Reply #27: My dog was tortured... [View All]

[Contrary1]

He and my other dog got loose one afternoon from our fenced in back yard. I had taken my mother for dialysis treatment. We were having our house sided, and when the workers left; they did not latch the gate.

When I was about a half mile from home, I found one of the dogs running down the middle of the street, Mikey was nowhere to be found. I drove around for a couple hours looking, but no luck.

About four hours later, he found his way back. He had a long length of a tweed belt around his neck. He seemed very tired, but otherwise ok. It was later that my daughter noticed the fur on his forehead moving when he exhaled.

We rushed him to an all night animal hospital. He had a puncture wound just above and between his eyes. So deep, that it had penetrated his sinus cavity. Head xrays also showed that he had been shot multiple times with a BB gun, or something similar. There were pellets behind his eyes, in the roof of his mouth, in his ears, and up his nostrils. The vet said that it would have taken two people to do that to him.

It was too risky to go after the pellets, but they were able to repair the sinus with some sort of plastic filler. He lived a few years after that, but was never the same.

I knocked on doors, and asked if anyone had seen anything. One man was so angered by what had happened to my dog, he offered to accompany me.

I believe that if I had found the scum bags that night, I would most likely be in prison now.