Stories like this and people like this just make me sick! Rather than to try to find any options or talk to the humane society, William Jenkins, 44, of Fort Myers, FL, decided to brutally bludgeon his dog to death because he “couldn’t afford the surrender fee.”
Jenkins actually took the dog to the Gulf Coast Humane Society in Fort Myers but when asked to wait during the intake, he left. The last anyone saw the dog alive, he was in the front seat of Jenkins’ vehicle.
“He was hanging out of the window like a normal dog - tongue waving in the breeze and ears flapping,” said Aimee LaLonde, a shelter employee.
The next thing witnesses saw was Jenkins taking the dog into the wood, just a couple hundred yards down the road from the shelter, where he would have had a chance. When Jenkins game out of the woods, he was alone. He’d beaten the dog to death and buried its body in a shallow grave.
William Jenkins Brutally Killed Dog
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May
An enjoyable jaunt around the neighborhood with your dog can take a decidedly unpleasant turn when your beloved pet enthusiastically buries his nose in garbage, rotten food or . . . something worse. Repulsed, you wonder, what’s wrong with this animal?The answer: probably nothing. As off-putting as this behavior is to us humans, it’s normal for dogs, according to Tina Cheng, DVM of the Animal Clinic of Encino, Calif. “Dogs explore their world through their noses,” she says. “They want to check everything out.” That includes all kinds of garbage, waste products of other dogs or animals, rotten food and dirty water. Read more… »
The story of Jeffrey Ely who hit and killed the little 13 lb miniature pincher, Fester, then sued his owners for $1,100 got not only national but international attention and Ely says it also ruined his reputation.
The quickest way to sum up the outcome of the case is that the judge just threw it out!
Judge Gerald Maher heard the case Friday afternoon. Both parties, Jeffrey Ely, the man who hit and killed the little dog, and Daniel Munthe, one of the owners of Fester, the dog who was killed, representing themselves.
Judge Maher said that neither side could prove the other had been negligent so instead of taking the case under advisement he dismissed it.
“You don’t have a legal cause of action,” Maher said. “You never should have been here.”
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