It sounds like the Owner and his dog were both GUILTY!
As soon as I saw the phrase that he was ‘protecting his livestock’, I began to see the tragedy in a possibly different light.
Huskies are beautiful, smart and notorious for escaping their confines to roam freely. Some dogs of any breed will fall into instinctive predator behavior patterns and cannot be broken of it.
They can only be held back. It’s very sad, but if you have a dog, people don’t have to accept that dog coming onto their property. No, they do not.
I never said the owner or husky was innocent. I did say the owner did try and the owner did pay for damages in the past and would have again. He also built a bigger fence but mother nature had her say in the matter. To me that is very responsible. The owner tried.
I mean if the man is trying could not the neighbor have worked with him???
This whole thing just looks bad more so the name of the dog. I know who the neighbor is too even though the DM has not published it. His name is already out there and his life is going to be hell over this.
The whole dog name story is for inflammatory value. This is a case of neighbors who were at odds. Whether politics had anything to do with it is not indicated - because one person had a dog (or apparently from some reports, multiple) who had a history of killing the neighbor’s livestock. Fence or no fence (supposedly strengthened but taken out by snow storm) - a pet owner has a responsibility to keep their pets retrained to their own property - otherwise, they are responsible for any damage or trouble they may cause - and in the country - a dog chasing or threatening MY pets, family, or livestock will be dealt with appropriately.
I looked up the law on this in Pennsylvania relating to a neighbor’s dogs chasing and killing wild turkeys in our yard, after repeated warnings.
They threatened to have me arrested so I gave them a copy of the law.
Turkeys are considered big game. Not only can you shoot the dog and the law protects you from cruelty to animal charges, but you are to turn the dead dog over to game officials so they can cite the dog owner.
I didn’t shoot it as the owner was the jerk, not the dog.
Years ago a coworker transferred to our plant in Kentucky. He had two huskies that killed a neighbor’s cow. If they do it once, they’ll do it again so he had them put down......
Two words would have kept the dog in obedience— invisible fence— the owner has no one to blame but himself.