Therapy Dog Beheaded, Family Devastated

Mar 17, 2007 at 12:46 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 8

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Therapy Dog Beheaded, Family Devastated

Lisa Kiava Reporting

(WCCO) A St. Paul family is both heartbroken and terrified tonight after their dog was killed.

St. Paul Police say someone cut off the dog's head and wrapped it in a box for the family to find.

The case is especially devastating because the Australian Shepherd was a special therapy dog owned by a 17-year-old girl.

"Nobody had seen the dog," said Bobbi Brown, mother of the dog's owner.

The family hung up missing posters throughout their St. Paul neighborhood. They frantically searched for their beloved pet, Chevy.

"When she got the package, that's how we found out," said Bobbi.

Left at the steps, a package in Christmas wrapping paper, addressed to 17-year-old Crystal Brown. She opened it.

"She was just hysterical. She was screaming, she said 'Grandma, it's my dog's head.' I said no it can't be... and it was the dog's head," said Shirley Brown, Crystal's Grandmother.

"I had to ask my grandma five different times, 'Is that my dog?'" said Crystal. "I didn't believe her."

Bobbi still sobs, recalling that day two weeks ago.

"They had the box outside on the stairs and his head was in there," she said.

The family said they were disappointed with how St. Paul police responded. They said officers didn't collect evidence, but told them to throw everything away. They also accuse two officers of laughing.

"And to sit and laugh and the dog's head is right in front of you at your feet ... give me a break ... so I reported them the next day," said Shirley.

A spokesman for St. Paul Police said he can't talk about the initial officers' response because that's an internal investigation now.

Crystal has a new therapy dog, a gift from her grandmother, but only an arrest will ease the family's mind.

"That is so cruel," said Bobbi. "I miss him."

The dog's body was discovered in a park. The family believes the suspect is someone they know.

St. Paul Homicide officers are investigating the case now, not because the dog was killed but because they consider what happened a high-level threat against the family.



I'm lost for words here guys, I can't imagine someone who's that sick & twisted to decapitate a dog's head and sent it to the owner. If that's happen to me, I'm sure I will do something illegal if I ever found the person who did it to my dogs. I'm also can't believe how those initial handling by the police. They better chewed those laughing officers out in their office.
 
Mar 17, 2007 at 1:32 AM Post #5 of 8
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Originally Posted by ken36 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I don't this this is appropriate. Why do you feel a need to share tragedy with your fellow head-fiers? Let it go.


Why do you feel the need to ignore, and be apathetic about, tragedy?
 
Mar 17, 2007 at 1:34 AM Post #6 of 8
I don't think he's ignoring. I'm sure deep-down he personally feels bad about it. He's rebelling against these types of threads on these kinds of forums (and I don't endorse his opinion by writing this).
 
Mar 17, 2007 at 1:35 AM Post #7 of 8
Bad things happen every day. Some people are just screwed in the head and don't deserve to live.
 
Mar 17, 2007 at 2:17 AM Post #8 of 8
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Originally Posted by RYCeT /img/forum/go_quote.gif
If that's happen to me, I'm sure I will do something illegal if I ever found the person who did it to my dogs.


I don't want to even consider that. Animal cruelty is, to me, one of the lowest forms of violence and there are precious few circumstances that would give rise to a more violent reaction than the murder of my pet.

I am sick to death over this, and wish for the safety of the family. It's clear that some demented criminal has their sights on one - or all - of the family as well. More disturbing still is the (increasingly commonplace) apathy and insensitivity of the police.

I said it in the thread that detailed the robbery and beating of a 101 year-old woman: This is a circumstance best left to a vigilante.
 

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