Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:15:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Amber Cullen
Subject: Response to “dog vs. Llama”
I have been following the dog versus llama thread and feel a greater topic needs to be addressed. Many dogs, regardless of breed, have the potential to be vicious and will have a prey drive if given ample opportunity. Last week this dog attacked and killed a neighbor’s llama. Animal Control was called and responded by finding the owner. The dog was not current on it’s rabies vaccine and instead of the animal being confiscated AC told the owner the dog could not free roam, gave her a citation and told her she had to get a rabies vaccine. AC told the owner of the llama that he could proceed with a civil suit against the dog owner but they felt she would most likely be non-cooperative. That was it. No follow up. No checking on the owner to see if she had securely confined the dog. Everyone that has dogs knows exactly what was going to happen next. Once a dog attacks in that manner it will attack again if opportunity arises. The blasé dog owner tethered the dog, the dog got loose and went right back to attack and kill more llamas. AC knew most likely the dog owner would not do what was right. But of course AC did not do their job. Instead our lazy AC Department did the bare minimum of keeping our community safe from a dog they knew would most likely attack when it had opportunity again.
The fault here rests solely on the terrible owner of the dog and our useless AC Department. There is no doubt in my mind that if a group of kids were running and playing in a kddie pool that dog could have misconstrued them as prey and attacked them as viciously. This time it was a group of llamas. Sadly the dog had to be shot by the Sheriff’s Department during the frenzy of the attack- NOT ONCE but twice because the first shot wasn’t immediately lethal. Such a horrible way for the llamas and the dog to die for something that could have been prevented. BTW, it was not AC that came to manage the situation this weekend. It was the Sheriff’s Department that had to come.
Signed,
A Concerned Citizen of Chatham County