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Payment of several sheep claims against the county dog tax fund ; was postponed by the Board of. Supervisors yesterday, pending fur-' ther evidence, after it appeared , that the sheep were killed by bears rather than dogs. The Board ac- j tion was taken upon the advice of Commonwealth Attorney, George H. Davis, Jr. that payment from the dog tax fund for bear damage was illegal. ,
Mr. Jack Bruce, County Dog Warden, stated to the Board that he did not know whether dogs j or bears were responsible for the loss of six sheep owned by Mr. Thomas Taylor and four owned by Mrs. Marguerite Youngman The Taylor and Youngman farms i are located above Sperryville on! Little Mountain between The Peak and Thomas Mountain near the Shenandoah National Park.
Mr. Bruce turtiier stated that “the sheep were attacked differently from anything I have ever seen by dogs. It1 just looked like the way a vet would open an animal to examine its organs.”
Tfie dead sheep were found on their backs clawed open from top to bottom or cut completely across the breast, according to Mr. Bruce. One was never found.
The Commonwealth Attorney, Davis stated that his investigation after the Board adjourned has convinced him t;he sheep were killed by bears; whose technique is to hold the victim with its teeth and rip with its claws. Whereas, a dog or mountain lion kill with their teeth and hold with their pa'tas. Accordingly, the injury done to the sheep by the bear is so obviously different from that done by a dog.
Mr. Davis discussed the matter with Park Ranger E. Field Benton! who stated that similar bear dam- i
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