A UTAH dog owner is facing nearly 30 misdemeanor charges after her 4-year-old husky was caught on video carrying out an animal killing spree in one of her neighbor’s yards.

Surveillance footage taken by Tooele homeowner Trip Kiss — who with his wife runs a petting zoo for children with disabilities — shows Mackenzie Morton’s dog, Nikita, running amok in the early morning hours of last Tuesday.

“He was chewing our goose that was at the back end there, he dug out the rabbits in their enclosure,” Kiss told Fox 13, noting that the animal had managed to kill “two rabbits, two ducks, five chickens, a turkey, [and] a goose” before leaving the property.

Kiss said at one point he spotted the dog – who scattered the dead animals in a two-block radius around his home — with one of his chickens in its jaws.

“The dog continued to chew on it, and it died in the dog’s mouth, and he dropped it,” Kiss said.

Police managed to capture the dog hours later. Police told Fox 13 that “a second lady from a couple houses down came and told the officers that 15 of her chickens had also been killed by the same animal.”

Morton apologized and claimed the dog has never acted like that before. She intends to pay around US$1,350 in damages. Nikita, meanwhile, is quarantined at a local animal shelter, waiting for his fate to be decided at a hearing.

(SD-Agencies)