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Expelled pit bull suspected of return The Joplin GlobeBy the time Grimmett got there, the dog was gone. Blaney told her that his ex-wife, Rose Lozano, had picked it up with the intent of releasing it in the country. Grimmett said she told Blaney to contact Lozano and tell her she needed to return the dog for quarantine.
When Grimmett returned to the Blaney home later in the afternoon, Lozano called her and told her she had let Fiddy Cent loose in a graveyard near Carl Junction. Grimmett said she told Lozano and Blaney that they needed to surrender the dog for quarantine by the following morning, and that Lozano took the dog back to Blaney's residence by 5 p.m. the day of the bite. Grimmett said she told Blaney that he needed to either agree to pay for a 10-day quarantine or relinquish ownership of the dog, with the likelihood that the dog would be tested for rabies and killed. Blaney reportedly relinquished ownership, and the dog was taken to the Joplin Humane Society, where the decision was made to kill the dog. "It just made more sense to euthanize the dog without risking the chance of shelter staff getting bit," Grimmett said. Grimmett said she knew from the incident last August that Lozano and her current husband, Victor Gardner, who live about a block away from Blaney, owned the pit bull called Cain at the time of that incident. Judge Mark Elliston had ordered them to remove Cain from the city limits. A neighbor told Grimmett that she had heard Blaney's children refer to the dog that bit the Wilkins girl as "Cain." Grimmett said that when she first asked Blaney if Cain and Fiddy Cent were the same dog, he denied it and told her that his children loved Cain so much that they tended to call Fiddy Cent by that name. Lozano told her that they were not the same dog, and that she had turned Cain over to a sister who lived outside the city limits. But, when she later asked Lozano to produce Cain, Lozano told her that he had been hit by a car last Thanksgiving while at her sister's place and was no longer alive, Grimmett said. No one answered the telephone at Blaney's home Wednesday afternoon, and the Globe could not reach Lozano or Gardner for comment. Vicious dogs Residents are prohibited from keeping vicious dogs inside the city limits in Webb City. Vicious dogs are defined as any dog that is trained as a guard dog or watchdog by its current owner or a previous owner, and any dog that has injured people or damaged property. 
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