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into a pond. “It was impossible for me to get there for several hours. I knew the calf would wait ’cause he was floating in the pond,” Bruce added.
He said he had one of the two dogs identified by Eastham in custody. The other, according to Eastham, belongs to Byron and Mary Schumaker, Bruce said.
Eastham told the supervisors that he’d been out sowing seed when he saw the dogs chase the calf into the pond and then return to the homes of their owners. He added that he’d also lost other calves and suggested that the recently whelped litter of one of the dogs be destroyed before the puppies grew up to be livestock killers.
Supervisor H. B. Wood interjected that he’d expect a 240-pound calf to be able to swim out of a pond.
‘‘Not if he’s scared,” countered Margaret Eastham. “They get excited and water gets into their nose and lungs.” She added that her husband had been “very explicit” about who the dogs belonged to when the incident first occured. “We’ve seen the Schumaker’s dog on our property before,” Mrs. Eastham stated.
Character Witness Wood’s motion to reimburse Eastham $200 for the calf passed unanimously. | Byron Schumaker, however, { spoke in defense of his j family’s pet. Schumaker maintained ( that the evidence against his £ dog was circumstantial, that c
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