[GovernmentShrinker]

Deputies said many neighbors had seen the dogs and thought they were strays. They said no one has admitted to owning the dogs

So many neighbors (probably including the dead boy's parents) had previously seen unfenced, unleashed pit bulls wandering around the mobile home park where children play outside, and did nothing about it.

[MonicaG]

I wonder, because I once called city animal control found them to be an impotent bureaucracy. I was basically told I'd have to make a citizens' arrest, after the obvious owners of the illegal, wandering animals-in-question denied knowledge of whose these roaming animals were, because Animal Control would only send them letters but could not enforce anything. I could only hope that they'd exert more authority if I'd been reporting pitt bulls.

[kanawa]

So many neighbors (probably including the dead boy's parents) had previously seen unfenced, unleashed pit bulls wandering around the mobile home park where children play outside, and did nothing about it.

The dogs were reported to the park office a few days previous to this incident.
What happened after that, I don't know.
Harris County field officers impounded more than 7000 stray dogs last year.

[SuziQ]

No one even bothered to call the Animal Control Officer? Just irresponsible.