Rowan County authorities charged Faith Goss with misdemeanor cruelty to animals because she deprived the dog of "necessary sustenance," according to the arrest warrant.
Basically, they're saying after the dog was stabbed repeatedly by Phillip Shoemaker, she never bothered to take the poor dog to the vet. She just left it lying there at her house.
A witness told a deputy she watched Phillip Shoemaker hold the dog down with his knees, while stabbing it in the stomach and neck. Deputies found the dog inside the home of the witness. It had several puncture wounds to its stomach and several stab wounds to the neck.
Goss' trial date is set for February.
Shoemaker was arrested at the scene and charged with felony cruelty to animals. He was placed in the Rowan County Detention Center under a $5,000 bond.
Jamie Stivers, a vet tech at Rowan County Animal Care and Control, said, “I think it’s absolutely horrible. I can’t imagine a poor, little, tiny, 20 pound dog being treated the way that he was.”
When deputies arrested Phillip Shoemaker, they say his jeans were blood-soaked. Investigators say those are the same jeans he was wearing when he allegedly stabbed young Buddy with a knife.
Animal Care and Control says Buddy had a total of three stab wounds to his neck and chest.
Stivers said, “It’s just unimaginable. You think, 'How can anybody do anything like that to a poor, little defenseless puppy.”
(Fox 46 Charlotte - Dec 16, 2015)
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