A dog that attacked and killed four of the six chickens belonging to Waikawa Beach resident Adrienne Powell, came back to finish the job.
Three weeks after the first attack, the dog returned last weekend and killed the remaining chickens.
Mrs Powell had no idea her anguish was to continue as she did everything she could in the meantime to ensure her remaining two pets would be kept safe. It was early on Sunday morning after Mrs Powell fed her chickens, making sure the door to the chicken run was secured, that the dog returned.
"My husband John went out an hour later to feed the wild birds and he saw a dog in our chicken coop. He ran inside to call the dog pound but when he came out the dog was gone and with him our last two hens."
The dog control officer later found the dog and took it to the pound.