Not Even A Jack Russell Terrier Deserves This
Friday, July 22nd, 2011Pets die all the time – sickness, old-age, killed by other animals, flattened by a motor vehicle. Hey, it’s just the way it is! But stabbed to death and then skinned? What’s up with that? Well, in the county of Clackamas in Oregon(remind me never to set foot in this county) the residents are becoming more and more familiar with their pets dying cruel and inhumane deaths. From The Horse’s Mouth(Oregon Live):
A family found their 14-year-old Jack Russell terrier stabbed to death and partially skinned over the weekend, and police are asking the public to help find the culprits.
The case is the third recent animal mutilation case in Clackamas County. Last month, Oregon City police found two cats had been killed and partially skinned. The cat mutilations are also unsolved, and authorities are looking at whether the three cases may be related.
The family let Spot out at 10 p.m. Saturday to roam their yard off Southeast Mountain Gate Road, near Ross Road. They found her remains the next day, discarded near their home.
Because coyotes sometimes skin their kills with near-surgical precision, sheriff’s deputies took the remains to the Oregon Humane Society for a full necropsy. Veterinarian Kris Otteman, the society’s shelter medical director, confirmed that the dog had been stabbed several times and mutilated after it died.
“She reported this was not an animal attack,” Rhodes said. “Spot had been killed by someone” with a knife.
Damn, who’d a ever thunk you’d be relieved your beloved pooch met a violent death at the hands(or claws) of a coyote? How can that be the second-worst fate for a pet? Why did the dog’s name have to be “Spot”? I thought spot was a male’s name – shows how much I know.









































