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(35,601 posts)The Elbert County Sheriffs Office is looking for two dogs they think have killed more than a dozen farm animals in the past two weeks, including at least 12 alpacas and four goats
Undersheriff Dave Fisher said the pair may be responsible for even more attacks. The killings, most of which have occurred at night, may have been going on for several months, bringing the total number of animals dead to more than 30. The Sheriffs Office has received no reports of the dogs injuring any humans.
Nine of those alpacas belong to Ray Engelke. He found them dead on his property Thursday morning, in the barn. First, he found a dead alpaca outside and then the eight others were inside.
I raised them all from crias [young alpacas]... It just kills me," he said. "Ive never seen anything so horrible in my life."
Engelke also spotted the two dogs near the carnage. He stayed long enough to snap a picture, then put some distance between himself and the dogs and called the sheriff.
Marlgozata Gorneiwicz-Portsche said she believes the same two dogs killed three alpacas on her property nearby. She and her husband found their alpacas dead in the yard Tuesday morning.
I am very upset. I am heartbroken, she said.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/elizabeth-residents-on-edge-after-dogs-kill-12-alpacas-4-goats-in-2-weeks/73-7da933f7-6592-4ec0-b6c4-f726e569de52
