OXFORD, OHIO -- He was supposed to be caring for his roommate's cat, but when the roommate came home, he found his pet badly burned.
20-year-old Hancheng "Tony" Dai is charged with abusing his roommate's cat. The cat, named clover, has severe burns and a broken leg.
Based on his Facebook page, I believe he may be a Chinese national here on a student visa. China does not have any animal cruelty laws. You're allowed to do whatever you want to animals without repercussion. Not only is that an abhorrent thought, but it also causes problems when they come to America and bring this mindset with them; that they can do whatever they want to poor animals without impunity. Consider this: Among the top 10 most industrialized nations, China is the only one that does not have a law against animal cruelty. England brought in the first modern anti-cruelty legislation in 1822. China is nearly 200 years behind the British in their thinking regarding animal welfare.
Lt. Lara Fening with Oxford Police Department said, “There was a lot of damage to that cat. Although, they say it's in much better spirits than when it came into the vet when it seemed very sick, but it seemed in really good spirits today although it looked horrible."
The owner left their home in Oxford for six weeks and asked Dai to take care of Clover for him.
Investigators say when the Miami University student got back to his apartment, he found his cat, Clover, with multiple injuries – the back, sides and top of the cat’s head were severely burned, leaving raw, bloody skin and loose patches of hair. Clover also had a broken leg.
Dai claimed he washed Clover in hot water and used a hair dryer on the cat, but claimed he did not think the heat or water were enough to have caused the injuries.
Police say the veterinarian believes the cat’s burns are thermal or chemical.
A thermal burn is a type of burn resulting from making contact with heated objects, such as boiling water, steam, hot cooking oil, fire, and hot objects. Scalds are the most common type of thermal burn.
Chemical burns come from someone pouring a caustic substance onto the animal such as bleach, drain cleaner.
Dai claimed to an investigating officer that Clover "jumped off the refrigerator and that's how she broke her leg".
Although the cat is in good spirits, police say it was hard to see. Lt. Fening saw the cat Tuesday afternoon.
“It was wanting me to pet it, rubbing its face against my fingers, but I was afraid to pet it because there were not many places I could pet it,” Fening said.
Clover is at the Oxford Veterinary Hospital and police tell us the cat will have surgery for its injuries tomorrow.
Police charged Dai with "injuring animals". That's a misdemeanor. The prosecutor could charge him with a crime that carries a stiffer penalty.
They better upgrade it to a felony. Misdemeanor animal cruelty is more for neglect (hoarding, untreated mange). This was torture and shows intent to harm, maim and kill. ARREST INFORMATION:
Full Name: Hancheng Dai
Alias: Hancheng Tony Dai, Tony Dai
Arrest Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race: Asian
Birthdate: 05/19/1997
Height: 6'00"
Weight: 185 lbs
Hair Color: BLACK
Eye Color: BROWN
Date:01/27/2018
Time: 12:29 PM
Arrest Location:11 S. POPLER ST OXFORD, O, Butler, OH
County: Butler County, Ohio
Charges
#1 INJURING ANIMALS
BOND: $1150
FLORIDA -- A man has been arrested, accused of mutilating his dog.
Fritzner Julien, 21, was arrested on Wednesday for animal cruelty, which is a first degree misdemeanor.
According to a probable cause document, an officer was called to 500 Chapel Drive on Oct. 8 about an animal. Notes say the caller told the officer that their neighbor had been beating a dog for about 15 minutes.
After meeting with the complainant, the officer went over to Fritzner Julien's apartment. The officer noted that immediately after opening the door, Julien asked if the officer was there about the dog.
When the officer finally saw the dog, the officer noticed that it had a fresh, half inch long cut on its shoulder. Documents say the cut was actively bleeding.
Julien told the responding officer that he was lying in bed when he woke up because his dog had defecated in the bed. He said he then shoved the dog off of him and tried to drag it to the bathroom so he could bathe it.
He claimed the dog may have been cut when he pushed it off the bed.
Next day, according to the report, another officer followed up at Julien's apartment. As Julien opened the door, however, the officer noticed an open wound on the dog's shoulder and a wound on the bridge of its nose.
When asked about the injuries, Julien told the officer that it was possible the dog fell on glass when he fell off the bed.
Documents say the officer also noticed several other wounds that appeared to be in different states of healing. When asked about how those happened, Julien replied "I don't know."
Before leaving, the officer took pictures of the dog and issued a notice to comply for Julien to get medical care for the dog within 48 hours.
Two days later, an investigator followed up with Julien. Documents say that upon opening the door, Julien told the investigator he hadn't taken the dog to the vet.
This time, documents say that there were bloody sores on the dog's ear in addition to the other injuries. When asked about the new wounds, Julien said the dog's skin just started coming off.
"When [the investigator] asked about the new and old wounds," probable cause documents say, "[Julien] stated, 'If I burned the dog you would know.'"
The investigator noted in the report that nothing was previously said about him burning the dog.
Documents say the investigator tried to encourage Julien to surrender the dog to Animal Control so it could receive medical treatment, but he refused. He eventually told investigators to take the dog, but refused to surrender the dog.
When the dog was examined by a veterinarian, the doctor reported that the dog had multiple lacerations and possible burn wounds that were between four and 14 days old.
Based on the assessment, the doctor indicated that the dog had been the victim of animal cruelty/neglect.
A warrant was signed for Julien's arrest on Monday and he was arrested at his apartment on Wednesday.
ARREST INFO:
Name: Fritzner Julien Jr.
Race: Black
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 12/28/1995
Arrest age: 21
Arrest date: 10/25/2017
Arresting agency: Leon County Sheriff's Office
Charge:
CONSERVATION-ANIMALS TORMENT DEPRIVE MUTILATE KILL
HAWAII -- A man accused of killing federally protected Laysan albatross birds on Oahu has been sentenced.
On March 16, NYU college student Christian Gutierrez pleaded no contest to amended charges of third-degree theft, prohibited activities, prohibited activities in a natural area reserve, fourth-degree criminal property damage, and second-degree cruelty to animals.
Despite torturing and killing dozens of birds, Gutierrez and the other monsters were only charged with one count of 2nd-degree animal cruelty.
On Thursday, July 6, a judge sentenced the Punahou School graduate to 45 days in jail and a year of probation. He will also have to serve 200 hours of community service and pay restitution.
The vulnerable Kaena albatrosses apparently were easy targets for the killers, who allegedly bashed the birds with a baseball bat, slashed some their bodies and chopped off their wings and legs with a machete and shot others with a pellet gun.
“The nature and circumstances of the crimes that you pled to shock the conscience. The killing of these defenseless and protected birds was inexcusable,” said Circuit Court Judge Jeannette Castagnetti.
Gutierrez spoke before a packed courtroom, and apologized for his actions:
“I’ve been listening to what people have been saying about this case, and about my character, and about what’s happened since the beginning, and also here today in this courtroom. The people have every right to be angry and disgusted with my behavior, as I am disgusted with my own behavior. I wish I had the courage not to go along, but I did and I will forever have that memory.
“Ms. Young, Ms. Case, Ms. Zoll, and Mr. Aila, I am sorry for the impact that my actions have caused you and the community. Ms. (Lindsay Young, executive director, Pacific Rim Conservation Group), seven months ago in the hallway of this courtroom, you said to me you should be ashamed of yourself, and you’re right. I am ashamed of myself.”
If he were really remorseful he wouldn't have dragged this out for more than a year "fighting to get a deferred sentence" which would have wiped his record clean after the probation and blocked the police reports as if he had never tortured these poor animals to death. He's not sorry. If he were, he would have manned up, plead guilty at the onset and issued his apology then.
Gutierrez was taken into custody immediately following his sentencing. While being handcuffed, he uttered yet another apology: “I love you, Mom. I love you, Dad. I’m sorry.”
His attorney, Myles Breiner, says he’s disappointed with the outcome.
He had been fighting to get the charges deferred, meaning if Gutierrez stayed out of trouble, the charges would eventually be wiped from his record. But the judge denied that request.
“We thought that he deserved a deferral,” Breiner said. “We’re disappointed that the court gave him any jail at all. Hopefully when he gets out, he’ll be able to resume his studies in New York.”
His parents clearly have a lot of money. They live in Hawaii and yet they're able to send their kid all the way to NYC to go to school at NYU and have him fly home for breaks? None of that is affordable to 75% of Americans. New York University Undergraduate Student Cost Per Year Data shown for 2014-2015 school year. Tuition & Fees Out-of-State: $46,170 Room and Board: $16,782 Books & Supplies: $1,070 Other Expenses: $2,000 Total In-State: $66,022 Headline should be "Spoiled rich kid tortures and kills animals for his amusement knowing Mommy and Daddy will bail him out"
Gutierrez will have to report to a probation officer once he’s released from jail.
In December 2015, officials found at least 15 nests in Kaena Point Natural Area Reserve were destroyed with either smashed, dead, or missing eggs. At least 32 adults and eggs were killed, officials said, and there was evidence that several birds had their feet cut off.
Seabird monitoring cameras and sound equipment were also missing with a replacement value of $3,100, officials said.
KILLERS BRAGGED ABOUT THEIR CRIMES
According to civilbeat.org, all the details I have about the alleged albatross killers came indirectly from the suspects themselves who, at a party shortly after the Kaena incident, bragged to their peers about what they had done to the birds. Their boasting included showing the metal identification tags obtained by cutting off the albatrosses’ feet.
Some of their peers were stunned and told their parents. The word got out to Punahou School and others.
Oblivious to the reaction of their classmates, the suspects continued to show off the metal tags and even post pictures of the dead birds on their social media sites until eventually taking down the incriminating information.
What makes the alleged crime particularly horrific is nesting albatrosses are harmless, trusting creatures that are unafraid of human beings. By their nature, the birds stay close to their eggs and chicks no matter what’s happening around their nests.
A year later, Gutierrez turned himself in after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
“If you approach an animal that is not going to try to escape because it is guarding its eggs, and you not only smash its egg, but rip it apart while alive and then save an ID band as a souvenir, one you had to get by dismembering a limb, for entertainment, and you do it more than a dozen times, you have no conscience,” Executive Director of Pacific Rim Conservation Lindsay Young said.
He initially pleaded not guilty to multiple counts, including theft, entering a prohibited area, prohibited activities in a nature reserve, fourth-degree criminal property damage, and 14 counts of animal cruelty, before reaching a deal with prosecutors.
The state Department of Land and Natural Resources says the sentencing sends a strong message that crimes like this aren’t taken lightly.
“Everyone wants to be clear that we cannot tolerate this type of behavior. It’s brutal. It’s heinous, and we need to protect our wildlife,” said DLNR chair Suzanne Case. “It’s hard to put a dollar figure on that. We obviously spent hundreds of thousands of dollars creating this protected area and protected from invasive predators, and unfortunately, not protected from man.”
DLNR estimates the long-term effects of the killings resulted in about 320 albatross lost.
Breiner previously told us Gutierrez was not the ring leader, and other individuals — who were juveniles — were involved.
We asked Breiner what’s next for the other boys involved in the case, but he says he can’t comment because those cases are in juvenile court.
THE ALBATROSS IN FOLKLORE
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" tells us that the albatross is a powerful symbol of good luck — and that it can bring terrible misfortune or “bachi” to kill one.
In the poem, a sailor brings to an abrupt end the good sailing conditions his ship has been experiencing when for no reason he fires an arrow from his crossbow to kill a friendly albatross that had taken to following behind the ship.
After the bird’s death, the ship is cursed with life-threatening storms. The furious crew members punish the albatross killer by tying the dead albatross on a rope dangling from his neck.
In the poem, the sailor says: “Ah! well a-day that evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.” -- Civilbeat.org
TENNESSEE -- Charges have been filed in the case of two ex-MTSU players investigated for animal cruelty, according to Rutherford County PAWS.
“Rutherford County PAWS was contacted by a concerned citizen regarding a Snapchat video they had seen of a puppy being hit," Rutherford County PAWS Director Michael Gregory said.
9-second video clip of the abuse
"Due to the difficult nature of the case, Murfreesboro Police Department was contacted and Det. Kristy Inglish took a huge role in investigating and working to piece together the incident.
"The Middle Tennessee Athletics Department, mainly head football coach Rick Stockstill, was very cooperative in our investigation as well. This is just one more example of several local agencies working together to ensure that our citizens, including those with four legs, are protected.”
Both Justin Akins and Shalom Alvarez were dismissed from the MTSU football team Friday after a video was posted on Akins' Snapchat account in which Alvarez can be seen repeatedly striking a puppy, according to an MPD police report.
PAWS did not say who the charges were filed against, and MPD hadn't released the names as of who was arrested.
Akins played in all 13 games last season and recorded 27 tackles and led all linemen with four pass breakups.
He recorded 1.5 sacks over the past two seasons.
Alvarez joined the Blue Raiders in 2016 but did not play in any games.
TENNESSEE -- Two Middle Tennessee football players have been suspended over a Snapchat video one recorded of the other slapping a puppy.
Shalom Alvarez, 20, and Justin Akins, 22, are facing animal cruelty charges in light of the footage which Akins posted online recently.
It showed Alvarez, a linebacker, gripping the tiny puppy by the back of the neck and repeatedly striking the pup across its face as it screamed in terror.
Akins, a defensive lineman, filmed him and shared it with fans on Snapchat along with the caption: '[expletive] said you don't pay rent.'
The pair later told coaches they were trying to discipline the animal for urinating indoors.
The video is no longer available in full but an eagle eyed fan recorded it on their own phone to hand over to authorities. WSMV obtained a copy of the fan's recording.
Middle Tennessee Coach Rick Stockstill said that the players told him they were trying to "house train" the dog.
'The players explained to me that the puppy urinated inside and they were simply spanking it as a form of discipline.
'They told me there was never any intent to harm the dog. This was an important teaching moment.
'I talked to them about other approaches that should have been considered in this situation.
'And I pointed out how disciplining a pet in such a manner could be misconstrued, especially with the impact of social media,' he said.
Hey, Rick Stockstill. Would you still be issuing such a moronic statement if the abused victim were a 2-year-old child screaming in pain and terror each and every time Alavarez hit him/her? You can hear the smacks on that puppy's tiny body by a full grown man who is much more muscular than most his age. Stop enabling and minimizing abuse, Rick Stockstill. Whether it's abuse of women, children or animals - IT'S NOT RIGHT!
NOW WE KNOW WHY AKINS THINKS IT'S FUNNY TO POST VIDEOS OF INNOCENT ANIMALS BEING ABUSED, HE'S A THUG
Rutherford County Animal Control investigators said when they were trying to track Akins down for an interview at the College Grove apartments, they found he was evicted last May and not allowed there or at Aspen Heights for a shooting incident involving police.
Channel 4 also found Akins was arrested in January for resisting arrest and possession of marijuana.
Murfreesboro Police are investigating the pair for animal cruelty. No charges have yet been brought.
It is not clear which of the pair the dog belonged to. - A different article said the puppy didn't belong to either of these cretins.
Neither has spoken publicly since the video emerged.
OHIO -- A University of Akron student pleaded not guilty Friday morning in Summit County Common Pleas Court to an animal cruelty charge for the death of his roommate’s kitten.
Matthew McCullough, 20, will remain free on a personal recognizance bond. The case has been assigned to Judge Amy Corrigall Jones.
McCullough recently was indicted by a Summit County grand jury on a charge of cruelty against a companion animal, a fifth-degree felony. If convicted, he faces up to a year in jail.
McCullough is accused of throwing Leo, his roommate’s 10-month-old kitten, against the wall in their Carroll Street apartment. He took Leo to the vet but the kitten was already dead.
McCullough was the first person in Summit County charged under Dick Goddard’s law, a law named for the retired WJW (Channel 8) weatherman that went into effect in September. The law made it a felony, rather than a misdemeanor, to harm a companion animal.
HAWAII -- An NYU student has further endangered a number of already in danger albatrosses.
In court on Thursday, Tisch sophomore Christian Gutierrez pleaded no contest to five charges — including animal cruelty and theft — after a dozen albatrosses were BEATEN, TORTURED AND SLAUGHTERED in a Hawaii nature reserve.
The vulnerable Kaena albatrosses apparently were easy targets for the killers, who allegedly bashed the birds with a baseball bat, slashed some their bodies with a machete and shot others with a pellet gun. Bloody feathers lay in piles where the missing birds had been nesting, indicating they met gruesome and cruel deaths. The ruined nests and dead adults were located in widely scattered locations over several acres in the reserve, indicating the perpetrators spent some time killing birds and dismembering their bodies.
Investigations at the Kaena Point Natural Area Reserve by the state’s Department of Land and Natural Resources began in December 2015, when Executive Director of Pacific Rim Conservation Lindsay Young said that the group received an email from a friend with pictures of the dead birds in positions that were not a result of natural mortality.
“It was clearly intentionally caused by humans and not caused by predators or other natural events,” Young said. “The photographs released of the severed feet show clean cut marks indicating some kind of knife was used to cut them off.”
According to a nest inventory of the reserve, trespassers had significantly damaged the species and habitat of the Laysan albatross — a federally protected species.
The inventory reported that there were 12 missing adult albatrosses, a number of smashed, missing or dead eggs and 15 destroyed nests out of the 45 documented nests at Kaena Point.
Gutierrez is one of three classmates from a Honolulu prep school charged for this incident. His statement filed in court said that he was camping in Kaena Point with others when they entered a prohibited area, and the trio participated in illegal activities that resulted in the death of numerous albatross birds and eggs and the destruction of equipment owned by the Pacific Rim Conservation Organization.
Gutierrez originally pleaded not guilty in December after being charged with 19 criminal counts but accepted a plea deal on Thursday, which — in exchange for the prosecution dismissing his 14 remaining counts — will require him to testify against others who may be involved.
Gutierrez’s attorney said that pleading no contest protects his client from the threat of collateral civil action — simply put, the defendant must show liability to avoid being involved in a civil settlement.
Spokesman for the Honolulu prosecuting attorney’s office Chuck Parker told Washington Square News that this result affirms the defendant’s help in gathering evidence.
“Essentially the plea deal was agreed to to get Gutierrez’s cooperation for a testimony against others who may be involved in the case,” Parker said. “We agreed to him pleading no contest to fewer charges than he was originally charged with, but he has to cooperate with us and provide evidence against others who may be involved.”
During his hearing on Thursday, Gutierrez requested a deferral of his no contest plea from the court. Gutierrez’s defense attorney Myles Breiner said that if the court accepts the deferral in June when he is sentenced, Gutierrez will be free to seek an expungement of his record.
If deferral is awarded by the court, Breiner said that Gutierrez must adhere to numerous conditions outlined by the court in what he called a potentially arduous process similar to probation, but Breiner said there is no guarantee that the court will accept his request.
“For certain offenses you have a one-time opportunity to have it erased from your record, provided you do whatever needs to be done in terms of probation,” Breiner said. “It is a type of sentencing and if the court grants the motion for deferral, effectively Mr. Gutierrez has no conviction.”
Breiner said that Gutierrez is a candidate for deferral of no contest, because he is a first-time offender with a clean record.
Parker said that because the other two involved in this case are juveniles, they will be tried in family court and their information cannot be released.
According to Breiner, the prosecution recognized that Gutierrez was not the ringleader of this incident. Yet, because he was the only offender to be tried as an adult, he has received the majority of the social media backlash.
“He has become the poster boy for this type of crime, which is considered by many people to be a heinous crime,” Breiner said. “[The public is] willing to place Mr. Gutierrez front and center as the image of violence toward protected species, and that is very troubling to me.”
Breiner said that Gutierrez attached a written statement to the plea agreement accepting responsibility and apologizing for the death and destruction of the habitat. Breiner also said that Gutierrez has promised to repay and provide restitution to the Pacific Rim Conservation Group proportionate to the stolen and damaged equipment and the fines — he also said that Gutierrez is in the process of making a public safety announcement video supporting the efforts of this organization.
As far as disciplinary action, NYU spokesperson John Beckman said that the university is prohibited by federal law from discussing what action may be taken in reference to a certain student.
“I will say that the incident as described is shocking, disgraceful and senseless,” Beckman said.
Young said that although repairing the equipment damage has been relatively straightforward for Pacific Rim Conservation, she also said that assessing the damage done to 14 years of research and data has been complicated. And Young said that from a scientific standpoint, the damage done to this site has ruined one of the best long-term datasets on albatrosses anywhere in the world. As a result, she believes that the plea deal does not come close to approximating justice.
“If you approach an animal that is not going to try to escape because it is guarding its eggs, and you not only smash its egg, but rip it apart while alive and then save an ID band as a souvenir, one you had to get by dismembering a limb, for entertainment, and you do it more than a dozen times, you have no conscience,” Young said.
“Being charged with misdemeanor theft and only one count of animal cruelty — when dozens were killed and tortured — is just appalling.”
OHIO -- University of Akron student Gillian Strait was sitting in class when she got an urgent text from one of her roommates.
She needed to go to the vet. The roommate had lost his temper with her kitten, Leo.
When Strait arrived at Highland Veterinary Clinic, she learned it was too late. Leo had died from severe head trauma.
Strait was saddened by the loss and furious with her roommate, whom she said Leo was scared of and tried to avoid. She decided to cooperate with the Humane Society officer — alerted by the vet — and seek justice for her beloved orange tabby.
Strait’s roommate, Matthew McCullough, 20, has been charged with animal cruelty for the Feb. 14 incident. He is the first person in Summit County to be prosecuted under Dick Goddard’s Law, which made it a fifth-degree felony to harm a pet.
“I’m really hoping he’s found guilty and has to pay for what he did,” said Strait, 19, a sophomore majoring in music. “I understand accidents happen. It doesn’t seem to be an accident.”
McCullough was expected to receive a summons Friday and is scheduled to be arraigned at 12:30 p.m. March 3 in Akron Municipal Court. He could face six months to a year in prison.
“I have nothing to say about the matter,” McCullough said Friday when a Beacon Journal reporter knocked on his door.
Dick Goddard’s law, named for the retired Fox 8 weatherman who pushed for it, became effective in September. Several other people in Ohio also have been charged under the law, including a 19-year-old woman in Cuyahoga County who admitted to slamming an 8-week-old puppy to the ground. The puppy suffered a broken neck and died. The woman will be sentenced March 6.
The incident involving Leo happened at the off-campus apartment on Carroll Street that Strait and McCullough shared with three other UA students.
Strait and her friends had adopted Leo last October after finding the then-7-month-old kitten left behind by prior residents. Strait took the kitten to the vet for vaccinations and had him neutered.
Strait said Leo was friendly and playful and sought attention from anyone who visited. She said the kitten didn’t like McCullough, though, and hid when he came into the apartment.
She said she had asked McCullough to stop tormenting her pet, especially after the kitten relieved himself on the floor a few times after stressful encounters with McCullough.
Tim Harland, the senior humane officer with the Humane Society of Summit County, said McCullough told the staff at Highland Veterinary Clinic that he got upset and threw Leo into the wall. He said the kitten was dead when McCullough brought him in.
Harland talked to staff at the clinic, who had alerted him about the incident, got the medical records and spoke to McCullough and Strait. After consulting with the Akron Prosecutor’s Office, he decided McCullough should be charged under the new, tougher cruelty law.
“It was a case study almost of the Goddard Law,” Harland said.
McCullough told his former roommates that Leo bit, scratched and defecated on him and he became upset and threw the kitten. This account doesn’t make sense to Strait, though, because her pet avoided McCullough. She also said McCullough had no fresh scratches or marks on him.
“We don’t really know what happened,” said Strait, who has since moved to a different apartment. “We’re thinking something more went on.”
Diane Johnson, president and CEO of the Humane Society, hopes this case serves as a warning that animal cruelty is being treated more seriously than when it was only a misdemeanor. She says the Goddard Law was a good first step and hopes eventually to see the penalties increased even more.
“These pets, they are vulnerable animals,” she said. “They can’t defend themselves. I don’t think the laws are strong enough.”
Johnson praised the Highland Veterinary Clinic for alerting her agency right away.
“We rely on the public’s help in finding these cases,” she said. “Tim and the other humane officer are diligent about pursuing them. We take this very, very seriously.”
OREGON -- A Golden Retriever puppy was found alive after being left alone for a month in an apartment by his owner, a University of Oregon college student.
The four-month-old puppy, named Jake, weighed ten pounds, according to KVAL.
Eugene Animal Services said in a release: 'On November 30, an animal welfare officer responded to Uncommon Apartments for an abandoned animal.
'The property manager called after receiving an e-mail from an 18-year-old male tenant reporting he had returned home to China and believed his dog was dead inside the unit.'
According to Eugene Animal Services, 'the officer found an severely underweight and lethargic puppy unable to stand.
'The estimated 4-month-old golden retriever was taken to the Emergency Veterinary Hospital and spent two days receiving around the clock care.'
Eugene Animal Services said when Jake was stable, he was taken to First Avenue Shelter and put in foster care.
Jake was probably left alone for a month before he was saved, KVAL reported.
Molly Monette, who is the Eugene Police Department's Animal Welfare Supervisor, told The Register-Guard: 'There was a bag of food in the apartment that (Jake) didn't have access to.
'So we don't know if there was someone that was going to take care of him and wasn’t showing up. There was a food dish with no food and water in it.
'When we got there, there was access to nothing. So we don't know how long he was left with no food and water.'
Jake is currently six months old and 35 pounds, yet his growth was possibly stunted by that month, she told newspaper.
The Eugene Animal Services release said: 'After two months of close observation from Greenhill Humane Society’s Veterinary Team, he reached a healthy weight. The puppy was named Jake by staff and was adopted by his foster family.'
Attempts to contact Jake's owner proved unsuccessful, it said.
According to release: 'Further investigation by Animal Services and Eugene police detectives found that he left the country on October 29, and has not returned or enrolled for the new term at the university. The man remains a suspect in the case.'
Monette told KVAL: 'When he didn't return in time for classes to start, his visa was suspended. So he has not returned and we have not had contact with him.'
He'll just wait until the statute of limitations has run out then he'll come back.
She was Jake's foster parent and adopted Jake, explaining to the TV station: 'He has become the therapy dog for the department. So he is the newest addition to the Eugene Police Department.'
