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BY ALLISON FASHEK
afashek@nwitimes.com
219.662.5333 | Wednesday, February 01, 2006 | (No comments posted.)
CROWN POINT | The city and the owner of two dogs that attacked a mixed-breed dog last week came to an agreement Tuesday that will allow the animals to live, as long as it's outside of Crown Point.
City Judge Kent Jeffirs accepted an agreement for Therese Struven, of 1843 W. 99th Ave., to pay a $100 fine for each of the four counts related to the incident, which resulted in the death of a dog named Hooper, and two pending cases stemming from August citations.
Combined with $390 in legal fees, Struven will pay $990 in the next six months. She also must pay Smith Animal Clinic for keeping her dogs in quarantine.
Since the two dogs are considered dangerous animals under the city's municipal code for attacking an animal off of its owner's property, Struven has agreed to no longer keep them in Crown Point. She and her fiance, Timothy Reitan, planned to pick up the dogs Tuesday and take them to friends' homes out of state.
"I'm very glad the whole thing is over with," Struven said outside of court.
Struven and Reitan, who didn't want to see the animals euthanized, wrote a letter of appeal to the court last week offering to send the animals away to save their lives.
Police cited Struven last week with two counts of dogs running at large, two counts of dogs entering another person's property and one count of harboring a nonimmunized dog after Buddy and Junkyard jumped a neighbor's fence and attacked Hooper.
Susan Wright said her daughter Heather Wright had to have 4-year-old Hooper put to sleep because of the extent of his injuries, including bites to the neck.
Struven later said she had an electric fence installed around her yard after the dogs got loose in August. But her children took off the dogs' collars Wednesday and let them out.
The Wrights could not be reached for comment.
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