VIDEO| Dog owner wants answers from cops

Owner of 5 Rottweilers

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Patrick Patoray is the owner of five Rottweiler dogs, two of which escaped from his fenced-in back yard.

YOUNGSTOWN — The owner of two large dogs that caused a stir outside a Circle K store on the West Side early Monday says he just wants to know what really happened that night.

Patrick Patoray, 43, of Millet Avenue is the owner of five Rottweiler dogs, two of which escaped from his fenced-in back yard in the middle of the night Sunday.

At about 3:30 a.m., Youngstown police were called to the 1821 Mahoning Ave. store. The two dogs had traveled a block or so from their home to the Circle K lot, where one of them was barking aggressively at the door.

A police report from that night says two officers responded, called for a dog warden, waited 30 to 45 minutes, then acted on their own when the dog warden didn’t arrive.

The report says officers used their cars to herd the dogs away from the store, causing one of the dogs to get hit by a cruiser.

Neither dog was recovered by police.

Patoray said one of the dogs, a 10-year-old male named Sampson, didn’t come home for two days. The dog had walked to the nearby Calvary Cemetery and stayed there.

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