There are countless cases of animal abuse every day in this country. Jeff Chu sent me this URL for a web site that tracks it.
My god - look at the first entry of the ass hole that starved a police dog to death. They list his address - we should all write the ass hole amletter and tell him what a dirt bag piece of garbage he is.
I am going to put this web site on an article on our web site - so there will be a permanent link to the site.
http://www.pet-abuse.com/pages/courtwatch.php
Here is the one from today - the site is filled with these:
Upcoming Court Dates:
» Monday, Aug 17, 2009: pretrial hearing
A local man employed as an MBTA Transit Police K9 officer was arrested last week and charged with animal cruelty after a family dog was found dead of starvation at his Rochester home.
Antonio Carneiro, 43, of 373 County Road, is charged with one count of animal cruelty in connection with the starvation of Nitro, a 6-year-old Belgian Malinois breed dog, found dead in an isolated outside cage on Carneiro's property. Carneiro has been employed by the MBTA Transit Police Department for 13 years, the last two of which as a K9 officer. He has been suspended by the MBTA pending an investigation
When the dog's emaciated body was found in January 2009, it weighed just 25 pounds. The breed averages about 65 pounds at maturity. An autopsy conducted at Tufts University Veterinary Hospital Pathology Department in Grafton confirmed that the cause of death for Nitro was starvation.
"It's very disheartening, very disheartening," Rochester Police Chief Paul Magee said. His department was involved with the investigation.
Rochester Animal Control Officer Anne Estabrook received a report of a dead dog at Carneiro's address in January. Because the town animal control officer is under the jurisdiction of the Rochester Police Department, town police also investigated. After viewing the dead dog at Carneiro's property and removing its body, investigating Rochester Police Officer Donald Kemmett called the Animal Rescue League of Boston's Law Enforcement Department to have that agency to determine whether to bring a criminal charge against Carneiro.
An autopsy was performed on Nitro Jan. 20, and it determined that "the organs all showed signs of starvation, and other than plant material, there was no food in the gastrointestinal tract." Due to the fact that there were "too many findings of starvation to list," pathologists turned over the entire autopsy report to law enforcement authorities.
Animal Rescue League of Boston police went to Carneiro's home Feb. 26 and arrested him on one count of animal cruelty.
In his report, Animal Rescue League of Boston Law Enforcement Officer Christopher Charbonneau said he asked Carneiro how Nitro ended up dead.
"Mr. Carneiro stated that the dog suffered from separation anxiety and wouldn't eat, and the dog's weight would go up and down," Charbonneau wrote in his legal narrative.
"I told Mr. Carneiro that it was unlikely that the dog would die from not eating due to separation anxiety. I then asked him where he kept the dog and he stated in the kennel in his rear yard. I then asked if he knew the dog suffered from separation anxiety, why would he isolate the dog in a kennel away from any human interaction, and he did not answer," Charbonneau wrote.
Charbonneau said he also asked Carneiro if he had taken Nitro to a veterinarian. He said he had, but the veterinarian Carneiro said he took the dog to had no record of the visit. The last time Nitro was to a vet was in 2003, when he was just a puppy. Nitro weighed 59 pounds at that time.
That same veterinarian has records of lethally injecting two of Carneiro's other dogs on the same day in 2006. The vet's records indicate that Carneiro said he wanted the dogs put down "due to separation anxiety, and he was going on vacation and didn't want to be responsible for the dogs to have anxiety and lose weight while he was on vacation."
Carneiro was released on personal recognizance the day of his arrest. He was arraigned in Wareham District Court July 8. He is scheduled to be back in court Aug. 17 for a pretrial hearing.
If convicted, Carneiro faces five years in a state prison, or 2 ½ years in a house of correction, a fine of not more than $2,500, or both fine and imprisonment.
Ed Frawley
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