Greensboro Reporter

A dog-sitting gig turned tragic Thursday for Trena Peed, a Greensboro woman after the dogs she was watching turned on her, fatally attacking her in the backyard.

Days after the attack, Helen Harris, Peed’s mother, said she still hasn’t heard from the owners of the dogs.

“I understand it was not intentional, but I just talked to my daughter on Tuesday, and I told her you need to get (those) dogs out of your house,” Harris said in a WFMY report. "Whoever the owner is, they need to come forward because they say they love my daughter. This is not showing love for her right now.”

The 911 dispatcher received a call after a passerby noticed Peed was in trouble.

One of the canines was shot by police and the other is being held at Guilford County Animal Services, WFMY reported. No charges have been filed in the case, though one of Peed’s sisters’ thinks the owners of the dogs should be held accountable.

"That's your responsibility,” Waynesha Peed said in the report. “Yeah, she was watching them, (but) that's still your responsibility.”

Harris has seen her share of death, losing two grandsons when they were just teenagers, and her husband. This one was worse because it was needless, she said.

“This is the worst death I ever experienced in my life and I ain’t taking it lightly and I ain’t laying down resting because I believe somebody could’ve helped my baby out there,” Harris said in the report.

Harris is looking for the dog's owners so she can find closure.  

"I’m not trying to cause nobody no heartache or nothing like that, but they say the dogs (were) vicious,” Harris said. “I don’t know. I wasn’t there, but that’s what the police said they (were) vicious that’s why they shot him."

The family, meanwhile, is struggling with the loss.

"She was so sweet, no matter what she was going through, she would still be smiling,” Peed said of her sister.