Three cases of river otters biting people or dogs in Anchorage may have involved the same band of animals.
On Friday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game implored the city’s residents to “be alert around local lakes and rivers” after a spate of incidents that may or may not have involved the same otter group:On Sept. 1, a river otter bit 9-year-old Ayden Fernandez at a duck pond in East Anchorage. Ayden’s mother, Tiffany,a video in which one otter broke away from a group and chased her two sons and their friends.
This week, a woman had to rescue her dog from what the Fish and Game Department described as a “similar group of river otters” at the city’s University Lake, and wound up getting bitten herself.The Fish and Game Department’s statement said, “It is possible that the same group of river otters were responsible,” noting that river otters can travel to different areas over both land and water.If found, the otters’ fate is likely grim.
The department noted, however, that officials will be careful only to remove otters exhibiting unusually aggressive behavior.In November 2019, an otter attacked a dog at Anchorage’s University Lake, though the dog’s owner didn’t get a clear enough glimpse to tell if the aquatic aggressor was an otter or a beaver.told local news station KTUU
at the time. “I called for [my dog] and bam. They pulled her under at least twice. It was horrifying.” And in October 2019, four otters went after a dog at a different lake in Anchorage, biting and pulling a 50-pound husky mix under the surface, the dog’s ownerMore renegade otters ...
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