TITLE  2
ANIMALS
CHAPTER 28
DOGS

25-2806.  LIABILITY FOR LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY KILLED BY DOGS.
The owner, possessor, or harborer of any dog or animal that kills, worries, or wounds
any livestock and poultry which are raised and kept in captivity for
domestic or commercial purposes, is liable to the owner of the same for the
damages and costs of suit, to be recovered before any court of competent
jurisdiction:
 1.  In the prosecution of actions under the provisions of this section it
is not necessary for the plaintiff to show that the owner, possessor, or
harborer of such dog or other animal had knowledge of the fact that such
dog or other animal would kill or wound livestock or poultry which are
raised and kept in captivity for domestic or commercial purposes.
 2.  Any person, on finding any dog, not on the premises of its owner or
possessor, worrying, wounding, or killing any livestock or poultry which
are raised and kept in captivity for domestic or commercial purposes, may,
at the time of so finding said dog, kill the same, and the owners thereof
can sustain no action for damages against any person so killing such dog.

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