Fine for dog owner over livestock worrying in Caithness village

A man whose dogs worried livestock has been fined £400.

Christopher Page (53) was also ordered to pay the owners compensation of £100 and £150, respectively.

Wick Sheriff Court heard last week that two of Page's dogs, a husky and a German Shepherd, attacked a pigmy goat at Little Croft, Scarfskerry, on September 17, 2021, and one of them bit it.

In a further attack, on February 5, last year, another two dogs belonging to the accused, an Alsatian and an Akita-cross, chased sheep at Rattar Mains, Scrarfskerry and a ewe was bitten and fatally

wounded.

Solicitor Sylvia Maclennan said that Page, of Bronx Cottage, Scarfskerry, had strengthened his fencing to ensure there would be no further incidents and that financial and personal matters in his life had settled down since his initial appearance in court in December last year.