Two dangerous dogs that got loose in Traverse City last week were found nearly 30 miles away from their home.
9&10 News first told you about these dogs last Friday after they killed another dog.
The police say the Siberian Husky and Chow Lab-mix got loose from their home on Grant Street in Traverse City.
Last night, they were found nearly 30 miles away at a home on Coster Road in Kalkaska County.
Police started searching for the dogs after they got loose last week and killed a Shih Tzu.
They said they weren’t a danger to people, but other animals.
9&10’s Caroline Powers and photojournalist John Harrington continue our coverage with the family that found the dogs.
‘To have the dog come in here like that, it just hurts so bad. What a massacre it must have been,” says Daniel Faber.
Two dogs with a history of killing other animals, on the loose for nearly a week.
Traverse City police were on the lookout, but when they attacked again, they went after ducks and chicken, captive victims at the Faber house miles away.
“I work nights, my wife works days and there’s about a four hour window of opportunity for something to happen out here,” Daniel Faber says. “It just so happens that these dogs decided to make our house their next romping, stomping day.”
When the homeowners left yesterday afternoon the six chickens were secure in their pen and the two ducks were in the pond in the back, but when they came home later in the evening, the dogs had made their way inside the fence and feathers were everywhere.
“Just jumped the fence. One I think made it out because one was outside and then the one duck was out here. They probably carried the duck for a while,” Faber says.
The Kalkaska County Sheriff’s Office is still investigating how the dogs made it all the way from Traverse City to Springfield Township.
“That’s what gets me. How did you make it this far. That’s a long ways,” says Faber.
Now the dogs are locked up at Kalkaska County Animal Control, but that won’t bring back the Faber’s beloved feathered friends.
“Just raised. Just got them out of the house, I think they’ve been in the pond for two weeks. There was pepper, Belinda and Goldy,” Faber says. “They all had names and we raised them from chickens. The little chicks. We had them in our hands in the house watching TV and petting them. They were family.”
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