A special meeting of the Paullina Council was held Thursday July 6. The agenda was to determine of two dogs are viscous as defined by city ordinance and what should come of them if they are.
Abby Hansen was present for the meeting along with the owner of the dogs, Anthony
Hansen recounted how she and her family were in Alton visiting family when they received a call telling them their chickens were being killed by dogs. Hansen described the set up in her yard for their chickens and including that her own dogs have killed her chickens. “That’s what dogs do. We changed because you can’t change dogs,” she said. She estimated 10 chickens were killed. She described the 40-48 inch fencing and the secure enclosured housing for the younger chickens to keep her dogs out.
Anthony commented that he wished this could have been handled more “neighborly.” She retorted that the same dogs had previously killed bunnies the family was raising.
A police report had been made. PIctures of the crime scene showing the fencing and the enclosure where the chickens were kept had been damaged.
There was some discussion of the kennel the dogs were kept in, but no pictures were taken or at least not provided at the appeal on Thursday. Anthony stated that he believes his dogs were let out. Anthony, gesturing to Police Chief Nate Bremer, “You said they couldn’t get out of that.” Bremer corrected him saying, “I said it would be hard for them to get out.” Anthony also said that he had built a kennel for his dogs that they had not gotten out of for a couple months, but I got a letter from the city telling me I had to take it down.”
It was decided that the city would issue an order on Monday July 10 that he had 3 days to rehome the dogs. If they were still there, Bremer would seize the dogs. They would be kept at the Animal Medical Hospital in Hartley for up to 7 days. They could be released during that time to a different owner or they would be destroyed. The costs will be imposed on Anthony.