A mixed Breed Labrador named Blue was stabbed and beaten to death while chained to his doghouse at the junkyard he called home. The junkyard had been burglarized and the cash drawer as well as $20 in change was stolen. Police discovered a white thread between Blue's teeth that may help solve the crime. The burglar made a getaway by climbing onto a parked car to jump over the junkyard fence, according to a search warrant filed Tuesday in Roanoke Circuit Court. Officers found blood and shoe prints on the vehicle, the document said. The search warrant names Otis Larry Whorley III, 26, of Roanoke, as a suspect in the burglary and in Blue's killing. No one has been charged. Whorley was treated for a dog bite at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital Thursday morning, the search warrant said. He claims a pit bull attacked him while walking home from his girlfriend’s house. Blue was laid to rest in the junkyard.
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In Syracuse, New York, Peggy, the pit bull mix recovering from injuries received during a four-story fall from a Syracuse apartment building, is being given up for adoption by her owner, officials said. Finding her a new home shouldn’t be any problem seeing as the hospital handling the adoption has received 100 applications; they refuse to accept anymore. The dog is doing well, but hospital officials want to give her more time to recover before letting her move into a new home where she will have to meet new people and, perhaps, new fellow pets, Wilcox said. He said an announcement about her future might come next week.
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In Cyprus, a ten-year-old Paphos boy was mauled yesterday by a pedigree dog, which jumped out of the yard of a house in the village of Emba to attack the child, one of a group of youngsters playing in the street outside. Police spokesperson Nicos Tsappis told the Cyprus Mail: “The dog is a Japanese Akita, which is a pedigree breed and is two-and-a-half years of age. It attacked the boy and bit him on his face.” I just love how they choose to use the term “pedigree dog.” The 32-year-old owner of the dog, Chrystos Chrystou, was called into the local police station, where he was informed of the incident, given a caution, and released.
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The pit bull that took part of three attacks inside Golden Gate Park will likely be put down. Nobody has claimed him or the female dog said to have been with the male dog during the attacls. In all likelihood, the pit bull will be euthanized after Sunday, a police official with the department’s vicious and dangerous animals unit said.
Dog survives being thrown from fourth floor of Syracuse building
Published: Friday, June 25, 2010, 4:06 PM Updated: Friday, June 25, 2010, 4:11 PM
Robert A. Baker / The Post-Standard
Syracuse, NY -- A dog was thrown out a fourth-floor window on Syracuse’s Eastside this morning and police are trying to find the person responsible.
About 7:30 a.m., construction workers saw the dog get thrown from a window at 1809 E. Fayette St., Sgt. Tom Connellan said. The dog, a pit bull mix about 1 year old, suffered multiple injuries when it landed, including two broken back legs, broken ribs and internal injuries, Connellan said. When police arrived at the apartment the dog was thrown from, there was no one there, Connellan said. Connellan was unsure if the dog had tags. Police have some leads on who might have thrown the dog and the investigation is continuing. The dog was originally taken to a Bridge Street veterinarian but was transferred to the DeWitt Animal Hospital. A woman who answered the phones at DeWitt Animal Hospital said she was instructed by police not to give out any information.
Ricky Coleman, 20, was charged with aggravated animal cruelty, a felony, and criminal trespass in connection with the incident, Sgt. Tom Connellan said. “This was the result of a domestic dispute, he and his girlfriend, and he ended up throwing her dog out the fourth-floor window,” Connellan said.
The incident was witnessed about 7:30 a.m. Friday by construction workers.
Coleman was charged later that day and arraigned by City Judge James Cecile, who set bail and ordered Coleman held at the Justice Center Jail on $10,000 bail pending a preliminary hearing Wednesday, jail officials said. He remained in custody as of noon today, they said.
Ricky Coleman
The dog, a female pit bull mix about a year old, is in stable condition at DeWitt Animal Hospital, recovering from broken bones and internal injuries. A hospital official said the dog, dubbed “Peggy” by staff, needs surgery on broken front and back legs by a board certified veterinary orthopedist to avoid needing to amputate the rear leg. The operation alone is expected to cost $3,000, she said.
Vet raises $3,000 for surgery for dog dropped from window
Published: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 8:44 AM Updated: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 9:14 AM
John Mariani / The Post-Standard
Michelle Gabel / The Post-StandardCory Smith, a veterinary assistant at DeWitt Animal Hospital, sits Monday with Peggy, a pit bull mix, who survived being thrown out a fourth-floor window in Syracuse.
DeWitt, NY – Less than 24 hours after an appeal went out to help her, an abused pit bull mix dubbed “Peggy” has the money she needs for surgery to repair her broken rear leg.
Officials of DeWitt Animal Hospital, which received Peggy on Friday after she was thrown from the fourth floor of a Syracuse apartment building, called The Post-Standard at 8:30 a.m. to say they had reached their goal of raising $3,000 for the surgery and are no longer taking donations on Peggy’s behalf. Anyone who still wishes to donate can contribute toward the upkeep of strays in the hospital’s care, officials said.
Syracuse police announced about noon Monday that they had charged Ricky Coleman, 20, with aggravated animal cruelty, a felony, and criminal trespass after he allegedly argued with his girlfriend and dropped her dog from a window at an apartment building at 1809 E. Fayette St.
At the same time, DeWitt Animal Hospital officials disclosed that Peggy needed surgery by a veterinary orthopedic specialist and could lose the leg if she did not get it. The disclosure unleashed donations from “many, many people,” a hospital official said. The operation is scheduled for Wednesday.
That is so awesome that people cared that much to help a dog they didn’t even know. There are still some kind people in this world. -----------------------
Peggy the pit bull recovering from surgery
Published: Thursday, July 01, 2010, 8:33 AM Updated: Thursday, July 01, 2010, 9:01 AM
The dog, whose plight tugged the heartstrings and purse strings of Central New Yorkers, is recovering at the clinic of the surgeon who performed the operation, said Stephanie Ingram, a receptionist at DeWitt Animal Hospital. Officials of the hospital, which has been caring for Peggy since Friday, are withholding the name and location of the surgeon at the surgeon’s request.
Syracuse police say Peggy was thrown from a fourth-floor window of an East Fayette Street apartment building by a man who had gotten into an argument with his girlfriend, the dog’s owner. On Monday, police announced they had charged Ricky Coleman, 20, with aggravated animal cruelty, a felony, and criminal trespass.
Officials at the animal hospital said the same day that the dog, which they dubbed Peggy, would need an operation costing $3,000 to avoid losing her damaged hind leg. Some $5,000 in donations has poured in, Ingram said this morning.
