KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Blount County Animal Control officer has been sent to the hospital after he was attacked by two pit bulls.

Authorities say the officer was checking up on the dogs after they had recently been quarantined for attacking a 15-year-old boy. The officer was treated and released from Blount Memorial Hospital.

Deborah Kay Dyer, the dogs' owner, has been charged with reckless endangerment with her dogs' attack on officer Kenneth Crowder on Thursday.

Police say the dogs also attacked a 15 year old two weeks ago.

Dyer was scheduled to be in court Friday for a seperate incident in which the pit bulls' attacked a neighbor's small dog in December.

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