From wsbradio.com:
Animal cruelty does not get much worse. DeKalb County police are asking for the public’s help in finding who beat a dog with a sledgehammer and left the dog to die in a local park.
The male shepherd mix was found this week, wrapped in a blanket, at Murphy Candler Park off Ashford Dunwoody Road, and is to undergo surgery Wednesday at a local veterinary clinic. The sledgehammer was just a few feet away.
As investigators work the case, WSB’s Richard Sangster reports the Dunwoody branch of the VCA Pets Are People Too Veterinary Hospital have been flooded with phone calls to help with the dog’s medical care.
The hospital has named the dog ‘Murphy,’ after the park where he was found.
Dr. Stephen Pope, hospital medical director, says the medical bills could run into the thousands of dollars.
Robert Kennedy, the man who found ‘Murphy,’ told hospital staffers that he is more than willing to pay the bills, and he is setting up a trust fund to do so. VCA Pets Are People Too is helping coordinate donations for that fund in the meantime. Their number is 770.452.1001.
Investigators are looking for anyone who saw anything unusual at the park from 9 p.m. Monday to 7 a.m. Tuesday.
Witnesses may call 404-294-2818.
I am a Dog Person. I have four lab mixes, ranging from 50-120 pounds each, and they are all house dogs. They provide more love, attention, loyalty, and protection than do 95% of the human population.
To beat a dog with a sledgehammer, and them leave him for dead, is a level of inhumanity that I will not excuse. If this loser ever tried to do the same to any of my dogs he would learn what it is to absorb multiple rounds of either .45ACP or 7.62x39mm into their sorry body, and I’ll just take my chances with the court after the fact.
And trust me, the perp would be getting off easily. The Gentle Bride™ would empty her magazine of 9mm, shred him with a knife, and then piss down the gaping hole in his neck.
I want someone other than the cops to find this person. I want this person held for rest of their life in a locked basement, and hit somewhere on his body once a day with a sledgehammer. I want this person to live a bit longer, yet scream in pain for the rest of their life.
Period.
UPDATE: The 9-year-old Australian shepherd who suffered severe head injuries after being bashed in the head with a sledgehammer has been released from the veterinary clinic. His destination: the Dunwoody home of Robert Kennedy, who found the dog near death in Murphy Candler Park on Dec. 2. He will move into the home — with a fenced-in yard — that Kennedy shares with his 25-year-old daughter and two 2-year-old golden retrievers. Veterinarians operated on Murphy’s skull fracture, which caused him to lose an eye, but he doesn’t appear to have brain damage.
A representative from Bill Jac dog food has pledged a month’s worth of chow for Murphy. A manager at the Westin at the Concourse wants to give Murphy one of the hotel’s “heavenly dog beds.” Nearly 600 people have given to a trust fund that Kennedy set up to help defray the more than $6,000 vet bill so far. Kennedy initially intended to pay the bill himself, but set up the account after being inundated with offers to help from as far away as Puerto Rico and Canada. “I’m just overwhelmed by the generosity of people, and I’m going to make sure that generosity is justified,” he said.
Animal cruelty, DeKalb County, dog, Murphy Candler Park
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1 Linz // Dec 10, 2008 at 11:56 am
That’s really touching. I hope they find the fucktard that did this to that poor dog. And, I hope they exercise an-eye-for-an-eye justice. But, that’s just me.