{"id":34091,"date":"2023-07-25T09:11:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T14:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=34091"},"modified":"2023-07-25T09:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T14:11:43","slug":"watch-residents-in-north-highlands-worried-for-months-about-neighborhood-dog-that-attacked-mail-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2023\/07\/25\/watch-residents-in-north-highlands-worried-for-months-about-neighborhood-dog-that-attacked-mail-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Residents in North Highlands worried for months about neighborhood dog that attacked mail carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7HtbTKbPZo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NORTH HIGHLANDS &#8212; 7\/24\/23 &#8211; A 73-year-old mail carrier is in recovery Monday after he was attacked by a dog in North Highlands while on the job last week.<\/p>\n<p>The man typically delivered mail to the dog&#8217;s owner from the street, the owner told CBS13 on Monday, but would not share his name and did not want to be identified. Through a security gate on his front door, the owner told CBS13 that the mail carrier would call from the street when he arrived, to avoid contact with the Pitbull named Blue.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, he explained, the mail carrier came up to the front door, and that&#8217;s when Blue escaped the house and pulled the mail carrier to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>In video shared with CBS13 by Keith Williams Sr. and Jr., the father and son who live next door to the attack, the dog&#8217;s owner attempts to intervene in the attack, but falls over onto the mail carrier in the process. The dog continues to attack the carrier&#8217;s face and hands while neighbors begin distractions. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/north-highlands-neighbors-worried-about-dog-involved-in-mail-carrier-attack-for-months\/\">CBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Carrier-Dog-Attack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34093\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Carrier-Dog-Attack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Carrier-Dog-Attack.jpg 558w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Carrier-Dog-Attack-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Carrier-Dog-Attack-123x70.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH HIGHLANDS &#8212; 7\/24\/23 &#8211; A 73-year-old mail carrier is in recovery Monday after he was attacked by a dog in North Highlands while on the job last week. The man typically delivered mail to the dog&#8217;s owner from the street, the owner told CBS13 on Monday, but would not share his name and did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34094,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34091\/revisions\/34094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}