Dog Killers
 

Tough to believe people like this exist.

DOWNE TWP. — Three dogs have died after eating tainted meat left along trails in the Dividing Creek area.

The latest victim was Joan Jardel’s 5-year-old golden retriever.

On the morning of Feb. 10, Jardel said she was walking her dog, Raymond, on one of the many paths through the area at Dragston Road and James Moore Road, near where the old Tom’s Bridge Road, now closed, cuts off.

“He started to grab something and eat it and I yelled at him, but he just gulped it down. In five minutes he was convulsing and foaming at the mouth,” she said. The dog had eaten part of a raw meatball left along the path.

“He convulsed, and shook and foamed at the mouth and he couldn‘t breathe,” Jardel said.

Raymond was dead before she could get him into the car and to the animal hospital in Millville.

She said the Cumberland County SPCA and the state Division of Fish and Wildlife are trying to find out what the poison was, but so far, no luck. An analysis is possible because another citizen found an uneaten meatball, about the size of a tennis ball, which was right in the middle of a trail.

“They have ruled out strychnine and cyanide,” she said.

Jardel said one minute she was admiring how her dog, an 85-pound retriever, was having such a good time and how beautiful he was, with the sun shining on his golden coat, and the next he was dying.

The day after she lost her dog, two more dogs, a lab and a lab-chow mix, suffered a similar fate in the same area, Jardel said.

Anyone who has any information about what the poison could be or who is leaving it out for animals to consume and die such a horrible death is asked to contact the SPCA at (856) 691-1500.

http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.s...ave_three.html

Serial killers often start with domestic animals....sick SOB's!

I'm sure this is not a result of a serial killer but rather some lazy, too fat to bend down, pet owners who off their own property have no regard much less responsiblility for their pets shiat.

So Dell finds some justification for a sick bastard poisoning random pets walking along a public hiking rail.

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damn Muslims

I'm not justifying it in anyway. I just think serial killer is a leap.

dogs dont die instantly from eating dog poop.

Luckovich is the biggest flaming libtard in Atlanta.

You say that like it's a bad thing :D

Where did you read/hear that it was a public hiking trail?


They reported it on the news as private property. They said authorities questioned the owner of the land but was cleared. I can definitely see a case in which the owner of the property became upset over the amount of dog $hit on his land and decided to do something about it, albeit the wrong way.

I didn't see that. That would be worse for the owner of the land, then (although you say he's cleared - but now he's stuck as it's still his land, making him always legally tied to the case) because most states have even more strict laws regarding setting out of poison, what poisons can be used, baiting carcasses and traps, to kill feral things; and the responsibility to keep that from killing things you do not want to (even on your own land). So if some loser had access to his land to set out poisons, that's not very good for the owner, either.

States laws differ, of course. I know of two cases in Kentucky where owners set poisoning traps (both used antifreeze) out on their own suburban land (their backyards) to kill free roaming dogs and cats that were coming onto their property. One went to jail, one paid big fines. Not something you can do on a whim. When we hunt out west on private land (with permission), you have to be careful of the dogs as they will lace carcasses with different (legal) poisons to kill coyotes.

But there are poisons they can't use (yes, there are laws). The case in discussion reminds me of a poison that's no longer legally available - some farmers still have some left over in sheds.