Camp Lejeune Military Police officer Matthew Eaton arrested for shooting, killing two hunting dogs

NORTH CAROLINA -- Authorities say Jeremy Edge of Jacksonville has been arrested for allegedly killing two hunting dogs.

Jones County officials say Edge was taken into custody Monday on two counts of felony cruelty to animals, two counts of misdemeanor larceny, two counts of misdemeanor injury to personal property, and two counts of misdemeanor removal of a electronic tracking collar.

Officers said Matthew Eaton was hunting in the area with his two Walker Fox Hounds (also referred to as American Fox Hounds in another article) on Saturday morning. The two dogs were tracking a deer about a mile away when he heard three gunshots coming from the dogs direction. Following that, two hunters appeared from the woods.

"We asked them if they shot at the deer. One of the guys who was sitting in the closer field said that his buddy had seen the deer but he didn't shoot at it, he shot something else," Eaton said.

According to Eaton both of the dogs' GPS collars were removed and buried in the mud. He found the two dogs dead bodies close by.

"One of them had been shot twice and one of them was shot once. It was terrible. They're part of the family. They're hunting companions that we've been hunting with since they were puppies," Eaton said.

"You can't just replace them. They're more than a dog. I just want him to get punished for what he's done. I just don't want him to be stopped so he doesn't do it again to someone else's dog," Eaton said.

Edge’s bond was set at $20,000 secured and he’s schedule to go before a judge on Tuesday.

Authorities say Edge did admit to killing two hunting dogs in the Croatan National Forest on Saturday.

Deputies say they learned of a GMC Yukon in the area and were able to track down the owner who said Edge had borrowed the vehicle to go hunting.

When confronted, Edge told deputies that where he’s from in Tennessee it’s legal to shoot a dog that interrupts your hunt.

He is currently serving as Military Police aboard Camp Lejeune.

(WNCN - Nov 17, 2015)

Dog saved after six days stuck on mountain ledge

UNITED KINGDOM -- Mountain rescue teams have saved a dog who was stuck on a remote ledge in Snowdonia for six days.

Corris, an 18-month-old foxhound, had been stranded on steep ground on the side of Trwyn Y Graig, in the Nantlle area when she was eventually reached by members of the Aberglaslyn Mountain Rescue Team.
 

And despite repeated attempts to bite her rescuers - who abseiled down the cliff to reach her - she was eventually enticed to safety with the use of digestive biscuits, and has now been returned to her owners

Corris had been walking in the area with her owners the previous Sunday, who had failed with their own attempts to rescue her.

(WalesOnline - Dec 9, 2013)

Dogs attack Raleigh woman, Golden Retriever on morning walk

NORTH CAROLINA -- Julie Pribyl says she is thankful for two people who intervened Tuesday morning when she and her 5-year-old golden retriever, Daisy, were attacked by two other dogs in the Wood Valley Drive neighborhood in north Raleigh.

"One went immediately for her neck, and the other attacked her from the side," Pribyl said
Wednesday. "They pulled me onto the ground onto my stomach and were pulling me into the woods."

"They relentlessly would not stop attacking her. I kicked and screamed," she added. "I yelled 'Help me! Help me! Help me!' at the top of my lungs. I knew I couldn't let go of her leash, and I had to pull very hard."

That's when an employee with the North Raleigh Tree & Bucket Truck Services who was working in the area heard Pribyl and came to her rescue.

The worker, who did not want to be identified, grabbed a shovel, and a neighbor who also heard the commotion used an umbrella to get the dogs – a pit bull-mix and a foxhound – away from Pribyl and Daisy.

Pribyl was scraped up a bit but wasn't seriously injured. Daisy, however, has months of healing ahead from injuries she received to her ear, several puncture wounds to the neck and elsewhere on her body.

"It would have been a different story had they not showed up," Pribyl said of the two men.

"I have nothing but the utmost respect for that man," Kevin Kenny, who owns the tree removal company, said of his employee. "There's a guy who had everything to lose, and he didn't even stop to think. He just ran into harm's way and saved that woman."

The dogs, which Pribyl said she has never seen before, ran off, leaving Wake County animal control officers to search for them and their owner.

But the story doesn't end there.

After WRAL reporter Amanda Lamb and photojournalist Chad Flowers interviewed Pribyl Wednesday morning, a neighbor flagged them down after finding a stray dog.

Lamb called the owner, Shep Wells, and also Pribyl, who identified the dog as one from Tuesday's attack.

Wells admitted to letting the dog, Crosby, run free Tuesday and Wednesday, along with another dog. He said he had let them out to go to the bathroom and that he got distracted.

Animal control officers ended up charging Wells with two misdemeanor counts of creating a nuisance – charges that each carry a $200 fine.

 

Wells said that although his dog has been involved in "scuffles" with his other dogs, he was surprised to hear that they attacked Daisy and Pribyl.

"I'm really sorry about the whole thing," he said. "I'm willing to make it right, whatever needs to be done."

(WRAL - Aug 30 2013)

Dozens of dogs in 'deplorable conditions' taken from Wash. home

WASHINGTON -- Dozens of dogs were seized from a home out of compliance with county code Friday afternoon.

 

Lewis County sheriff's spokesman Steve Aust said animal control officers seized 72 foxhounds, some of them puppies, from a home in the 400 block of River Road. A deceased dog was also found on the property.

Two Animal Control officers from Clark County helped with the rescue. They took 16 of the dogs to a Vancouver Humane Society.

The animals were living in deplorable conditions, said Aust.

"The puppies that were brought out were wading in inches of feces," said Pasado's Safe Haven spokesperson Amber Chenoweth.

Aust said the county had been working with the dogs' owner for the past few months in an effort to get her property up to code. However, it became clear that the owner, a woman in her 70s, would not be able to do so.

[The reason the woman in her 70s was "unable to do so" was because she didn't care. She churned out puppies like nobody's business, all for greed of money. She had been making money hand over fist for years like this so why should she work twice as hard at providing humane living conditions when the dogs continue to breed no matter what their conditions? She would have kept this up if they hadn't forced her to come to a crossroads.]

"This looks like a hoarding situation, a puppy mill situation," said Chenoweth.

The owner has given up custody of all the dogs, and all of the animals will eventually be available for adoption.

Pasado's Safe Haven was providing temporary shelter for some of the dogs, and the rest will be kept at various shelters.

A necropsy will be performed on the deceased dog, Aust said. The owner has not been [yet been] charged.

(KCBY - Oct 21, 2012)

Small Dog Mauled At Boarding Kennel; Euthanized

NEBRASKA -- A small dog is mauled at a boarding kennel on Thanksgiving. The pet owner is livid after returning from a holiday trip to learn his dog was killed.

RIP Jack

Dog owner John Pearcy said, “If there’s a violent dog death in the shop then they’re obviously doing the procedures wrong.” Pearcy had placed his small Papillion named Jack at Jade’s Pet Club boarding in Papillion, Nebraska.

Owner Andrea Pettid said her husband was feeding the boarded dogs Thanksgiving when the small dog went to the bowl in a kennel of a hound dog named Blaze. Pettid described what happened next.

“My husband went to scoop up the little dog and the little dog kind of yelped because I think my husband scared him. The little dog swung around and bit my husband so the big dog went for the little dog.”

[Show me the bite report for her husband. Show me his visit to a doctor for the bite. And explain to me why this little dog was in this area with these large dogs in the first place.

She justifies it by saying the hound was 'probably protecting its kennel area'. She doesn't know. She wasn't there.

I want to see the bites on her husband from the hound to prove that he intervened immediately to save little Jack. After all, she says he was bent down trying to pick up the small dog and 'it swung around and bit him'. So he would've had his arms right in the way for when the hound attacked.  Oh? He doesn't have bites on his hands? What did he do, simply stand there while little Jack was mauled?

Or could it be that no one was there, that this whole story is made up? They left little Jack unattended in a roomful of large dogs and they found him mortally injured. That's what I believe happened.]

The kennel owner said the seven year old blood hound [that's not a Bloodhound, it looks like an American Foxhound to me] was probably protecting its kennel area. While not seizing the hound dog, the Nebraska Humane Society cited the boarding kennel owner. Humane Society Operations Vice President Mark Langan said, “The law is called owner liability. This will allow a judge to order this person to pay restitution to the owner of the small dog.”

The kennel owner said she apologizes and won’t let big and little dogs in the same area again. After paying for the vet bills to try to save the small dog, she’s offering to pay $200 for a replacement puppy.

[She did not pay vet bills to SAVE THE SMALL DOG. She took the dog to the vet and had him put to sleep - without the owner's permission. She did not say to the vet, "Whatever it costs, I'll pay. Spare no expense to save him b/c it's our fault that he's injured." She chose the cheaper route and simply had him put down.]

But the owner of Jack said money and apologies won’t bring back his faithful friend. John Pearcy said, “That makes it really worse for me knowing I took him there and he died violently.”

(WOWT - Nov 29, 2011)