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Speaking to councilors, the birds’ owner estimated losses from the attack totaled more than $800. He had also received tickets for a dog “running at large” on April 22 and May 2, said Couture, the police lieutenant.Īt Monday’s hearing, police said Moose caused further damage the afternoon of May 8 when the dog entered a yard on Lake Street and killed 26 chickens and three ducks. Police said they issued Haskell multiple tickets for violating St. Police said they contacted Haskell after the incident and he told them Moose was able to escape the house because his daughter did not close the back door all the way. She also said it will be difficult to find a similar rabbit to replace him. The loss of Clifford will take a financial toll on her going forward, Hemond told councilors Monday, because Clifford was a parent to show rabbits that she sold to people across the country.

Hemond said Moose also injured two more of her rabbits on April 6, leaving those animals with wounds to the nose and feet. Moose also wasn’t licensed with the city, according to the police report. Police later asked Haskell if Moose was vaccinated for rabies, and the owner replied that he was, though he did not have paperwork on hand to prove it. “The dog finally took a deep breath and my neighbor was able to pull (Clifford’s) lifeless body from the dog's mouth,” Hemond said. Police said Hemond struggled with Moose to get Clifford out of the dog’s mouth, and in the process, one of his teeth grazed her hand, giving her a small puncture wound. Moose began running around the yard holding Clifford by the neck, Hemond said, then eventually ran into the street, where he was caught with help from a neighbor. Benjamin Couture said in an email, noting a date for the euthanization was not yet scheduled.Īccording to the police report and testimony at Monday’s hearing, on April 6 Moose entered the backyard of Trista Hemond on Walnut Street and pulled a red 12-pound rabbit, named Clifford, out of the rabbit’s cage through a gap in the cage door. Albans’ ordinances, councilors may order a pet to be “disposed of in a humane way” if it has attacked, threatened or injured a person or pet without provocation.Īs of Thursday afternoon, Moose had not been put down, St. VTDigger’s efforts to reach Haskell on Thursday were not successful. “This owner has failed this dog,” Ward 6 Alderperson Chad Spooner said. Albans police report as Benjamin Haskell, did not attend the council’s vicious dog hearing Monday.

Moose’s owner, who is identified in a St. Moose lived on Lake Street, police said, but had run unleashed multiple times in the past year on city roads. Albans City is set to euthanize a dog that officials say injured a woman’s hand and killed her prize rabbit, then killed nearly 30 chickens and ducks on a nearby property.Ĭity councilors voted unanimously on Monday night to have officials put down Moose, a mixed-breed rescue, in a “humane” manner.

Moose, the dog police say killed nearly 30 animals in St.