MARYLAND -- A Washington County board ruled Thursday night that two pit bulls were vicious and dangerous following a hearing in which a man from the Broadfording Road area testified how his dogs had been attacked.
Jeff Crampton said one of his dogs had to be euthanized due to its wounds.
As part of its ruling, the five-member Washington County Animal Control Authority said the pit bulls could be returned to owners Justin Conrad and Amanda Collis of Broadfording Road.
But the dogs will have to be kept in a confined area, and if they are taken out of a confined area, they must me muzzled and on a leash, said Evelyn Garrett of the Humane Society of Washington County.
Before they can reclaim the dogs, which are currently being kept by the humane society, Conrad and Collis will have to pay an impoundment fee of $25 per dog and a $20 fee for every day the dogs have been impounded, Garrett said.
(Herald Mail - February 16, 2012)
