Feb 19, 2009 6:52 pm US/Eastern
Dogs Quarantined After 2 Goats Mutilated
RISING SUN, Md. (WJZ) ―
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Three dogs are being held at a Cecil County shelter after two goats were found dead and mutilated.
Three dogs are being held at a Cecil County shelter after two goats were found dead and mutilated.
A man in Rising Sun was also attacked. He spoke with
Suzanne Collins.
Frank Corron usually takes his morning walk around 8 a.m. On Saturday, a short distance down the road, he says he came under attack by dogs.
"These two German shepherds came flying right toward me. I was in the middle of nowhere. I couldn't run, I had no weapon. All I could think was take my belt off," said Corron.
The 74-year-old says the dogs were snarling and growling and leaping for his legs. He whipped his belt at them to keep them away.
"I kept swiping at them, first one then the other. When I would swipe at one, the other one would charge me," said Corron.
Corron was able to get away, but his glasses fell off and broke. Two 200- pound goats at a house nearby were not so lucky.
"They mangled them. They ate them alive, tore chunks of flesh out of them," said Connie McIlwain, goat owner.
McIlwain says it's a good thing children weren't around at the time. The SPCA picked up three loose dogs believed to be responsible, and they are in quarantine.
The dogs were vomiting fur, which has been taken as evidence. A lawyer for the dogs' owner, who has not been charged, says the dogs slipped through an electric fence. He says his client doesn't believe his dogs killed the goats.
"After I found out about the goats, I think they would have done more than just bite me," said Corron.
Another Rising Sun resident says she keeps her good-natured German shepherd in a kennel, and she's complained to the SPCA several times since September about other dogs roaming loose. Once she says they killed a deer on her land.
"Something needs to be done. The community has gone crazy. It's ridiculous. You're afraid to come out to work in the morning. My husband was growled at by the two dogs," said Linda Wallace.
The SPCA says it has a record of Wallace's dog bite complaint but doesn't know if it involved the same dogs involved in Saturday's attacks.
The dogs, when captured, did not have the required county license tags or proof of rabies inoculation.
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