he was preparing to fight off the dogs with his book bag until Dixie diverted their attention.

It took nearly an hour and a half for the deputy dog warden to show up. Meanwhile, the dogs chased several cars on busy state Route 82 following the attack.

One woman circled back to tell Eaton Township firefighters, “You know those dogs attacked my car.”

Delgado said he was on call because it is Veterans Day and was at home in Lorain when the call came in. He said the response would have been quicker had the county kennel been open.

The attack occurred about 3 p.m., and Delgado arrived at about 4:20 p.m.

He said he searched for the dogs in the semi-rural area until it turned dark. He had warned anyone seeing the dogs not try to approach them because they were dangerous. He expressed concern for his own safety while pursuing them with only a stun gun for protection. The male was brown and the female, which was smaller, is black.

Delgado said there have been a number of dog-at-large complaints coming from that address.

The owner of the property, Michael Sauter, of North Olmsted, said he had been trying to reach the people who rent the house and barn because they are two months behind in their rent. Sauter, who is 82, asked his son to come to the property to speak with authorities. The son, who declined to be named, said yesterday he had no way to contact the occupants because they have not answered calls and their voicemail was full.

Contact Cindy Leise at 329-7245 or cleise@chroniclet.com.

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