Dogs attack animals at DeLand Middle School FFA compound

FLORIDA -- A pack of wild dogs, described by witnesses as a golden retriever and at least two Rottweilers, somehow got into an animal pen at DeLand Middle School March 8 and killed a goat and her day-old baby.

The dogs also injured a number of other goats — four pregnant ones and two more in another pen, according to a DeLand police report.

A parent said three lambs also were attacked. The parent also said this was the third dog attack in six weeks.

The livestock — goats, lambs, hogs and cattle — are being bred and raised by students in the DeLand Middle School FFA program. Some animals are owned by students and their families, but others are raised collectively by the 125 students in the school chapter, said Carrie Owen, DeLand Middle’s agriculture instructor and FFA adviser.

A parent of one of the students set up a GoFundMe account to help raise money for the animals' care: http://www.gofundme.com/o9lcyg


(The DeLand-Deltona Beacon - March 12, 2015)