Dog bite surge prompts enforcement campaign in Merced County

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – An summation successful canine bites and escaped dogs successful Merced County has prompted the sheriff's bureau to behaviour a stray/at-large canine enforcement campaign.

Deputies accidental their Animal Service Bureau has received a important summation successful calls related to stray oregon at-large dogs and canine bites successful the Beachwood and McSwain areas.

In response, Animal Services volition beryllium conducting a stray/ at-large canine enforcement run passim the country during April.

The sheriff's bureau asks that residents guarantee their dogs are decently secured, either wrong a fenced yard, wrong a kennel, oregon connected an approved dog-runner; tethering dogs to fixed objects specified arsenic doghouses, trees oregon fences is not allowed and is simply a transgression discourtesy successful California.

Deputies accidental owned dogs recovered escaped volition beryllium impounded astatine the Animal Services Bureau and their owners volition beryllium taxable to a fine. Owners tin besides beryllium fined for nonaccomplishment to licence and nonaccomplishment to vaccinate their dogs.