A Cairn terrier that killed chickens and a cat will be allowed to move out of state, Chilmark selectmen agreed this week. After killing four hens, badly maiming another and killing a cat, the 12-pound terrier owned by Heather and Geordie Gude has taken refuge in a New York city home. The Gudes said the terrier will never return to the Island but, just in case, selectmen, on the recommendation of dog officer Chris Murphy, have ordered the dog to be euthanized should it ever return.

“From my point of view the dog killed some chickens, the dog killed a cat, but it went into somebody’s house to do that,” said Mr. Murphy at Tuesday’s selectmen’s meeting. “That was a pretty dramatic thing; it’s unlikely that the dog’s ever going to get over that and it’s more likely that it will kill something else very soon.”

West Tisbury animal control officer and Chimark assistant dog officer Joan Jenkinson owned the cat that was killed. She recalled the telephone call from her husband, Pat, describing the surprising attack.

“He saw a little Cairn terrier in the yard coming up from North Road so he thought she’d get run over, so he went into the mudroom to grab a leash for her and she ran into the house, and I mean flew in to the kitchen and the living room, grabbed my cat off his bed and broke his neck,” she recounted. “Pat went in there and went to leash the dog and he saw Buddy dead on the floor, it took two seconds. That was very traumatic. It took a year to earn the trust of that cat. It was a feral cat in the neighborhood . . . He was a great guy and I really miss him,” Mrs. Jenkinson said.

“We feel really awful about it,” said Mrs. Gude. “She obviously has a taste for killing chickens and we feel really bad [about the cat]. She’s never going to be back on the Island again.”

The hens belonged to Emily Bramhall of Chilmark; Mrs. Gude offered to pay for the loss.

After the meeting Mrs. Gude and Mrs. Jenkinson hugged.

Also on Tuesday selectman Warren Doty gave an update on the federal request for interest for wind developers in a nearly 3,000-square-mile area south of the Vineyard. On Monday Mr. Doty and representatives from the state fisheries work group met with federal regulators in New Bedford to delineate which areas were acceptable to the fishermen.

“Most of it is blocked out as unacceptable,” he said, citing impacts on the scallop, yellowtail flounder and lobster fisheries. “At the end of the meeting [New Bedford mayor] Scott Lang outlined about 30 blocks [out of more than 300] which he thought might be acceptable to the fishing community.” Mr. Doty and selectman Jonathan Mayhew said concerns about squid, fluke and winter flounder could make the narrow band of acceptable blocks on the grid even smaller.

“The federal office [administering the area] is called the BOEME [Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation And Enforcement],” said Mr. Doty. “I refer to it as bummer,” he added.

In other business selectmen extended the appointment of Paul (Zeke) Wilkins as temporary chief of the Tri-town Ambulance for 60 days as the organization continues its search process for a new chief. Aquinnah police chief Randhi Belain told selectmen that he took part in eight hours of interviews over the weekend and narrowed the field of eight candidates to three finalists: Brian Donaldson of Nebraska, Tim Morrissey of Connecticut and John Shannon of Vineyard Haven.