Sipekne’katik First Nation implementing dog population control program – CBC

Reserve plans to spay, neuter and find new homes for roaming dogs

In Indian Brook, stray dogs that roam, sometimes in packs, are a familiar sight around the Sipekne’katik First Nation.

For residents like Brittany Parker, a mother of two small children, they trigger a deep fear.

“I worry all the time [about] my kids getting attacked by a dog,” she said while playing with her three-year-old son on their front lawn.

It stems from an encounter last summer. Parker says she’d gone outside to feed her pet Rottweiler when an aggressive dog came out of nowhere.

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