The McMinnville owner of four hybrid wolfdogs that escaped in March and killed three pets must give two of the animals up and sterilize the other two, a municipal court judge ruled last month.
McMinnville police cited Sandra Atwood, 41, on 22 counts, including dog running at large and dog as public nuisance, following the March 7 incident when her four dogs escaped her backyard. Two of them were caught relatively quickly, she has said, but the other two travelled more than a mile and are believed to be the ones that killed a pet dog and two pet cats.
The incident enraged a swath of McMinnville residents, not least because there had been complaints about Atwood’s dogs and property for years, and many wrote to the city council to voice their concerns…