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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Wed May 30, 2012, 10:38 AM May 2012

Community in shock after dog skinned alive

http://www.waaytv.com/news/local/story/Community-in-shock-after-dog-skinned-alive/TNZMkFVfx0C-AR1o7SQTJg.cspx


Bama the Pug


MONTEVALLO, Ala. (WBMA) - A Calera Veterinarian says it's the worst thing she's seen in 15 years. A family made a tough decision to euthanize their pug after the vet told them someone skinned their dog alive.

When Delana Dunnaway woke up Friday morning, she knew something was wrong! "I see them running to the back of the property and they're all standing there barking and I look down and I don't see Bama. He's always sitting beside me every morning."

The little pug was last seen around 5:15 when her husband left for work and within a few hours of searching, a family member found Bama in the woods behind Dunnaway's house. "When he walked up on him, at first he thought it was something another animal had drug up and said, this can't be possible." She says Bama was found with no skin and took him to the Calera Animal Clinic.

Doctor Rhonda Ellison says someone skinned the dog alive as there were distinct straight edge cuts on the skin. "The skin was completely off his back and off side of his flanks and from his neck to his legs, so completely skinned, someone intentionally did it."
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adigal

(7,581 posts)
3. I hate people. I am not surprised this happened in the south.
Wed May 30, 2012, 10:43 AM
May 2012

After doing dog rescue from the south for 5 years, nothing surprises me.

(I apologize to the good southerners here, I know there are northerners who do things like this, but I have seen horrendous things happen to animals mostly south of the Mason/Dixon line.)

Upton

(9,709 posts)
4. This story is hard to read..
Wed May 30, 2012, 10:44 AM
May 2012

I own two pugs, they're wonderful dogs...they're my girls, they're my family.

Anybody care to question why I believe in the RKBA?

 

Marr

(20,317 posts)
5. I do not understand how a person could do that.
Wed May 30, 2012, 10:47 AM
May 2012

Horrible doesn't even cover it. Just pointless cruelty.

Arkansas Granny

(31,517 posts)
7. I hope they find the person or persons who did this and that they get a lot of jail time.
Wed May 30, 2012, 10:54 AM
May 2012

Not only is this a horribly cruel thing to do to an animal, someone who can do this is likely to step it up and do horrendous things to humans, as well. People who do these things have no conscience or empathy and are dangerous to all other beings they come in contact with.

Bake

(21,977 posts)
16. I hope what was done to this creature, is done to the perpetrator.
Wed May 30, 2012, 01:24 PM
May 2012

It would serve his sadistic ass right. Anybody who could do this to a dog does not deserve to be called human.

I'm sick of people.

Bake

 

Meiko

(1,076 posts)
12. Although I don't
Wed May 30, 2012, 12:06 PM
May 2012

"hate people" or tend to bunch everyone together I am not real happy with this guy, what a sick demented bastard. The COPS and the animal control people need to find whoever is responsible and lock him up before he steps it up a notch. The person involved is obviously mentally ill or he wouldn't have done this.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
15. I hope that the person who did this is determined and investigated
Wed May 30, 2012, 12:57 PM
May 2012

This sort of sadistic behavior has an origin and it is what needs to be uncovered.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
17. I do not wish prison rape on the vile piece of human excrement who tortured that poor, poor dog
Wed May 30, 2012, 06:09 PM
May 2012

Because mere rape is not enough. Not even close to enough.I do hope he has dog lovers as cell mates. I will personally sneak them knives, given the opportunity.

it makes me hope there is a hell, so such filth can spend an eternity burning in it.

I read this this morning. I have been ill ever since. I couldn't stop sobbing, with my doggies trying to comfort me, not knowing what was wrong.

I cannot begin to imagine the suffering that poor dog endured. I can only imagine what his people are going through, and will remember for the rest of their lives.

And he wagged his tail every time she touched him....

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