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(Reuters) - As part of her grand plan to visit all 50 U.S. state capitols before her 70th birthday, Deidra Horan drove to Oklahoma City a few weeks ago. She toured the capitol, but that's not her most vivid memory of the trip.
Horan, 64, was attacked by four large stray dogs shortly after she left the building, and was badly bitten.

It was the latest in a series of headaches for statehouse officials that have included tumbling plaster inside the building and a battle over a monument to Satan outside the 97-year-old neoclassical structure.

Horan, a dealer in antique postcards from Colorado, suffered a deep bite on her buttock and has rung up about $22,000 in rabies shots and other medical bills.
“It was the most horrible experience in my life,” she said. “It has been a historical journey, but the visit to Oklahoma has not been nice.”

She is the second woman to have been attacked outside the capitol by marauding pit-bull-mix dogs in recent weeks. Other visitors have been chased through the grounds, narrowly escaping attack.

Meanwhile, dogcatchers dispatched to the area have captured five stray canines.

"We think we got them all, but the dog situation in Oklahoma City is dynamic," Trace Lyons, field supervisor for Oklahoma City’s Animal Welfare Division, said this week.

"We still have five traps at the capitol that we check regularly."