WORRIED SHEEP.
ALSATIAN DOG DESTROYED. (Per Press Association.) FEILDING, February 19. After killing or maiming 19 lambs and grown sheep, an Alsatian dog was destroyed by the police to-day. Mr D. Burke, a farmer near if ei) cling, found a dog this morning killing his lam.bs. He gave chase and shot the dog, which, though wounded, escaped, but eventually was traced to its home. ",. Sergeant Angland used 12 bullets from an automatic pistol and then had to use an axe to kill the Alsatian. Mr Burke found on examination that the dog was biting lambs in the throat. It had also disembowelled some grown sheep. He chased it with a gun and wounded it with the only shot he had. He traced it to its home, where the police, on being called, ended its life.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 111, 20 February 1935, Page 8
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