Dog shot with shotgun, dies
Lordstown, OH (US)Incident Date: Thursday, Aug 26, 2010
County: Trumbull
Disposition: Open
Suspect(s) Unknown - We need your help!
A Selkirk Bush Road woman lost a five-year member of her family to a shotgun wound Thursday, and suspects a neighbor shot him.
Liz Kiss-Bahrey, of 2987 Selkirk Bush Road, was washing her windows Thursday when she realized her five-year-old German Shorthaired Pointer had wandered off. She drove up and down her street twice before she decided to walk through the woods in her backyard.
That's when she says she saw her dog slowly walking toward her, bleeding from his head, eyes, ear and leg. He had been riddled by pellets from an apparent shotgun blast.
Dufus, after surgery to remove the pellets from his leg and lung, died on his way home from the animal hospital Friday after being stabilized by a veterinarian.
A Lordstown police dispatcher said their officers did respond to a call to the residence Thursday but the report was not finalized and not yet public record. Calls to the captain who was on scene and the police chief were not immediately returned.
Kiss-Bahrey said she is unsure if charges will be brought or if officers are investigating.
''My mind is really screwed up right now,'' she said. ''I never thought, I mean you always lose your pets but ... ''
Kiss-Bahrey said she believes she knows who is responsible for her dog's shooting because a neighbor had threatened to shoot the animal last year when Dufus wandered onto his property.
''I don't know how you can shoot an animal, especially someone's pet and just be okay with it,'' Kiss-Bahrey said.
She said after she rushed her dog to the Newton Falls Animal Hospital, the veterinarians stabilized Dufus Thursday and kept him at the hospital overnight. Xrays showed buckshot in the dogs leg and lung.
''Thursday night was strange because he always sleeps in my bed. He usually takes up the whole bed,'' Kiss-Bahrey said. ''Friday at 9 a.m., the doctor calls me from the vet and told me he's ready to come home, that he went outside and pee'd and they got all the buckshot out they could. I thought to myself, Thank you God."
She said, after Dufus was loaded into her truck, she drove about two miles and turned into an Arby's to buy Dufus his favorite treat, roast beef. She was petting him and telling him how much she and her husband loved him when he yelped loudly and collapsed.
Kiss-Bahrey wisked the dog back to the hospital. The veterinarian met her in the parking lot, but it was too late to save the dog.
Now, Kiss-Bahrey is unsure what to do. She said she contacted Rescue Inc., a non-profit organization that, on its website, said it focuses on ''taking action against animal abusers and neglect cases.''
A former alcohol abuser, Kiss-Bahrey said she thought about drinking for the first time in five years Friday, but refrained. She said she has barely eaten in two days.
"I don't know how to explain it," she said. "I just thank God, He gave us five years with him. That's all I can do." References |
