Dog shot Kansas City, MO (US) Incident Date: Thursday, May 11, 2006 County: Jackson Local Map: available Disposition: Open Suspect(s) Unknown - We need your help!

Case ID: 8555 Classification: Shooting Animal: dog (non pit-bull) View more cases in MO (US) Animal was offleash or loose Login to Watch this Case

Keishya Dickerson decided last summer to get a dog for her son Christopher, 8. "He's an only child," she told me. "He needed a friend." That friend was Bubbles, a bouncy Lab/Shar-pei puppy from Wayside Waifs they took home to 70th & Ewing. So it was sad when Bubbles got loose yesterday and encountered a neighbor who felt threatened.

The neighbor, retired Kansas City PO Ron Harden, called Animal Control, then came back outside and shot Bubbles. Harden told me he was mowing his lawn when Bubbles surprised him and appeared to be vicious. He thought the dog was a pit bull, he said. When he came back outside with his gun, Bubbles trapped him in his truck. He exited and fired. "I understand about people and their pets," he said. "But he had no business up in here attacking us." An Animal Control officer took the dog to veterinarian Heath Rose. "The bullet pierced her lung, liver and spinal court and shattered her back," Rose told me. Bubbles' microchip couldn't save her. She had to be put down.

A police sergeant told the family the only crime was their dog running loose. But Jallow filed an animal cruelty complaint today as soon as the office opened. There'll be a court date.

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The Kansas City Star - May 12, 2006

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