Ok, we’re got one very sick SOB here! Not only does he get kicks out of torturing dogs, he likes to be on film and involve kids too!!

Larry Cummins, 41, of Hasty, AR and a 15 yr old accomplice were arrested after a videotape surfaced showing them torturing at least seven dogs by cattle prod and stomping on them. There were at least four different scenes on the videotape including one of Cummins torturing a small white dog with a cattle prod until it was bleeding from the mouth and another showing them breaking into a neighbor’s house and the 15 year old stomping on a little dog until it screamed in pain.

Larry Cummings and his accomplice call this cattle prod “Mr. Green”. They even tested the prod on a metal fence to make sure its working. The two can then be seen walking into a dog pen, where Cummings is overheard saying “this is where the dogs get hurt”.

Court documents indicate the 15-year-old then apparently videotaped Cummings using that cattle prod to purposefully and repeatedly shock a small white dog. The abuse didn’t end there. The two suspects continued to document themselves shocking a dog so badly, the animal is seen having blood coming from its mouth. The suspects can then be seen chasing and shocking the dog while it’s trying to escape. All of this happened on property owned by the 15-year-old’s family.

Newton County investigators say the two then went into a neighbor’s home. That’s where the 15-year-old apparently stomped on a small black dog in a dog bed causing it to howl in pain in terror. In total, investigators say seven dogs may have been tortured over a two day period. Newton County’s sheriff says it’s one of the more graphic things he’s seen.

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Update 8/5/08 - A Second Arrest - See update Below!

It started last week with 23 dogs found in a farmer’s Grand Island, NE, corn field. Initially a dog was spotted Thursday afternoon near the corner of a cornfield north of Prairie Road by two people who were driving by the field.

When they stopped to investigate, they saw more dogs, which resulted in the Central Nebraska Humane Society and Hall County Sheriff’s Department responding to the scene. Twenty of the dogs were dead, the three found alive succumbed shortly thereafter, two while investigators were still working the scene and the third, a pregnant female on route to a veterinarian hospital.

The dogs; pugs, Yorkies, terriers, terrier mixes, dachshunds and labradoodles, all adult dogs, had no collars or tags but one did have a microchip. Although the microchip wasn’t registered, it still led the investigation in the right direction, straight to Denise Withee.

Denise Withee, 45, of Mapleton, Iowa, is described as someone who buys and sells dogs. She was found at Grand Island Hotel and also found was a litter of 13 malnourished and flea ridden puppies. Withee was arrested and at the time, charged with three counts of animal abandonment, Call IV felonies. Other charges may also be coming. The puppies were seized and taken to the Central Nebraska Humane Society.

And this is not the end of this sad story! Seems Withee also has a track record of animal cruelty in her home town in Iowa too.

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