'Dangerous' Dog Gets Shipped to Utah Saturday

A long-fought battle to retain custody of a family pet will officially end Saturday, when Gary and Susan Kolb send their remaining African Boerboel to a shelter in Utah.

The Kolb family agreed in March to give up Imani, the remaining 100-lb. dog of the two they originally had. Jumba, the family’s other pet dog, died of cancer in a shelter in January.

Imani will be crated and put on a plane Saturday and flown to a Utah facility where she will remain for the rest of her existence, according to nj.com.

Gary and Susan Kolb were forced to give up their dogs after Jefferson Police found one of them without a muzzle on an early morning walk, despite a court order to always be bound when in public. Jumba and Imani have been in a shelter since Oct. 2011.

The court order came as a result of the dogs knocking over a woman in Jersey City in 2008, which was followed by two incidents of biting on two different people.

Jefferson Township also expects the Kolbs to pay about $10,000 to the town for the sheltering and feeding of the dogs, nj.com reported.