The man, 47-year-old William Meek, told his girlfriend he would take the dog to the city animal shelter in Sacramento after it reportedly bit a woman in a home where his girlfriend was staying, KXTV-TV reported on Sunday.
“Which is obviously not true,” Gina Knepp, Sacramento city animal care manager, told the Sacramento Bee. “We do not believe he came to the shelter.”
The dog was found floating in the American River on June 17 near Sacramento’s River Park neighborhood, its leash still tied to a bowling bag that contained a bowling ball and a large rock. A microchip identified the dog as a 12-year-old border collie named Zelda.
Knepp told KTVU-TV an autopsy showed it died from drowning and suffered neck trauma from the struggle.
According to Sacramento police, Meek is wanted for malicious maiming of an animal, which is a felony.
Knepp said police were prepared to arrest him Friday morning when he arrived at the Sacramento County Courthouse for a hearing on an unrelated charge, but he never showed.
“The dog was alive when it entered the river,” Knepp told the Sacramento Bee. “It’s a terrible case.”
Earlier this month, 60-year-old Robert Prichard of Dallas was sentenced to 6-1/2 years behind bars for hitting his pit bull in the head with a shovel and drowning it in a pool.
(Washington Post - Sept 28, 2014)
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