WANDERING DOGS ATTACK COWS IN MOYCULLEN

Date Published: 23-Dec-2012

FARMERS in the Moycullen area are suffering serious losses as marauding dogs have been attacking cows in the area over the past few weeks.

One farmer had to have a cow destroyed after the animal broke her leg while being chased by the marauding dogs.

The latest attack was on Friday night and this is one of at least six such incidents, four of them very serious, as in-calf cows, and on some occasions small calves, were chased around fields and over ditches, drains, walls and other fences by the out-of-control dogs.

The attacks have happened in the Newtown, Corbally and Dovepark areas of Moycullen.

The Gardai say that anyone who sees marauding dogs chasing livestock, or who have any information, should contact their nearest Garda Station immediately.

The Gardai say that the owners of such dogs will face the full rigours of the law if their pets are wandering out-of-control and terrorising livestock.