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RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY’S DOG Warden has a problem that his counterparts in neighboring Piedmont counties are not especially eager to share. Bears. The problem came up at the June meeting of Rappahannock’s Board of Supervisors, and the Supervisors were sympathetic with Dog Warden Jack Bruce’s problem. As Bruce explained it, a slain sheep he was called upon to investigate for a claim (the average dog claim for sheep is running around $20) exhibited all symptoms of not having been done in by dogs. “If I’ve ever seen a sheep killed by a bear, that was one,’’ Bruce reported. “A front leg was pulled off the body, and the body hadn’t even been dragged. And the lower jaw looked like it had been chopped off by an axe. No dog, no two or three dogs could have done that.” Commonwealth’s Attorney George H. Davis Jr. informed the Supervisors that there was no legal way they could sanction payment of a dog claim for bear damage. Supervisor Herbert Foster thought “the state ought to be liable for bear damage.” He recalled a similar situation with “some hogs some time ago at Sperryville.” CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Newbill Miller agreed, noting that the state actually protects bears, by setting up hunting seasons. And for all he knew, the federal government “stocked” them
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