(LaPorte County, IN) – A pair of chicken killing dogs were rounded up this week by animal control.

La Porte County Police were called about 11 a.m. Monday to the 51 hundred block of W. 150 North.

Officers found two dogs inside a chicken coop surrounded by 15 dead chickens, police said.

Police said it appears the dogs chewed on the main door of the coop to get inside.

The chickens used for eggs were valued at $20 apiece.

The next day, the owner reclaimed his dogs from the La Porte County Small Animal Shelter.

Shelter Director Jane Bernard says dogs do things like that from time to time.

It’s just their instinct

Bernard says what happened is unfortunate but hopes both sides agree to compensating the owner for her chickens.

She says the animal shelter has rounded up other dogs for similar acts quite often in the past.