Taipei County officials yesterday said stray dogs could have been responsible for the deaths of dozens of goats in Linkou Township (
Animal experts used a cage baited with cooked chicken yesterday to catch a white dog near a farm.
Farm owner Huang Jung-ko (
PHOTO: HO YU-HUA, TAIPEI TIMES
"I arrived at the farm at 4am in my car. I blew my horn as a warning and immediately saw a black dog running away from the pen. When I went inside, I saw another black dog attacking my goats and I used a sickle to scare it off," Huang told reporters yesterday.
He said 14 goats were killed and seven injured in the attack.
In an attack on Friday, eight goats were killed and another two devoured, with only parts of their skeletons and some organs left.
PHOTO: LO PEI-DER, TAIPEI TIMES
Altogether, Huang has lost 24 of his 100 goats.
County police received a report on Friday from Huang, who said that earlier that day some of his goats had been mauled to death by "some large feline."
An Indonesian woman working at a farm who told police she had witnessed the attack said she had just entered a goat pen to feed the animals when "a big animal" roared at her, whereupon she fell down the stairs.
Police said yesterday that the woman was in the country illegally and would soon be deported. Her employer will be fined, they said.
Fridays' incident triggered a wide search in a mountainous area of Linkou for the mysterious killer.
"Stray dogs -- not a large feline -- could have been responsible for the killings," director of the Taipei County Government's Animal Disease Control Center Tsai Tsung-yi (蔡宗益) told reporters yesterday.
He said three dogs -- a white one and two black ones -- were suspected of having attacked goats.
Tsai said county authorities would soon launch a campaign to catch stray dogs in the area to ensure the security of residents.
On Saturday morning, Taipei County Commissioner Chou Hsi-wei (周錫瑋) led police officers and animal experts on a search in the mountainous area around the farm.
County officials said they hoped to catch the animal(s) alive and were equipped with a cage, tranquillizer guns and blowpipes.
Nearby residents told reporters they would not venture outside their houses until the authorities had captured the creatures responsible for the attacks.
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