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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Dog put down after attack kills horse Peter W. Rusland
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dog owner is negotiating expenses with a Cobble Hill family whose two horses were viciously attacked Friday. “Leash and control your dogs,” CVRD bylaw-enforcement of¿cer, Nino Morano said, when asked about the mauling’s moral. “Every dog has a trigger and you don’t want to go through what these people went through. It will impact both parties for a very long time.” He said a valley woman was walking a leashed, “pit bull-type” dog around noon on a Crown land recreation side of Cobble Hill Mountain. The canine escaped its owner’s grip, entered a nearby property, then attacked two horses, Morano said of the hobby-farm acreage whose owners weren’t home. “The dog owner attempted to retrieve her dog. By the time she got to the dog, signi¿cant damage was done to both horses.” A vet was called and determined one of the horses had to be euthanized. The dog was also put down shortly after the attack, Morano said. He declined to name the dog and horse owners. Cowichan Valley Regional District staff were still investigating the dog’s history, and why it attacked, though Morano was satis¿ed public safety was restored with its death. Its owners were also puzzled about why the canine pounced. “They had no indication this dog was capable of this.” All dogs have have a prey-hunting instinct no matter what breed or size, but some dogs can cause more damage than others, he said. “This dog bit one horse on part of the heel where it signi¿cantly impacted that leg. The vet determined the leg would never be the same.” The horses, of undetermined age or breed, kicked at the menacing mutt but it didn’t stop, Morano explained. The CVRD isn’t proceeding with ¿nes against the owner. “The dog owner has taken full responsibility, is communicating with the horse owner, and indicates they want to compensate them for the loss, and the vet costs,” he said, noting bills could be thousands. The CVRD has no breed-speci¿c dog bylaws. Fines for owners of dogs at large, or vicious ones, start at $250 per attack, then enter legal action, and the pet’s destruction. B.C. laws allow shooting of any animal threatening livestock, he noted.
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Fire chief Ken Bulcock takes command of the scene as Cowichan Bay Fire Rescue crews respond to a structure Äre at 1291 Fisher Road at approximately 5:15 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 26.
Dramatic Fisher Road Äre injures two residents after sending Åames shooting 50 feet in the air Peter W. Rusland
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big outbuilding shop was destroyed, while its owners received minor burns, during Monday night’s dramatic ¿re at 1291 Fisher Road, Cowichan Bay’s ¿re chief says. “It’s a total loss. It was a detached woodworking shop and on arrival it was fully engulfed,” Ken Bulcock said of the residence’s shop holding tools, plus acetylene and propane tanks. Those fuels worried Bulcock and his 21 ¿re¿ghters who arrived at around 5:15 p.m. to
battle the blaze seen from the Island Highway. “The Àames were like 50 or 60 feet in the air,” he said. “It was just a ball of ¿re. “We were worried about explosions, but the owner turned off the propane and Ken Bulcock: removed acetylene bottles a ball of fire from the main part of the shop,” the chief said. Bulcock declined to name the owner, who ¿rst fought the inferno with a ¿re extinguisher. “The owner arrived home to see smoke and
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Àames inside the structure. “He dumped a ¿re extinguisher inside, but that was unsuccessful. With the wooden building consisting of ¿r, it just took off.” But the owner didn’t. “He and his mother received minor burns from attempt to extinguish the blaze. “They were both holding garden hoses when we got there within minutes,” Bulcock w explained. The single-storey, wooden building, measuring about 1,100 square feet, was not insured. Bulcock ¿gured the loss is worth about $10,000. The ¿re’s cause is still being investigated.
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