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Going to the Dogs
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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Newi SUIT Writ*r | i Joy Sloane asked the Board of Supervisors to protect people walking . on the county’s roads from dogs at last Wednesday’s meeting.
Mrs. Sloane was attacked by two dogs Thursday September 1 when she yas walking on( Route 612 in Old Hollow. She said she had decided to start a walking program and she took a walking stick her daughter had given her for a Christmas present. She said that the dogs “came shooting from the house and hillside and attacked me. One went for my face, and I used the stick to keep it away. The other bit me above the knee, and the dog that had gone for my face bit me on the leg from the back.” An elderly neighbor heard her screaming and came out and yelled at the dogs and they ran back into a field, she said. She walked to that neighbor’s house and called her husband and dog warden Johnny Ray Pullen.
She said when Mr. Pullen came the dogs acted aggressive towards him also. Mrs. Sloane said Mr. Pullen and Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke were very nice, but “They can only use the ordinances you give them.” The vicious dog ordinance can only be used after someone is attacked, she said. She said if she had been a child, she would have been bitten on the face. 11
Noting that the county relies on tourism, she said, “Nobody’s going to visit the dog bite capital of the world.”
She suggested the county needs a leash law or at least an ordinance that would prohibit unleashed dogs on the county’s roads.
She said there had been several incidents in Old Hollow of dogs harassing and attacking people. “I’m asking for a safe passage ordinance,” she said. The current vicious dog ordinance does nothing until a dog bites someone or harms them, she said.
Mr. Luke agreed that under the current county ordinance the dog “gets the first bite.” He said that once there is an incident like happened to Mrs. Sloane, the owners are notified and must keep the dogs enclosed or chaujed. He said that Mr. Pullen has checked on the two dogs involved in the attack on Mrs. Sloane and the dogs are being kept in the house or on chains. Mrs. Sloane said her neighbor has seen them back on the road.
Under the county’s vicious and destructive dog ordinance, it is a class 1 misdemeanor for the owner of a vicious dog to allow it to run at large once he has been notified “in writing, of a dog’s vicious or destructive tendencies.”
The supervisors took no action on Mrs. Sloane’s request.
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