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SunStar Davao
Friday, July 04, 2008
Vet: Dogs, not 'aswang', kill farm animals
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- The city veterinarian has dispelled claims that an "aswang" or a vampire was behind the killing last week of a number of farm animals here.
Citing initial investigations, City Veterinarian Dr. Eugene Gornez said dogs, not vampires, killed the three goats owned by Cielo Alonzo of Manongol village and a flock of 23 sheep in Sudapin village.
He used as basis the statements made by Sonny Camos, a village guard in Sudapin, who actually saw four dogs that feasted on the internal organs of the 23 sheep owned by the University of Southern Mindanao (USM).
Camos told Gornez that he even shot dead one of the four dogs.
He, however, failed to show as proof the body of the slain dog. Camos and his group had reportedly eaten the meat of the dog.
Gornez said it's too difficult to believe that an "aswang" still exists in this modern world.
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There is no proof yet of the existence of an aswang. I have not seen one," he said.
Gornez, after studying the markings of the bodies of the goats that they exhumed on Tuesday, has concluded that "only a dog is capable of doing such kind of attack."
Each goat has at least four puncture wounds on its neck.
"Dogs are carnivorous. They are into scavenging and predating," he said.
The killer dog can be a domesticated animal, which went "berserk" and wild after it escaped from the cage.
"Its wild instinct can never be lost even if the dog has been domesticated. Blood becomes so palatable or pleasant to a wild dog," he said. "This explains why there was no trace of blood in the crime scene."
Another possibility that Gornez cited was that the killers can be stray dogs left in the woods and had survived by scavenging and predating.
Gornez said people should not be scared.
"There is no aswang. All they have to do is coordinate with authorities to stop the killing of our farm animals. They must help locate the killer dogs," he said. (Malu Cadelina Manar)
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I thought it was convenient that the guy who claims it was a dog said he ate the evidence. Pulutang aso anyone?
On a personal note, I
have seen an aswang when I was living in the Philippines, but that’s another story for another time…
Ray
