FRENCH CAMP-

A pack of wild dogs are allegedly wandering San Joaquin County and slaughtering hundreds of goats.

“It was a really horrific scene,” said Joe Mayer, manager of the Stockton Livestock Auction.

Mayer keeps a picture in his phone of what he can’t believe he had to see: 120 goats killed by a pack of pit bulls prowling the French Camp area.

“They were piled on top of each other in (the) corner of the pens as tall as I am, some of them still screaming trying to get away from the dogs. That’s where the dogs left them and they were not killing to eat them. They’re killing to kill them,” said Kim Stagno, who lives at the auction site.

A pack of seemingly wild pit bulls out roaming farm land; out for blood.

“I had a baby, 4-5 days old baby goat…dog ate the head,” said neighbor Subar Mani.

Mani says he got little help from animal control last week when 50 of his goats were killed, so he and some friends armed themselves.

“We sat till ten at night, they shot two, six got away,” said Mani.

Without other help, Mani believes those six moved to the auction’s goat pens Monday.

“We have kids around here, if they could kill that many goats, they could really do some harm to humans,” said Mayer.

“The Dogs are so dangerous. They’re like a murderer standing with a gun, so wild and mean,” said Mani.

Folks in French Camp say the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Department is the hero in all of this, setting traps to try and catch the rest of the dogs.