Javelinas kill dog, injures woman and another dog in Arizona

TUCSON, Ariz. (KNXV) — Javelinas attacked a pistillate walking her 2 dogs successful the El Conquistador Golf edifice successful Oro Valley Sunday, the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGDF) reported.

The edifice is situated adjacent Tucson.

The chaotic animals killed 1 of the dogs successful the attack, portion the pistillate and the different canine were injured.

In a tweet, the AZGFD says javelinas instinctively spot dogs arsenic coyotes — their earthy predators — and volition onslaught if they spot one.

People who spot a javelina portion walking their dogs should spell the different way, AZGFD says.

Javelinas mostly measurement betwixt 35 to 60 pounds, according to AZGFD. Experts accidental they migrated to Arizona from South America.

This communicative was primitively reported by Sam Radwany connected ABC15.com.