Australia: "I don't want to breed shame," says woman who refuses to say it was a you-know-what that tore apart her Jack Russell.

AUSTRALIA -- Although this article is from August 2017, I just stumbled on the horrific photos of her poor Jack Russell Terrier. 

While searching through the article to see what kind of dog did this -- although by the photos I was fairly certain it was going to be a Pit Bull, I saw halfway down that the owner Vanessa Moore REFUSED TO SAY IT WAS A PIT BULL THAT NEARLY KILLED HER DOG. 

While asking for your money to pay the vet bill, Vanessa says she didn't want to "breed shame" so she refuses to disclose that it's a Pit Bull. 

How do I know it was a Pit Bull? Because only PIT BULL APOLOGISTS REFER TO 'BREED SHAMING', 'BREED RACISM', etc. 

After a German Shepherd or Husky attacks another animal, I've never seen anyone post about "breed shaming" or demanding we "blame the deed and not the breed" in reference to German Shepherds and Siberian Huskies. IT IS ONLY PIT BULL APOLOGISTS WHO SAY THIS CRAP.

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Nightmares of almost losing her seven-year-old jack russell terrier in a dog attack are haunting a former Boyne Island woman.

Vanessa Moore's seven-year-old dog Bart was the victim of a dog attack which almost killed him.

His pectoral muscle was "ripped out", he had deep cuts under his front right leg and was covered with bite marks across his leg, shoulder and neck.

Still struggling with the emotional and financial turmoil caused by the attack, the Boyne Island resident of 24 years wants to raise awareness about responsible pet ownership.

The story is a reality for many Gladstone residents too, with 216 dog attacks reported to the Gladstone Regional Council in the 12 months to July 31, 2017.

REFUSES TO SAY IT WAS A PIT BULL

While the Brisbane resident did not want to "dog breed shame", she said her small pooch never stood a chance.

"I was walking him and his sister on a lead and the dog that attacked was stalking from behind," she said.

"It came up and sniffed him and within two to three seconds it was all over. Bart was on his back, he didn't stand a chance, he just went into shock.

"I could just hear him crying and yelping, I have been having nightmares about it, it was very, very traumatic."

Nearby residents ran to his rescue, kicking the attacking dog in the ribs to release his stranglehold on Bart.

Now 20 days since the attack, Ms Moore says she's lost count of the vet and animal hospital visits for his ongoing recovery, which has also cost more than $8000 so far.

Bart is in a cast, needs regular veterinary check ups and could require skin graft surgery.

She said doctors could not tell her how long his recovery would take.

"Through it all I am very thankful for Bart to still be here, it could have been a very different story," Ms Moore said. "It has traumatised us both."

Ms Moore said her family members, who still lived in Gladstone, were equally shattered by the attack.

A Go Fund Me page set up for the dog's recovery has raised more than $5000 and Ms Moore said if the donations were in excess of Bart's bills, the difference would be donated to Australian Animal Cancer Foundation.

She said as a full-time university student studying youth work she was ineligible for financial support.

(Gladstone Observer - August 10, 2017)

(August 2017) California: Basset Hound's tail mangled when its pulled through fence by attacking Pit Bull

CALIFORNIA -- Lynch was recently attacked by a pit bull on his tail, and was being pulled through a fence.

He was seen at Bakersfield Veterinary Hospital and is missing a chuck of his tail. He was sedated and bandaged, and given antibiotics and pain meds.

 

Because of the amount missing on his tail, he will need to be seen every 2 days to be sedated and re-bandaged for the next 2-6 weeks, hopefully shorter if the wound heals properly. If not, there is a chance for amputation of his tail, but we are hoping it doesn't come to that.

Due to needing to be sedated because of the sensitivity of his tail and the pain, and needing to be re-bandaged every 2 days until further notice, it comes out to roughly $100 each visit, $65 for sedation and $31 to re-bandage and that can add up.

Any and every donation will be greatly appreciated. Our baby is just 5 years old and he has a lot of life still in him, we just want him to get better as soon as he can.

 

Vet Info:
Bakersfield Veterinary Hospital
8610 Harris Rd.
Bakersfield, Ca 93311

Update #1
Posted on August 24, 2017

Lynch was seen this evening around 8pm, and when he got his bandage change we were told his skin still appears to be pink and that it is a good sign! We're staying positive and hoping for the best so that amputation isn't necessary.

We can't thank everyone enough for their support and love sent to Lynch during his recovery, we are so thankful for everyone who is helping us along the way.

 

Update #2
Posted on August 26, 2017

Lynch had bandage change #2 this afternoon, and so far so good! Skin around wound is still pink which means antibiotics seem to be helping and it means signs of life in the tissues. Still hoping for the best!

YouCaring: Help With Lynch's Medical Expenses
For: Lynch
Bakersfield, CA
Organizer: Victoria Palafox
$620 of $1,200 goal raised by 17 donors

 

 

 

 

(August 2017) New York: "Pit bulls are just killing machines. They’re not animals."

NEW YORK -- A man was bitten by a "vicious" pit bull during a drug-related fight in the Biltmore, a swanky West 47th Street apartment building, Friday morning, sources said.

The 27-year-old man, who was bleeding from gashes on his arms as he was wheeled out on a stretcher, was attacked on the ninth floor of the luxury building at 271 W. 47th St., near Eighth Avenue, about 9 a.m.

"There was so much chaos. Cops were running around. I just heard a blood-curdling scream. It was really high-pitched. It went on for maybe two minutes. I heard it coming down the elevator. It was really, really loud," said Benjamin Stueben, 37, who lives in the building.

The victim had been fighting over an unspecified drug issue with another man, 34, who had been restraining the dog by holding it between his legs, an NYPD spokeswoman said.

"The guys were fighting in the hallway. One guy had the dog and he was telling the dog to attack. He was saying, 'Sic him! Sic him!'" said Shawn Ulibarri, 50, who lives on the ninth floor and watched the fracas through his peephole.

"The dog attacked the guy. He was growling and shaking his head back and forth. The guy getting attacked screamed, 'Call the police! Call the police!'"

Both men, whose names weren't immediately released, face criminal charges, the spokesman said.

Both were treated at Bellevue Hospital where they're listed in stable condition, an FDNY spokesman said.

The dog was barking as it was wheeled out in a covered crate.

Sources described it as "a good-sized dog, very vicious."

"We had to dart him. Then we noosed him," an Emergency Services Unit officer at the scene said.

It wasn't immediately clear if either man lived in the building.

A woman who picked up the phone at the Biltmore hung up on a reporter asking about the incident. Management didn't immediately respond to email.

Actor Amanda Bynes was famously ousted from her apartment at the Biltmore, where two bedrooms can go for nearly $6,000 a month, after a stint of bad behavior including hurling a bong from her window and smoking weed in the lobby.

Neighbors were, understandably, shook up.

“The police told us to stay in our apartments. I didn’t know if it was a hostage situation or a bomb threat.”

The woman said she has noticed the pit bull before the mauling.

“He’s aggressive,” she said. “When he’s waiting for the elevator, I go back in my apartment.”

Gilles Grenier, 58, has lived in the apartment building for 14 years. “I remember hearing loud screams,” Grenier said.

“I reported that dog when they moved in. Pit bulls are just killing machines. They’re not animals. They need to be muzzled.”

(DNA Info - August 28, 2017)

(August 2017) New Hampshire: Keni-Lynn Mone re-arrested in Rochester trash-filled home case

NEW HAMPSHIRE -- As the child endangerment case involving a trash-filled Rochester home gets closer to trial, authorities have arrested the resident for a second time in order for prosecutors to seek harsher misdemeanor penalties.

Keni-Lynn Mone, 33, of Rochester, had been charged June 23 with two counts of child endangerment and one count of animal cruelty, all misdemeanors, after the city found nine months of trash and animal waste inside her 7 South Blueberry Lane manufactured home.

Due to the conditions, the Division of Children, Youth and Families removed a teenage boy and a preteen girl from the home, while animal control officials removed a dog and a cat, police have said.

Prosecutors intended to seek Class A misdemeanor penalties on the child endangerment charges, which are normally Class B offenses. However, because they never filed a notice of intent to do so, Mone’s original charges had to be dismissed and Mone had to be re-arrested on Aug. 18, according to police.

 

Police said that Aug. 18 arrest, which occurred when Mone turned herself in that day, will allow prosecutors to seek the Class A offenses when Mone’s case goes to trial in Rochester District Court on Sept. 12.

Mone was arraigned on the new, but identical, set of charges on Monday. Her previous bail conditions weren’t affected by the second arrest, according to court records.

Mone now resides in the Partridge Green Apartments off Old Dover Road, according to court records.

 

Her former home at 7 South Blueberry Lane was demolished a few weeks ago after pest remediation company Modern Pest determined doing so wouldn’t lead to a dispersal of rats and other pests into the surrounding neighborhood, according to city Health Inspector Bob Veno.

According to Veno, Modern Pest removed dozens of rats from the 7 South Blueberry Lane and the surrounding area in the weeks after Mone was ordered to vacate the property, which is a part of Briar Ridge Estates.

Rochester Police Capt. Jason Thomas said Mone only faces one animal cruelty charge because there were “obvious signs” her dog was affected by the living conditions, whereas her cat showed no such signs.

The dog was removed June 23, the day of Mone’s arrest, whereas the cat wasn’t located and captured until about two weeks later, said Thomas.

(Fosters.com - August 23, 2017)

Earlier:

• New Hampshire: 'Overwhelming' excrement smell in Keni-Lynn Mone's trash-filled home; 2 children and 1 dog removed
• New Hampshire: Keni-Lynn Mone, 38, waives arraignment on animal cruelty, child endangerment charges

Georgia: Puppy lives after shotgun to the face, left with one eye

GEORGIA -- A Glasscock County woman became hero to a dog severely injured and fighting for his life.

“I couldn’t let him just die,” Holly Paris Black told NewsChannel 6 while visiting with her new friend.

Not even a bag of fluids with an IV kept this dog’s tail from wagging with peculiar puppy excitement. But that’s not how Black found him last weekend at her Glasscock County home.

“For me seeing a lot of injured dogs, it was one of the worse cases I had ever seen in my life, ever,” she said.

Jack walked up to Black’s home Saturday where her daughter caught an awful sight.

 

 

“She screamed,” Black explained. “I mean scream for me telling me that his eye was missing and his face was falling apart.”

Black quickly called her local vet and rushed him there where surgery happened right away. Dr. Darrell Wester, who works with Jack’s surgeon, said he’s seen these types of gun shot wounds before.

“It was a shotgun with birdshot that has a lot of small pellets,” he explained. “It blew the upper cheek muscle out, cracked some of the front facial bone and blew away the arch, the cheek bone itself and ruptured the eye.”

Jack will need additional surgery. Wester told us the wounded warrior will be just fine.

“He won’t have a right eye,” Wester said. “He’ll have severe scarring. It should heal and he should be able to have a normal, longevity life.”

And Black said she’s prepared to take care of the bill and her new, strong, loving, best friend.

“And he’s just as sweet as he can be,” she teared up.

 

 

We reached out to Glasscock County Sheriff’s Office to see if anyone will be charged with animal cruelty in the shooting of Jack. We did not receive a call or email back before this report.

To help donate to Jack’s medical fund, call Wester Veterinary Clinic at 706.597.9200.  The clinic is located at 905 Whiteoak Road, Thomson.

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(WJBF - August 29, 2017)

Florida: For twenty minutes, Donte Francis punched, beat, slammed, threw, abused and tried to drown his Pit Bull. Now he's been charged with Felony Animal Cruelty

FLORIDA -- The Tallahassee Police Department has arrested a man on charges of animal cruelty.

Donte Francis, 34, was arrested at his home in the 2000 block of Sheridan Drive by an animal control officer with Tallahassee Police Department.

The officer was responding to a call from a witness who told police he saw Francis on top of his Pit Bull, punching it with closed fists.

The witness took a video of Francis’ cruelty and showed it to officers, who observed him punch the dog about 18 times, throw it in the pool and hold its head under water, choke it and pick it up, slamming it to the ground.

A police report on the incident says the entire episode of Francis’ abuse took place over 20 minutes.

When officers arrived at Francis’ home to ask him about the footage, they said they saw the dog in a pen in the back yard and were concerned that it was not moving. 

The arrest report says Francis told officers he had “washed his dog in the back yard.”

Francis was charged with felony animal cruelty.  Francis was booked into the Leon County Jail and was released Wednesday after posting $1,000 bail. Officers took the dog to a local shelter.

Investigators are continuing to follow up with the case and are asking anyone with information to call (850) 891-4200, or if they choose to remain anonymous, to call Crime Stoppers at (850) 574-TIPS.

ARREST INFO:
Full Name: Donte Keyon Francis
Race: Black
Gender: Male
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 180
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
DOB: 10/10/1982
Arrest age: 34
Address: 2018 Sheridan Drive, Tallahassee FL
Charges:
Felony Animal Cruelty pursuant to Florida Statute 828.12(2)

(WCTV - August 16, 2017)

Washington: Animal Control rescues lost iguana; trying to find its owner

WASHINGTON -- Are you missing your iguana? SCRAPS may have found it.

SCRAPS received a call about an iguana in a tree in the Gonzaga District on Thursday. The lizard was about 15 feet up when the officer arrived and had part of its tail missing, along with a cut on its nose.

SCRAPS took the reptile to its shelter, but they are now looking for the owner.

If it's yours, you can redeem it at SCRAPS. They are located at 6815 E Trent Ave in Spokane Valley. You can call them at (509) 477-2532.

Anyone claiming the iguana must be able to provide proof of ownership.

(KHQ - August 31, 2017)

Georgia: Four cats dead, one badly injured after being shot by crossbow at Lazaretto Creek Boat Ramp

GEORGIA -- Four cats are now dead after someone shot them with a crossbow arrow near the Lazaretto Boat Ramp.

One cat lived through the horrible attack and now investigators are working to try to find out who committed the animal cruelty.

In areas around the Lazaretto Creek Boat Ramp you will find bowls full of cat food, that's because people are feeding feral and abandoned cats, one of the feeders found a terrible surprise, four dead cats and one seriously injuries.

For the survivor, it is a miracle he is alive. Crossbow arrows were used to kill a group of cats near the boat ramp, closer to the fishing pier at the end of the road.

The woman who found the cat then drove the cat to Tybee Animal Care where Dr. Jenkins helped the injured kitty.

"We discovered on x-ray it was a small arrow head embedded into the neck of the cat," said Dr. Kari Jenkins, Managing Veterinarian, Tybee Animal Care. "The cat needed surgery to have that removed."

The cat will be ok and is back with the woman who found him. For now she is acting as the foster.

Lots and lots of cats can be seen even still where the dead ones were found. Islands Feral Cat Project tells me it is a regular place where you see people giving up the responsibility of keeping their pet cat but dropping it off and driving off.

"I guess what made me mad is someone's cat got killed because either the owner dumped it off here or someone else dumped it off here," said Marie Rodriguez, President, Islands Feral Cat Project.

Marie works to trap feral cats and get them spayed or neutered. She tells me she is hoping upcoming efforts will deter people from dumping cats here.

"My friend who owns Spiva Law Firm offered to donate six cameras out here because he knows how important it is to have cameras to where people can see and people will know if you are driving down this road and you are going to dump off an animal then we will have your car and license plate on video," said Rodriguez.

The person who shot these arrows has not been caught yet. If you know anything you can report it to Animal Services or Crimestoppers.

"It is illegal and it is cruelty to animals whether or not these animals are owned," said Kerry Sirevicius, Director, Chatham County Animal Services. "I will prosecute to the highest extent of the law if anyone is injuring cats in the community and I catch them."

Islands Feral Cat Project says that you would need to call Chatham County Animal Services if you need help with a feral cat and they will work together to see what can be done for the animal.

"If you are having a problem with a cat and you are mad at your neighbors or whatever and you can't work it out then call Animal Control and they will give you my number. I am the Feral Cat Liaison for Animal Control, I try to help both sides with the problem," said Rodriguez.

"Just do not take matters into your own hands, we are able to trap the un-owned cats that are not part of a managed colony. There are ways to contain cats and we can give owners that information, that's where I come in to be that mediator to make sure the animals stay on their own property and not get into trouble in your neighbor's yard," said Sirevicius.

No suspects have been caught in relation to this animal cruelty crime, if you know anything you are urged to call CrimeStoppers at 912-234-2020.

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(WTOC - August 31, 2017)