LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – A Heritage Creek man is living a nightmare, faced with yet another attack on his animals from the same two dogs that fatally injured his pony earlier this year.
You may remember Cookie, a miniature pony from a Troubleshooter exclusive story in January. Cookie was put down after being attacked by two dogs in the neighborhood.
Sunday morning, those dogs attacked again.
After Cookie’s death in January, the fate of the two dogs who attacked him was supposed to be decided in court. However, that case is still in limbo and the dogs are still in the neighborhood. Cookie’s owners feared what could happen if the dogs were to get out again and Sunday morning, those fears were confirmed.
“My animals are my kids, just like anything else,” Cookie’s owner Gerry Boston said. “In the system, people don’t understand that your animals are your kids.”
That system, Boston said, failed him and his animals.
This time, the victims were his miniature donkey and pony, Daisy and Cloey, which he purchased for his farm soon after Cookie’s death. They were attacked by the same two dogs that fatally injured Cookie just six months ago.
Boston tried his best to make sure another attack wouldn’t happen again, building a rock barrier and wrapping the bottom of the barn in barbed wire.
“I secured it. I spent a bunch of money to secure what I have to keep this from happening,” he explained. “And they got back in. They dug under, and they got ahold of my animals again.”
Like Cookie in January, Daisy and Cloey suffered lacerations to the legs and mouth, requiring surgery.
“Me and my wife are furious about the system,” Boston said. “You know, we tried to do our right thing to protect our animals, and the government, Metro, they’re not doing their right thing in court.”
A WAVE Troubleshooter investigation in January revealed a series of attacks from the pair of dogs at the Boston’s property. The dogs were impounded after the first attack on Cookie in November, but not the second. That is the one that killed Cookie.
Instead, Louisville Metro Animal Services (LMAS) left them with the owner with an order to keep the dogs in the house or muzzled. After the attack on Cloey and Daisy, neither dog was found with a muzzle.
Since January, the case has been caught up in the court system.
“It’s been in the court system now for a judge to determine if whether these dogs need to be euthanized,” Heritage Creek Police Chief Mark Keiser said. “It keeps getting bounced. Now it’s in August. In the interim, the owner of the dogs has been incarcerated in a penitentiary, so now his parents are the responsible party of these animals.”
After Sunday’s attacks, the parents signed off on the euthanasia. WAVE News confirmed that happened shortly after LMAS took the dogs from the Boston’s property.
Cloey and Daisy are still recovery at a vet clinic in Lexington, following several hours in surgery. The vet is optimistic they will be okay, but it will be a few days until they know for sure. Meanwhile, the Boston’s have already begun to accumulate a sizeable veterinarian bill, upwards of $6,000.
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