A dog-killing Texas firefighter was booked on animal cruelty charges Wednesday after he allegedly gunned down a pair of pooches and uploaded a photo of their bloody corpses to Facebook.
Tim Conatser, 20, enraged animal lovers and was ousted from the Union Valley Fire Department after his gruesome post went viral.
“Somebody didn’t put any truth my warning,” the Royse City resident wrote in his swaggering caption. “Keep your damn dogs on your property.”
Conatser surrendered to authorities on Wednesday and was slapped with two felony charges, Hunt County Constable Terry Jones told NBC DFW.
He was held on $5,000 bond, court records show.
The owner of the dogs was stunned after learning on social media his pets had been slaughtered.
“I’m in shock,” Pulido Rodrigo told Fox 4 News. “ I don’t know. I don’t understand these people. Bad people.”
The volunteer fire department claimed it dumped Conatser from it’s roster after learning about the dog killings.
“Tim is no longer on our fire department,” Union Valley said in a Facebook post. “He did not get suspended with pay, and he will not get severance. Why? Because we’re ALL volunteer.”
The department is now trying to mine a silver lining from the ugly incident, using its newfound notoriety to promote a fundraiser for a little girl fighting leukemia.
“If you make one threat towards our department we simply ask that you donate at least one dollar to help Kaitlyn's family,” Union Valley asked its new band of followers. “That's not too much to ask.”
(New York Daily News - March 5, 2015)
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