With Musk Oxen Attacks Seemingly on Rise, One Nome Pet Owner Calls For More Action
!["Three Wet Muskox." Photo: Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, taken July 16, 2012.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/7584216266_604c8018d9_o.jpg)
Vickie Erickson says that, over the last few years, she has lost four dogs to musk ox attacks. During Erickson’s latest encounter with musk oxen on October 3rd, her family dog for six years, Bart, was killed.