Posted on 09/19/2018 2:09:40 PM PDT by robowombat
TOOELE, Utah — The owner of a female husky faces a slew of charges after the dog allegedly killed more than two dozen animals in the backyards of at least two Utah homes in just a couple of hours, according to KSTU.
Police caught the culprit – a 4-year old husky – and now her owner is facing nearly 30 misdemeanor charges.
One of the Tooele residents who lost several animals, Trip Kiss, runs a petting zoo with his wife to teach animal husbandry to children with disabilities. Chickens, ducks, peacocks, a turkey and a tortoise, are just a few of the zoo's residents.
In the early morning hours of Memorial Day, he said his motion sensors went off. When Kiss looked at the surveillance video, it showed a husky running around his yard and driveway. He said the husky was targeting his animals.
"He was chewing our goose that was at the back end there, he dug out the rabbits in their enclosure," Kiss explained.
In the video, Kiss said the Husky can be seen carrying away two rabbits. It trots out of the camera's view and into the dark.
When Kiss realized what was happening, he said the husky had already killed several of his animals.
"Two rabbits, two ducks, five chickens, a turkey, a goose," Kiss said.
He said the goose was specially trained.
"The goose was so friendly," Kiss said. "It would follow us around at Renaissance fairs, charities."
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Husky types can be hyper and high-drive. Combine it with solid prey drive and they could very definitely do this.
These are small prey animals. Not overly shocking.
But yeah, too many killed to not execute the dog as well.
We have lightened up since 9/11/01 and we are fighting a losing battle because of that.
I learned later they had a habit of getting out. Even though animal control had been called on them before the owner apparently was able to talk his way out of their being put down. The next time they got out though the neighbor did not bother to call animal control first. He just shot them as they were trying to get into his rabbit cages.
Then he called animal control.
Reminds me of the time my friends lab ate one of her nylon stockings. After a couple of days, it had worked its way through the dog's digestive track and was halfway hanging out of.... Strangest thing to see.
Why would you think that. Dogs are hunters and at times they will go after animals it sees as prey. Even that dog with owners who swear it would never, ever kill anything. This is why in farm or ranch country it is a given that if your dog harasses or kills livestock it will get shot. You can only do so much to take nature out of a dog.
Lots of predatory animals kill for fun.
There is nothing unusual about this.
In nature, they do not have the opportunity very often.
Sure you can. You just can’t tell anyone.
And let that nice doggie run with three other dogs and he becomes a killing machine.
Only box turtles can button up. The average tortoise can tuck in a little but they don’t have a box turtle’s jointed plastron to close and a pointy-nosed dog can still rip up the legs, esp. the rear ones, because they are exposed.
Oh yes. The packs are the most dangerous. To people too.
it’s not the taste, it that they are prey. This is not learned behavior. The Husky is in no more need of killing now than it did when it woke up that morning.
Sounds like that Husky had a negligent and/or clueless owner-you can’t let a 2nd cousin to a wolf dog like German Shepherd, Husky, Malamute, etc run around unleashed/unattended-the dog will come to a bad end or cost you a lot of money in damages...
I bought my female Siberian Husky as an 8 week old puppy from an AKC show-and-sled dog kennel in WA near the Canadian border. She was exposed to humans and cats from an early age-good thing, since she grew to be a big Husky-nearly 80 lbs as an adult-I was warned by the breeder not to leave her unattended because they are escape artists, like to hunt rabbits and other prey animals-and most are not friendly to dogs-especially small ones. Since it is hot here, she lived indoors and was only in the fenced area of this property with me, or on a long leash to walk with me on the hiking trails.
Even supervised, she still managed to kill several squirrels and a wild rabbit and was shaking my neighbor’s Yorkie when I managed to get it away from her-the little dog had wiggled under the gate to get onto the property, but it never did so again. She was great with people but jumped up and snarled like a wolf at an intruder-startling him and giving me time to grab my pistol-he fled. She loved all cats-she let mine sleep on her bed with her, curled up on her fur-but she had been around felines all her life-she never did care much for other dogs, so I kept her away from them. She just stopped in her sleep at the age of 17+-I still miss her 2 years later-best and most loyal dog I ever had...
I love Huskies and all the big guard/working breed dogs-I’ve had a Chow and two German Shepherds, to- and they all required a strong alpha human and pack leader to bond with, and they need to be well trained, and kept under their owner’s control-otherwise, they will run amok and do things like the one in this article did. If you can’t learn to handle a large, headstrong dog, get a smaller more docile dog for a companion...
No.......
Years ago worked with a guy who was transferred to our plant in Shelbyville KY.
He bought a house out in the boonies as well as two huskies. Unfortunately for him, they weren't fenced in and one day they wandered off the property and attacked and killed a neighbor's cow................
They were put down and he was assessed the cost of the cow to the owner.
OMG! I laughed so hard at your poodle story! I hope you gave your dog extra treats! (psst..don’t tell anyone, but I’m a fan and owner of a big dog..I’d rather be pet-less than have one of those little yippy dogs!)
Unless someone has a spot for another dog we have to put them down. There are few things more dangerous then a dog pack.
Sure, after the dog is put down.........Once a killer, always a killer.
Cost money and time to feed livestock. Can’t afford weight being run off cows or calves being hurt. Neither can you afford your other animals hurt. Here in Idaho you might get a neighbors courtesy visit on the first offense. Best not be a second offense. With ownerships comes great responsibility, keep them home or loose them. It’s the owners choice.
“That dog must be put down. “
Save the dog...shoot the owner.
I should hope so.
Pretty simple- owner in jail until the situation entirely rectified (ALL animals and damage replace- nothing by 3 hots and a cot until then.)
Same thing that should happen to pit bull owners whose dogs injure or kill- your ass gets out when they come back to life or regrow the bodypart.
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