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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock IW* Staff Writer
Whoever said that the dog is man’s best friend never checked with the Rappahannock Supervisors after they’ve been presented with the bill for livestock killed by strays.
May’s price tag of $540 for ten animals was up substantially over the winter months. This annual jump in the number of livestock claims brought before the board by dog warden Jack Bruce has become as sure a sign of spring in Rappahannock County as apple blossoms or the first robin.
At last Tuesday’s board meeting, Bruce reported that Tom Lee had lost three lambs and a calf. Bruce said he’d seen the remains of two lambs—“a hide and a leg or two”—and another lamb lying up against a fence, dead
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