MCgunner
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Had a pack kill my cats a while back. Shot at one to run 'em off not knowing they'd killed my old house cat. Found her out back mowing and then I was POed for sure. These dogs had killed my other cat's kittens, but I was going to have to give 'em away anyway.
They came back not long ago, I heard 'em barking down the street. I grabbed my .22 in the corner of my bedroom. My surviving cat was in the house, heard the barking, and bristled and growled like a friggin' mountain lion. I stepped out on the porch when the lead dog, a brown colored mutt, smallish, came around the driveway. I chambered a round and he took off like a banshee, apparently knew what a rifle was.
Well, this was in the paper today. These, I'm convinced, are the same danged dogs! I'm a couple of miles from the library they speak of. These dogs get around! I know John and glad he got a couple of 'em. I've been waiting for them to show back up so I could maybe torture the things some. That lead dog, be fun to shoot his lower jaw off so he'd starve to death. That's how much hatred I've built up thinking about these animals.
http://www.portlavacawave.com/articles/2006/08/04/news/news01.txt
They came back not long ago, I heard 'em barking down the street. I grabbed my .22 in the corner of my bedroom. My surviving cat was in the house, heard the barking, and bristled and growled like a friggin' mountain lion. I stepped out on the porch when the lead dog, a brown colored mutt, smallish, came around the driveway. I chambered a round and he took off like a banshee, apparently knew what a rifle was.
Well, this was in the paper today. These, I'm convinced, are the same danged dogs! I'm a couple of miles from the library they speak of. These dogs get around! I know John and glad he got a couple of 'em. I've been waiting for them to show back up so I could maybe torture the things some. That lead dog, be fun to shoot his lower jaw off so he'd starve to death. That's how much hatred I've built up thinking about these animals.
http://www.portlavacawave.com/articles/2006/08/04/news/news01.txt
Stray dogs kill sheep herd
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Friday, August 4, 2006 12:59 PM CDT
By CHARLYN FINN - A pack of dogs killed 13 of a Six Mile resident’s exotic sheep Saturday, July 23. John Kabela lost $6,000 worth of Painted Desert rams in the attack. Kabela, who had the sheep in his pasture on Bauer Road, managed to shoot two of the dogs but the rest escaped.
“These were just small dogs, the largest was not taller than 18 inches,” Kabela said. “They were mostly a reddish-tan color. One of those I shot was a kind of gray color.”
Kabela contacted both the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department and the Port Lavaca Animal Control office. Animal control officials tracked the dogs to Port Lavaca and found a place where they had been staying behind the Calhoun County Library, about 10 miles from the scene. Some of the dogs were located and had blood on their heads and chests.
Deputies are attempting to locate the rest of the dogs. Sheriff B.B. Browning said the canines did more damage the past Sunday to a county airport metal building used by a remote control airplane club.
“They must have chased some kind of an animal in there and actually bit holes in the building,” Browning said.
Kabela said Painted Desert Sheep grow hair instead of wool. They are sold to exotic game ranches. He said the sheep are rather special due to their multiple coloring.
“They are very docile and not in the least bit aggressive. They can be stressed out simply by being chased,” Kabela said. “They go into shock. After a while they just lay down and die. Out of 22 rams, I lost 13 to the dogs.”
Kabela said his rams did not die from stress but from a vicious attack. He said the sheep suffered many bites and were found with their entrails lying on the ground. They had bites all over their bodies and especially in the region of their heads and necks.
Kabela said he is concerned about the dogs running loose.
“They might attack people, little children,” he said. “My mother is 80-years-old and she lives on Bauer Road by my pasture.”
If the dogs had not killed his rams, Kabela would have sold the hair-bearers in an auction the past weekend. Many of them had reached trophy value, with long horns, he said.
One of the rams killed was four-and-a-half years old and several were one-and-a-half. Kabela is concerned that more of his rams may die due to the stress they experienced.
“I expect to lose more,” he said. “If they survive over the next few days they should be all right.” Kabela said he will continue to raise sheep. He still has some ewes and some young rams.
Browning reminds local residents that the county has a leash law that applies to dogs outside of city limits. Landowners have the right to kill stray dogs on their property.