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Town concerned about Podzadny's dogs again by Ian Elliot
INUVIK (Feb 13/98) - Town council is concerned that Horst Podzadny has begun collecting dogs again.
Responding to the concerns of at least one councillor, the town is going to
send in its bylaw officer to inspect Podzadny's property and destroy
animals if there are more than the three he is allowed to own.
Just before Christmas the town had to shoot 79 dogs on the
property, many of them inbred and unhealthy. Podzadny claimed that 15 of
his dogs had starved to death this winter, and 30 had died the year before,
and at one point appealed to the public for dog food.
A town bylaw says a person can only own three dogs unless he or she
is a musher, and none of the mushers in town will support Podzadny's claim
that he is breeding a team.
Three dogs were neutered and left at the property, but since
returning from a 30-day psychiatric assessment in Edmonton after an
outburst at an assault trial in December, rumors have been circulating
through town that Podzadny had begun collecting dogs again.
"I hear he's got six or seven dogs out there now," said Mayor
George Roach, only to have a staffer say the number she heard was more like
eight or nine.
Councillors were obviously reluctant to let the problem return to
what it was before, and urged a speedy inspection of the property. |