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Board upholds abatement order requiring owner to confine dogs after cattle attacks
Summary
After testimony from ranchers, animal-control staff and a USDA wildlife specialist, the Board of Supervisors modified and approved an abatement order requiring an owner to confine four dogs, complete identification and veterinary compliance and pay county holding and veterinary fees by a firm deadline.
The Lake County Board of Supervisors on an appeal hearing modified and affirmed an animal‑control abatement order after livestock on Lower Elk Mountain Road were found injured and killed by animals in late November and December.
County Animal Control and Public Services staff described a sequence of calls and evidence that led to the impoundment of four canines earlier in December. Public Services Director Greg Wilkins told the board that county staff received photos and reports from the Delbar family documenting injured and deceased cattle and that two of the four dogs had previously been impounded by county staff.
An owner, Courtney Palmer, who appealed the abatement order, denied that her dogs had caused the most severe damage and said two animals were puppies only months old. “If anyone can look at the pictures, you could clearly see that 4 k nines could not do that, tear the inside of a cow out,” Palmer told the board.
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