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A rabid dog terrorised Swaledale 150 years ago this week
From the Darlington & Stockton Times of January 14, 1871 SWALEDALE was terrorised by a rabid dog, which had started its rampage at Grinton, biting John Metcalfe’s cattle dogs. “It was met by a servant boy of Mrs Winter, innkeeper, who it bit through the boot toe, but not seriously,” said the D&S. At Reeth, it had a long fight with a dog owned by Mr Bell, of Halfway House, before biting Adam Barker’s spaniel at Healaugh. At Calvert Houses, it bit several sheepdogs before being cornered and despatched. “All the dogs which were bitten, and those also which were bitten by Mr Metcalfe’s dog, have been destroyed for fear of worse consequences,” concluded the report.