WOOD COUNTY (KYTX) -
Seven rare, prize-winning sheep died in a pit bull attack Tuesday after a dog got loose from what neighbors describe as a breeding operation next door. The owner of the sheep worries a person could be attacked next.
"I came down to feed them," Tejas Ranch owner Brent Neighbors said. "Nobody met me up here to eat their feed and I just started walking the pasture and seeing one after another dead."
Neighbors said the seven dead sheep were more than pets. They were his livelihood--because until Tuesday the rare Desert Painted Sheep were worth $500 to $1,000 each.
Out of the six that lived, one's face was mauled and another one can't walk on one leg. Tuesday night a sergeant with the sheriff's department came to take a report.
"We were turned around looking at some dead animals and we turned around and the dog was on this side of that tree right there, snarling and growling at us," Neighbors said. "And he shot it.
Seven rare, prize-winning sheep died in a pit bull attack Tuesday after a dog got loose from what neighbors describe as a breeding operation next door. The owner of the sheep worries a person could be attacked next.
"I came down to feed them," Tejas Ranch owner Brent Neighbors said. "Nobody met me up here to eat their feed and I just started walking the pasture and seeing one after another dead."
Neighbors said the seven dead sheep were more than pets. They were his livelihood--because until Tuesday the rare Desert Painted Sheep were worth $500 to $1,000 each.
Out of the six that lived, one's face was mauled and another one can't walk on one leg. Tuesday night a sergeant with the sheriff's department came to take a report.
"We were turned around looking at some dead animals and we turned around and the dog was on this side of that tree right there, snarling and growling at us," Neighbors said. "And he shot it.
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