Dogs who like the taste of chicken

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a pair of complaints Thursday about dogs with a taste for fowl.

At 11:44 a.m., a Moonlight Trail resident reported the neighbor’s dog was killing the resident’s chickens.

At 2:37 p.m., an Olney Loop resident reported he returned home to find most of his chickens dead and a dog with one of his chickens in its mouth. The man said he hit the dog with some buckshot and it took off. The dog’s owner was willing to pay for the chickens and to take more care to keep the dog on his property.

A man reported that another motorist forced him onto the median and nearly head-on into a vehicle traveling the other direction. The man said he tried to ask the other motorist what the problem was and “offered to beat him up,” but the driver did not respond.

A resident of Montana 35 in Bigfork caught his neighbor trying to break into his home. The man said he was sitting in the apartment when he saw the neighbor trying to take the screen off his window. He confronted the neighbor and asked him to leave.

A man was arrested after beating up a woman on Hungry Horse Boulevard, stomping on her face and side.

A Twin Bridges Road man reported he paid another man $8,000 to remodel his kitchen and that the man never completed the work. He said he knew of other people defrauded by the man.

A dispatcher reported that a man who said he accidentally dialed 911 while trying to program his phone “sounded legit.”

A flustered fiance reported his soon-to-be wife was sexually groped by an employee at a Third Avenue East business.

Banners were destroyed at fire halls in Somers and Lakeside on back-to-back evenings.

People were reported shooting firearms from two vehicles on Star Meadows Road.

A Kalispell boy was arrested for violating his probation after his mother advised deputies of his whereabouts.

A Columbia Falls Stage Road resident complained about an ongoing problem caused by a small “ankle biter” of a dog that barks a lot.

Kalispell Police officers were unable to locate a Rottweiler that bit another dog at the park and then chased a man back up the hill after he used pepper spray on the dog. A postal worker also reported the dog bit a small boy.

A man reported for trying to break into a trailer on U.S. 93 South while holding a revolver was found not to be trying to burglarize the trailer, just trying to get out of the cold.

A Sherry Lane resident complained about several youths in the park having a paintball gun fight, because in the past someone had shot her dog with several purple paintballs. A responding officer found about six youths who were shooting at one another with pellet guns, and advised them not to do so in the park.

A pair of no-nonsense dads brought in a group of four drunken youths, including their own children, to the police department.

A burglar was thwarted when he was caught trying to break into a pair of 10th Avenue West apartments.

A concerned person reported a 15-year-old boy was sexting a 13-year-old girl.

An arguing boyfriend and girlfriend were separated and a passerby counseled on the proper use of 911 after the passerby called the emergency line when the passing feud drew her in as well.

A man was transported to the hospital for a mental health evaluation after assaulting his father’s wife on Liberty Street.

A group of adults filming their friends doing tricks were advised of park rules.

A group of youths were reported throwing rocks at cars on Liberty Street.

A motorist was reported to the Whitefish Police Department after nearly hitting several flaggers in a construction zone on U.S. 93, as witnessed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

A drunken pedestrian was counseled and sent home after harassing people downtown.

A Wisconsin Avenue resident reported a stray cat wandered into the yard, looking like something had chewed on its leg.

A River Lakes Drive woman reported she was followed home by a man in a red car.

A Fourth Avenue West man contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department to report a drunken man known to smoke cocaine and mushrooms and believed to sell marijuana just showed up at his home and knocked over several items.

The clerk at a Nucleus Avenue store asked for an officer to respond while she locked up. A trio of teenage boys who were in the store acting oddly were now standing in a parking lot across the street as she closed the store, she said.