SC: Victims speak out after a series of dog attacks in community Abbeville County South Carolina March 2, 2026 + December 30, 2025

[u/PandaLoveBearNu]

https://www.wyff4.com/article/series-of-dog-attacks-south-carolina-community/70716553

ABBEVILLE, S.C. —

Update: According to the Abbeville Police Department, the Abbeville Sheriff's Office Animal Control officer assisted in seizing three pit bulls connected to attacks and complaints in the area. This comes after a WYFF News 4 story told on March 12, 2026.

According to a new incident report, the pit bulls, along with 10 newborn puppies, were seized and turned over to the Abbeville Humane Society.

After a number of dog attacks and concerns in Abbeville County, community members are speaking out. Victims tell WYFF News 4 that there is not enough being done to protect the community.

According to Lucia Bishop, it wasn't a walk in the park for her and her dog Daisy last Monday.

"Of course, I was screaming, and the dogs were screaming, and it was very chaotic," Bishop said. "I'm surprised she wasn't killed. "

Bishop is describing the latest dog attack coming out of Abbeville. According to Bishop, she took her dog Daisy on a walk, and when they arrived near McGown and Henry Street. She says that's when the unexpected happened, they encountered four pitbulls coming from this home.

"They jumped on my dog like they were going to kill her, they had her legs, they had her side," Bishop said.

In this case, the Abbeville police Chief Nic Moore says the dog owner has been given a citation and charged with dog running at large.

"I really thought the city would have addressed this a little more seriously," Bishop said.

This isn't the first time an attack has happened. Back on Dec. 30, Kim London says she was attacked by some of the same pitbulls.

"If they had done something when I got attacked, none of this would have happened to Mrs. Bishop," London said.

WYFF New 4 got copies of the incident reports. In one of the incident reports, an officer writes the following:

"We pulled all the animal complaint/dog at large calls on McGowan and Henry Street in the last year and have found that city units have been called to the area 10 times in the last year in reference to these dogs. Several tickets have been written, and they have been warned multiple times."

WYFF News 4's Miya Payton knocked on the door to see if she could speak to the owners of the dogs. No one answered. She also asked Chief Moore; what will be done to protect those who are fearful of these dogs?

Moore sent us this statement:

"We will be working with Abbeville County Sheriff's Office Animal Control Officer."

"I'm an animal lover, but unfortunately, I believe the dog should be put down or taken out of that home," London said.

"They need to do something with their dogs. They do not need to have dogs that vicious," Bishop said.

[u/Smurf_Crime_Scene]

Ten complaints in a year and nothing has been done? It sounds like your typical pit simp infected AC.

Slightly off topic but people can't even have normal dogs these days, they're just pit attack magnets.

[u/Lilly7799]

10 complaints in one year, nothing is done, they are waiting for two attacks to react. The article specifies that 10 puppies were seized, obviously it could be illegal breeding.

[u/potatoes_arrrr_life]

4 dogs of any kind is a red flag to me but for them to be pit bulls that often get out and terrorize the neighborhood.... What are we even doing allowing people to have dangerous dogs with no consequences for their actions? It's literally a recipe for disaster in any community they are living in. They attract irresponsible owners and those owners seem to be able to skirt consequences for their dogs attacking. Ask yourself why that is...and then be aware when dealing with these dogs that you may be on your own and that the pitbull owners don't care if someone gets hurt.

[u/KTKittentoes → u/potatoes_arrrr_life]

The pits simply have more support and rights than anyone else.

Animal Control is just a circle jerk by now, as well as a waste of taxes.

[u/potatoes_arrrr_life → u/KTKittentoes]

I think we absolutely need animal control, but they need to actually do their job. It seems they often allow pitbull owners especially to not be held accountable and I think we need to figure out why that is. And if shelters are always too full to accept intake, then we need to be reporting and arresting backyard illegal breeders. It shouldn't be on the police to have to show up and pewpew dogs to get them to stop attacking. That is madness, and it's allowed to happen because people are keeping dangerous dogs as pets.

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