ROCKHOLDS, Ky. (WKYT) - Whitley County officials say crews are continuing to search for wild dogs after a pack of them attacked a two-year-old boy on Monday.
“It’s been a nightmare. I would’ve never imagined this would happen. Not in a million years,” said James Parisho, the father of the two-year-old attacked in the Rockholds community south of Corbin.
'not in a million years', huh. Well, now he's wised up. Too bad it took an attack on a 2 yr old.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me a lot of people don't even think about loose running dogs forming packs.
Happens in large cities too.
We get a lot of dogs dumped on our Homestead. The options are catch and take to the pound or shoot if they are uncatchable or aggressive. People suck and I get pretty angry being put in that position constantly. Feral dogs can be a real problem
ReplyDeleteI have cousins that live in the country and the idiots from the city think it's a great place to dump their dogs. It got bad enough that one of the little old ladies would always buy a steak on her way home. She'd toss it as far from her car as she could and then make a run for it. Eventually the neighbors found out, teamed up with shotguns, and eliminated the problem.
DeleteSame type of issue with people dumping pet cats.
My father would carry a 1911 when hunting where we lived in North Georgia. That way if he was ambushed by a pack of wild dogs, he could climb a tree and shoot them from there.
ReplyDeleteDogs without collars were always feral, and they were treated as threats.
Here in the early 70’s in Winston county Alabama people would come out of B’ham and dump their dogs. Well all my Uncles were into cattle and chicken houses. They wound up having to set round ups to take care of the feral dogs. If the dogs at that time had a chance they’ed chase after these men counting their stock. Never go to the pasture unarmed.
ReplyDeleteIdiots from the city would dump their dogs off out where I grew up all the time. If the poor things didn't die right away they almost always ended up running with other abandoned dogs.
ReplyDeleteThose packs were a terror on the livestock - as chasing down sheep or getting into a coop is a lot easier than catching something free, wild, and undomesticated.
It was an unspoken rule that everyone in the area was supposed to shoot any packs of feral dogs whenever you could.
I was accosted by two, full-grown, (100lbs+), snarling pit bulls on a remote country road. I was NOT carrying that day-I was taking a short walk,!1/2 mile from my homestead. (All my NorCal neighbors are growers, so Pitbulls.)
ReplyDeleteI figured I was toast. So, in a last-ditch Hail-Mary, I raised my arms over my head, and started roaring, and ran towards them. Thankfully, they bolted back home.
"Oh, sorry-next time, just shoot them", their owner said later.
Irony is-they loved me after that.
It's not just dump dogs, it's also the owners that don't believe in keeping their dogs fenced or otherwise under control. We had a band of dogs that attacked the sheep that the owners insisted "my dog would never!" When we shot a couple, the owner couldn't argue with the wool in their mouths, altho they tried. One was a st bernard, another a husky mix. They got a bill for the sheep.
ReplyDeleteWe have a similar issue here. The reservation is only 10km away and they take the bug payout and get expensive dogs. Within a few weeks they forget about them and the dogs wander iff and join a feral pack. The rez has some huge packs with more than 30 dogs. Legally nothing we can do as its native lands, until they cone off then we can shoot them. They hunt chickens, children and cats mostly. Some of the packs are odd mixes of pure breed dogs that joined and weird mixes born into the pack. Saw a full size poodle in one once
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