Neighbor Dogs Kill Beagle-Neighbor Sues Beagle Owner

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Some things are just crazy.  You know, those things that happen that fly in the face of common sense.  The story of attacking pit bulls, a poor dead beagle, and a lawsuit is one of those stories:

A random fence.  Shutterstock.
A random fence. Shutterstock.

(Newser) Last month, Emerald White’s four pit bulls got into a neighbor’s yard and killed that Texas family’s 10-year-old beagle. “Everyone was telling me to sue her, but I decided not to because it won’t bring Bailey back,” says Steve Baker, the beagle’s owner. So imagine his surprise when he and wife Tiffany were served with a $1 million lawsuit from White on Wednesday. In the lawsuit, White says that when she went into the Bakers’ Texas City yard to get her dogs during the Oct. 27 incident, she was “unexpectedly and viciously attacked” and “seriously injured.” She also accuses the Bakers of not keeping their dog in a secure enclosure, the Galveston County Daily News reports.

White’s dogs got into the Bakers’ yard through a hole in the shared fence between their yards. But in an interview earlier this month, Baker told the Daily News that each homeowner is responsible for the fence slats that face his home, and that “I had replaced all the slats that were my responsibility. I had even replaced a few of [the neighbors’].” Baker also now says that before Bailey was killed he tried to speak with the neighbors about fence repairs but got no response. In a report shortly after the attack, the Bakers’ daughter told Click2Houston that their neighbor had repaired the fence after the attack. White’s dogs were ultimately declared dangerous by the city; they are now required to be in a secure enclosure with a mechanical locking device.

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9 years ago

The really strange animal cruelty and animal death stories continue to pile up. I’d like you to take a look at this one where (it appears) some overly zealous PETA workers picked a family dog (from the owner’s porch) and then euthanized the dog two days later.

Here is a link to the story: ETA accused of snatching a pet dog from family’s front yard, driving it away and then KILLING it – before returning with a fruit basket to apologize

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