Bull Mastiff Put Down Monday Morning

Moose, the bull mastiff who in early July, has been euthanized.

Kendall County Board member Anne Vickery, who is also chair of the Animal Control Committee, said she witnessed the dog being put to sleep Monday at about 9 a.m. at Countryside Veterinary Clinic in Yorkville. Moose’s new owners, who live in LaSalle County, willingly brought the dog to Kendall County on Monday morning for the procedure.

“It was very difficult,” Vickery said. “They were wonderful people and they had done a lot for the dog but it had to be done.”

County leaders began looking for Moose after Animal Control warden that he had been adopted - not euthanized shortly after the July 3 incident at the Animal Control shelter.

Moose bit a mail carrier in Boulder Hill on May 31 before he bit an Oswego boy who had accompanied his father to court-ordered community service work on July 3.

Moose was at Animal Control after charging after a mail carrier into the next yard and biting him in the right arm on May 31, police reports indicate.  The 47-year-old carrier received about 15 stitches.

In the July 3 incident, the 6-year-old boy suffered two puncture wounds about a half-inch across, according to the Kendall County Sheriff’s police report. Paramedics told police it appeared the dog’s tooth had entered the boy’s cheek about an inch below his eye and exited below that, the report stated.

Vickery said she had believed Moose had been euthanized until she learned otherwise at Friday's Animal Control committee meeting.

Johnson was placed on administrative leave with pay Friday. The county board is expected to make a decision on her status with the county at Tuesday's meeting. 

Editor's note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the mailman received about 50 stitches. Patch regrets the error.