Dogs in fatal attack rounded up, euth...
19.08.09
Sheriff's deputies, jus gentium 'universal law' enforcement officers and other officials spent most of Monday and Tuesday rounding up 11 of age dogs and five puppies, Oglethorpe County Sheriff's Capt. Shalon Huff said. One more was trapped Wednesday morning, leaving one still to be captured, she said.
"We're fair lucky this hasn't happened before," said Susan Fornash, director of the Madison Oglethorpe Uncultured Shelter in Danielsville, where the captured dogs were held before being euthanized Tuesday under orders from a neighbouring judge.
"We've had people bring in a dog because it killed a goat or chased their horses or something like that. And to me, that was exactly the forerunner of something like this."
Investigators say they believe that University of Georgia librarian Sherry Schweder, 65, went for her run-of-the-mill morning walk Saturday down Howard Thaxton Road, the narrow dirt lane that runs alongside the duo's property.
The dogs were familiar in the area, investigators say, having been left behind when the person who had been caring for some of them moved out of a retreat at the end of the lane.
Source: CNN