A week-old foal was mutilated in a suspected dog attack at a Leduc County horse farm, where the owner said bylaw has been called several times over ner neighbour's aggressive pets.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.GRAPHIC WARNING: A week-old foal is recovering after suffering gruesome injuries near Beaumont . Its owner believes the neighbour's dogs are responsible and she says she’s frustrated it happened after several complaints were made to Leduc County about the pets. Erik Bay reports.
On Tuesday around 8 a.m., Manning-McNichol was in her house on the property when she got a call from her barn manager that the neighbour’s dogs were in the yard chasing a mare and foal, and they’d called Leduc County bylaw. “I called back and said, yes, there’s damage. There’s this foal that has been mutilated, and at this point we’re taking off to the vet.”The week-old foal named Manhattan Project — Mani, for short — was loaded up in a trailer with its mother and rushed to Delaney Veterinary Services near Sherwood Park, where mom and baby remain under 24-hour care. Its deep wounds have been stitched up but it will be a long road to recovery.
She added in the past, the neighbour’s kids would come over and physically haul the dogs home “because they don’t have particularly good recall. So they would come pick them up, take them off the property, always apologizing.”Global News spoke to the neighbour, Kelly Giesbrecht, on the phone. He didn’t want to do an interview but said he was surprised by the dog attack accusation and said his dogs have never been violent.
“I don’t care what breed it is either. There’s been lots of comments about the breed of these dogs. It doesn’t matter. Owners have to be responsible for their dogs.”Click to share quote on Twitter: "I don't care what breed it is either. There's been lots of comments about the breed of these dogs. It doesn't matter. Owners have to be responsible for their dogs."
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