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01-13-2012, 09:53 AM
A Dog...really? :ne_nau:
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SPANISH FORK -- A Utah County teen is asking dog owners to keep a better eye on
their pets. She says dozens of her animals were killed, all by a loose dog.
Spanish Fork High School senior Kelly Olsen has been raising sheep trying to earn scholarship money through the Future Farmers of America.
"I would raise them and figure out the genetic qualities out of them to make a really good show lamb, or market lamb," she said.
She had been working with these sheep for four years, three to four hours every day after she was done with school. When she went to feed them on Tuesday, she was startled by what she saw.
"I found three dead sheep, one barely alive, and the dog was [lying] with it," she said.
Olsen says 26 of her sheep were killed, in all. She believes it was all done by the same dog since there was only one set of prints in the ice and snow. She also thinks the dog is probably someone's pet. It looked like a black lab and didn't have the appearance of a wild or stray dog. It even seemed to act friendly to her until she angrily approached it, then it ran away.
Officials from the Utah County Sheriff's Office confirm they were called out to the farm, but Olsen says it became too hard to track the dog since it was getting dark.
"When I saw all the dead animals, I got really upset because I put all this hard work into them," she said. What's most upsetting to Olsen is the fact that years of her work are lost for good.
"You can't really replace the ones that we lost because those had really different genetics and their parents have passed away, so you can't get those same [genes] back," she explained.
Her father estimates the value of the sheep was near $28,000.
(Stock photo)
Source: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=18856008&title=loose-dog-killed-26-sheep-teen-says
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http://www.ksl.com/emedia/slc/2496/249607/24960794.jpg?filter=ksl/story_635 (http://www.ksl.com/emedia/slc/2496/249607/24960794.jpg)
SPANISH FORK -- A Utah County teen is asking dog owners to keep a better eye on
their pets. She says dozens of her animals were killed, all by a loose dog.
Spanish Fork High School senior Kelly Olsen has been raising sheep trying to earn scholarship money through the Future Farmers of America.
"I would raise them and figure out the genetic qualities out of them to make a really good show lamb, or market lamb," she said.
She had been working with these sheep for four years, three to four hours every day after she was done with school. When she went to feed them on Tuesday, she was startled by what she saw.
"I found three dead sheep, one barely alive, and the dog was [lying] with it," she said.
Olsen says 26 of her sheep were killed, in all. She believes it was all done by the same dog since there was only one set of prints in the ice and snow. She also thinks the dog is probably someone's pet. It looked like a black lab and didn't have the appearance of a wild or stray dog. It even seemed to act friendly to her until she angrily approached it, then it ran away.
Officials from the Utah County Sheriff's Office confirm they were called out to the farm, but Olsen says it became too hard to track the dog since it was getting dark.
"When I saw all the dead animals, I got really upset because I put all this hard work into them," she said. What's most upsetting to Olsen is the fact that years of her work are lost for good.
"You can't really replace the ones that we lost because those had really different genetics and their parents have passed away, so you can't get those same [genes] back," she explained.
Her father estimates the value of the sheep was near $28,000.
(Stock photo)
Source: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=18856008&title=loose-dog-killed-26-sheep-teen-says