Life “And Where Were You on the Evening of July 4, Mr. Savage?”
posted by on July 11 at 10:30 AM
From the King County Department of Animal Care and Control:
Reward offered for information on dog drowning in Cedar River. King County Animal Care and Control investigating.
King County Animal Care and Control is seeking information for its investigation into the intentional drowning death of a dog in the Cedar River on July 4. The agency responded to a citizen report of a lifeless body of a Pit Bull in the river near the Landsburg Bridge in the 25200 block of Landsburg Rd SE in Ravensdale, WA.Animal Control Officers arriving at the scene within the hour of the call found the dog anchored down in the deep, fast moving water. The Animal Control Sergeant on duty asked the Sheriff’s Department to send their dive team to recover the body, but they reported they would not be able to respond until later in the evening due to the high number of priority service calls related to the Fourth of July holiday.
Instead, later that afternoon, a fisherman pulled the dog’s body from the river and turned it over to King County Animal Care and Control (KCACC). Investigating officers discovered it was a black and white female Pit Bull with a homemade anchor tied around its neck with a rope.
The Kent shelter veterinarian on duty performed a necropsy on July 5th which found that the animal may have been alive before being submersed in the river. The dog did not have any signs of penetrating or exit wounds or any injuries typically associated with dog fighting.
“This is a horrific and tragic case,” said King County Animal Care and Control Communications Specialist Nancy McKenney. “We need more information from the community to help find those responsible for this needless death.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact King County Animal Care and Control at 206-296-3958. In addition, The Humane Society of the United States has issued a $2,500 reward for anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible. Intentionally killing an animal is a Class C Felony under the State of Washington.
The dog must have provoked it's killer. The person who drowned that dog is soooo gentle and loving and caring and great around kids. I just can't understand why they would have done this, they've never hurt a dog before...
I immediately thought the same thing when I saw the story on tv last night...
Spaying and neutering would have prevented this unwanted dog from being born, as well as reducing the chances that its parents would bite somebody. Win. Win.
And spaying and neutering saves taxpayer money. Win. Win. Win.
this makes me think of a grand scheme; kill animals and then supply information on their deaths while framing someone else for the crime.
Perhaps a guilty conscience explains Mr Savage being up all night, making Slog posts at ~4AM, the last few days.
Wait, so hunting is a Class C Felony in Washington? Good to know...
Sounds like the beginning scenes of a bad (and they are all bad) Law & Order (or in the future L&O: Animal Unit) episode (something for insomniacs to watch): A famously sassy columnist with a disdain for Pit Bulls, a beloved Pit Bull found dead in the water…
I don't care what kind of animal it was, or what breed. What a terrifying way to die.
Yes Yes, I know, another terrifying way to die would be to have your face ripped off by a Pit Bull, blablablablablaaaaaaa.
Pitbull kills man, there's no story there. Man kills pitbull -- now there's a story.
A guilty conscience needs to confess.
I have never said this before, but, um, Little Red Ryan Hood "for the win."
RYAN HOOD?
@9...are you FREAKING KIDDING ME? We see hundreds of stories ripped directly from the newspapers about Pit Bills killing/maiming humans all the time...RIGHT HERE.
Some call the cops... Pit Bull hating Dan Savage might have committed this crime!
Is there anything more cruel on the face of the earth than humans?
Accused pit bull murderer Dan Savage is entitled to a presumption of innocence until his trial and conviction, @14!
I blame Amanda Knox.
And no, I don't feel like letting it go.
At least it wasn't a pit bull.
The Pit Bull offended Natlie Merchant (which is probably pretty easy) and she drowned it with hippie-PETA hands.
@15: I think the only creature on earth more cruel than the human race is the pit bull terrier.
20: You might want to rethink that statement considering that the human race specifically bred pit bulls to be so fiercely aggressive in the first place. They didn't evolve that way on their own. Dogs have always been a loyal companion to mankind, and mankind is pretty fucking shitty at its lowest.
The dog made a squeaking noise and frightened the home made anchor.
Case closed.
Is this why Amy Kate was fired? Because she raises fighting pit bulls, and you're a well-known dog murdererer? It all makes sense to me now.
@21 evolved on their own to be like that? they were intelligently designed to be vicious.
@9 Hit the nail on the head!
this is worse than the time Chelsea Alvarez-Bell stabbed me with her Treo.
I will double the reward $$
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