In January, the Rainelle Police Department responded to Cadle’s Sixth Street home after a neighbor reported his boxer was so emaciated it could barely stand, he said.
[WVVA described the dog as being a bulldog.]
Stevens said the dog was so starved its belly had ballooned in the final stages of starvation and it was shaking uncontrollably.
Chief Stevens said, "It should have probably been a 45-pound dog. And it weighed almost 15 when we got it. It probably wouldn't have survived another night if we hadn't have gotten it."
The boxer was taken to the vet then sent to the Greenbrier Country Humane Society animal shelter where it has gained a nearly normal weight.
Stevens said Cadle confessed to locking the sick dog up for several weeks and not getting it medical treatment.
Cadle has been charged with cruelty to animals, failure to vaccinate against rabies, failure to register a dog, providing false information to a police officer and violating the leash law.
[WVVA says he gave the police a fake name]
Stevens said Cadle is now out on $2,500 bond.
(register-herald.com - February 15, 2013)
