BELFAST (AP) – Belfast police have issued a summons to the owner of two dogs that attacked and killed three sheep and bit a cow.

Gerry Hendricks is charged with allowing dogs to run at large and keeping unlicensed dogs.

Detective Michael McFadden said the sheep, owned by Reynolds Ritchie, were killed Saturday and Sunday while in a field.

Another neighbor, Debbie Hustus, reported that two dogs entered her barn and bit her cow on the leg before she chased them away. Hustus told police that one dog appeared to be a pit bull and the other had Dalmatian-like markings.

McFadden said said the dogs normally are kept indoors but escaped while Hendricks was away for the weekend. The detective said Hendricks planned to apologize and discuss the dead sheep with the Ritchie family.