Update August 21, 2013 10:35 a.m:Since the District Attorney‘s office is considering an appeal, the petition asking for the maximum sentence (link is below) has been reopened for signatures.
In April, 2012, an 18-year-old man was arrested and charged with animal cruelty.Darius Ewing poured lighter fluid on a four-month-old puppy, then flicked a lit cigarette at him. The police report stated that a group of people watched and laughed as Ewing threw his lit cigarette at the dog.
Darius Ewing
The Labrador puppy suffered from third degree burns on more than 70 percent of his body. His poor little body could not handle it, and ten days after being set on fire, the puppy died.
The puppy was named “Justice” by his rescuers, DFW Rescue Me, since that is what they hoped he would get.
But that does not seem to be the case.
The man who lit Justice on fire, Darius Ewing, pleaded guilty to one count of felony animal cruelty. Ewingentered a plea on Tuesday, agreeing to a five-year sentence. The judge on the case, Larry Mitchell, reduced his sentence to two years. WFFA.comreports that the judge “lowered it to two years, saying prosecutors failed to prove that a ‘deadly weapon’ was used.”
Three others also pleaded guilty to one count each of felony animal cruelty. Darius Carey, 25, was sentenced to two years in jail. Richard Valentine, 25, and Adrian Ayers, 21, each received 15 months in jail.
Ayers, Carey, Ewing
In Texas, State Jail Felonies are punishable with a fine of up to $10,000 and/or a jail sentence of up to 10 years.
Jonnie England of the Texas Humane Alliance says all who were present for sentencing in the courtroom were shocked. “There was just no justice for Justice here today,” England said.
Prosecutors are considering an appeal for Ewing’s case.
Animal advocate group Hand4Paws wrote a petition asking that Darius Ewing receive the maximum sentence. The petition received over 37,000 signatures. The petition was sent to the judge on the case, Larry Mitchell.
“I don’t think any kind of treatment can help here, aside from chopping his dick off!!. After so many repeated rapes on animals, how long before he turns his attention to children? He is a threat & should be locked away in either a jail or mental home; just get him off the streets!!
Cirilo Castillo has been charged with 2 counts of trespassing and 2 counts of animal cruelty. Credits: The Houston Chronicle/ Hildago County Sheriff‘s Office
According to the Monitor.com, Castillowas released from jail on June 25 forpublic lewdness and having sexwith the mare named Nadia.
On June 28, he was caught on a video surveillance camera having sex with the same horse again.
A previous record shows another arrest in January 2012 for similar allegations.
The Houston Chronicle statesHidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino describes Castillo as a laborer with prior arrests for theft and possession of marijuana. The Sheriff stated:
“The guy is practically harmless, except for the horse. I can’t just ignore this and allow it to keep happening.”
The Sheriff is hoping Justice of the Peace Bobby Contreras will order Castillo to get treatment. Bond was set at $35,000.
PLEASE PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER – LET’S FIND THE BASTARD WHO DID THIS….PLEASE CONTACT THE POLICE IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THIS DOG. IF ANYONE CAN SPARE $2 DOLLARS TO HELP PAY HIS VET’S BILLS, IT WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. If you can’t, don’t worry, your prayers are just as valuable!!Thank you
“WTF…WHY, why would anyone do such a thing? Dear God, I am shaking with rage whilst tears run down my face both in sadness & anger. Such a beautiful dog…who ever did this needs a taste of his own medicine…sick, heartless, cold, evil FXXXXXG BASTARDS!! Watch the video below, look into Bucks face & eyes, imagine how much pain he must be in; yet he all he wants is a cuddle!!.
Buck, shot several times, tied up in a bag & left for dead!!
Someone shot the dog several times in the face with a shotgun, tied it up in a garbage bag and left it for dead.
Someone spotted the trash bag moving on Bulldog Lane in Conroe Saturday morning. They ripped it open and the bloody dog stumbled out and collapsed.
Tami Augustyn took the dog to an emergency clinic where veterinarians discovered buckshot lodged in both eyes, his mouth, gums, shoulders and neck.
They’re calling the mixed breed dog Buck and say he’s making a remarkable recovery.
Vets say Buck’s prognosis is good, but the injuries to his eyes may cause permanent blindness.
This isn’t the first time Augustyn has rescued a dog in trouble.
“Dogs love unconditionally. You’ll never find anyone or anything that loves you like a dog. Why would you injure something like that? I don’t understand,” she told Montgomery County Police Reporter Scott Engle.
Augustyn said Buck’s medical bills will likely top $5,000 and she’s trying to raise money to help pay for them.
A Facebook page has been set up for donations and to follow Buck’s progress.
010613 DOG SHOT , TIED IN TRASH BAG TIED TO FENCE LEFT FOR DEAD
Published on 6 Jan 2013
Story shortly, a dog is found in the Conroe area in a trash bag tied to a fence and shot. Left for dead in near freezing temperatures.
A dog has been found sealed up in a contractor’s garbage bag after being shot with a shotgun in the face and left to die.
A good Samaritan, Tami Augustyn, was notified by a friend that a dog had been tied up in a garbage bag and left to die along Bulldog Lane in Conroe, Texas. Tami immediately picked up the severely wounded dog and took him to Animal Emergency Clinic in Conroe, Texas where the dog is being evaluated and stabilized until they close on Monday, January 7th at 8am in which he will be transported to another vet. Under initial evaluation, the dog has been shot in the face, including in both eyes and inside his mouth, with birdshot fragments. This has left the dog either temporarily or permanently blind and will require a specialist to evaluate his eyes. The dog also needs x-rays of his hind legs to determine why he can’t walk.
The dog is affectionately being referred to as “Buck” after Buckshot. A Facebook page “Buck Needs Bucks for his Buckshot Injuries” has been created to follow his prognosis and documenting pictures of his wounds and medical bills. https://www.facebook.com/Buckneedsbucks(Lots of updates here)
Medical costs are increasing rapidly to save this dog (currently estimated at over $3,000) and Tami is asking people to donate by either call Animal Emergency Clinic at 936.539.3800 or via Paypal to TamiAugustyn@hotmail.com.
The U.S. attorney in southern Texas charged Ashley Nicole Richards, 22, and Brent Justice, 51,who are already facing state animal cruelty charges, with producing eight videos that allegedly involve the torture and killing of puppies, chickens and kittens, according a release from the federal prosecutor’s office. Richards and Justiceface five counts of animal crush charges and two obscenity charges.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office of Southern Texasconfirmed the Houston case is the first in the nation brought under the revised law.
In April 2010, the Supreme Court decided 8-1 in U.S. v. Stevens to strike down Section 48 of Title 18 ofU.S. Codeas unconstitutional.
The code,Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the opinion of the court, penalized “anyone who knowingly ‘creates, sells, or possesses a depiction of animal cruelty,’ if done ‘for commercial gain’ in interstate or foreign commerce.”
That case involved a man who sold videos of dogfighting and of dogs attacking other animals. He challenged his indictment on the grounds that Section 48 violated the First Amendment.
Though the government argued the code was necessary for cases of “animal crush” and animal fighting videos, the court held “a law may be invalidated as overboard if ‘a substantial number of its applications are unconstitutional.’” The court, therefore, did not discuss whether animalcrush videoswere a special case that could warrant an exception to the First Amendment.
“We … need not and do not decide whether a statute limited to crush videos or other depictions of extreme animal cruelty would be constitutional,” Roberts wrote for the court.
The court invalidated the law altogether as overboard, prompting Congress in September of that year to pass the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010, which specifically prohibited animal crush videos and defined them as “any photograph, motion picture, film, video or digital recording, or electronic image that:
(1) depicts actual conduct in which one or more living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians is intentionally crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury;
(2) is obscene.
The “and obscene” provision would be key if the statute were challenged anew, said First Amendment expert and University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone.
“[Congress] passed this very complicated law that does not add anything to the scope of what is criminal,” Stone told POLITICO. “So as long as we stipulate that the material has to be obscene to be prosecuted under the statute, then why don’t you just prosecute you under the obscenity statute?”
The reference to obscenity also appears to limit the statute’s application in several ways, including limiting it to videos that are sexual in nature.
Stone believes that if the case were to be brought to the highest court, the question at issue would be whether there is a legitimate reason to distinguish this type of obscenityfrom others.
With free speech restrictions, the government cannot constitutionally pick and choose what type of speech to restrict based solely on its content, as established in the hate speech caseR.A.V. v. City of St. Paul.
Stone compares the animal crush statute to a law creating higher penalties for purveyors of homosexual obscenity as opposed to non-homosexual obscenity – the government in both cases would need to show why the distinction serves a societal necessity.
Stone said in defence of the law, as in the comparable issue of child pornography, sometimes the government punishes selling depictions of something cruel to take away the incentive for individuals to commit the cruelty in order to profit off of it.
The animal crush statute carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison; the obscenity statute carries up to five.
“OMG…Can’t see for tears!!. That’s it, not posting any more tonight in honour of Leah…I was only writing about her the other day, cried then too, due to the fire–fighters efforts to keep her alive! The fire-fighters worked so hard & seemed to get her breathing again, I can’t begin to imagine their grief, along with the family’s!”
“My heart is heavy with pain, I don’t even know the dog, but I get attached just through writing about them! But, its time for Leah to run free & wild just like she did when she was a puppy. Once over Rainbow’s Bridge, she will have no pain, only pleasure & she will see all your friends too. Plus when it’s time her family will be re-united with her, for lots of cuddles…God Bless you sweet heart, you will be missed by so many & never forgotten, especially by the fire-fighters that tried to save you…I bet their shedding tears too! R.I.P Leah xxx”
The heart-warming tale of a dog rescued by Arlington, Texas fire-fighters has turned tragic.
According to Wednesday’s publication ofWFAA News, the dog, named “Leah,” who was saved from a fire thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of fire-fighters, has since passed away.
Initially, the prognosis for the dog’s recovery was promising.
Fire-fighters worked for an hour to revive the dog who was trapped inside of a house which was engulfed in flames.
But the damage to the dog’s body proved too much and she died on Sunday as a result.
Another pet, a cat, also died in the devastating blaze.
Those who learned of the fire-fighters efforts were touched by their compassion and dedication to the ailing dog – Leah’s untimely death does not take away from their heroic efforts.
“I have so much admiration for these fire fighters, not just because they save people, but they risk their own lives to do so!. Happily on this occasion’s all fire fighters were safe, but the family dog, left in the burning house was not. That is until these guys did their all…for a dog….their motto should be ‘If it breath’s, it leaves’…sadly the cat didn’t make it but I’m sure the owners will be overjoyed that those fire-fighters fought for their dog, Leah‘s life too! God bless & keep them all safe! Sorry you will have to follow the link below to see the video, but it’s worth it!
It was a miraculous rescue, out of a burning house came a fire-fighter with a limp dog in his arms. But these well prepared fire-fighters do not give up easily, and after an hour of life saving effort, they were rewarded when Leah raised her head. The fire, which struck a home in Arlington Texas when the owner was not home, was being battled the whole time rescuers were attempting to revive the poor pooch who had been trapped inside.
It wasn’t easy, ”They went through five bottles of oxygen on her, probably three- to four breathing treatments, the same treatment we administer to humans,” said Arlington Fire Department spokesman Lt. Kevin Seeton.
However every battalion chief’s car and on every ladder truck s equipped with a pet oxygen mask, which proved vital in saving Leah. No one ever gave up, petting her and coaxing back, even giving her a gentle poke in the eye, to which she blinked, giving them continued hope.
“It’s a great feeling to see these big, burly fire-fighters all gathered around working on a small dog, trying to get it back to life,” said Seeton. Sadly, it was not all good news as the family cat unfortunately did not survive the blaze. But seeing Leah recover eased the heartbreak for the fire-fighters and for Leah’s owner. Leah is expected to make a full recovery.
Police in Flower Mound, TX, responded late Monday night, October 1, to calls from local residents that dozens of Maltese-type dogs were loose along a country road near Highway 377 and Stonecrest Road.
Officers rounded up 51 of the frightened little dogs in about an hour, according to NBCNews.com. Some of them were so badly matted they could barely walk.
Tuesday night, 41 more dogs–mostly Cavalier King spaniels–were found abandoned along a rural road near Sanger, about 34 miles north of Flower Mound.
The Humane Society of North Texasbelieves the cases are related. Flower Mound Police Captain Richard Brooks and humane society officials suspect these despicable acts were done by operators of an illegal puppy mill who no longer want to breed the animals after new legislation tightening breeding regulations was passed last month.
“Unfortunately, there are a few of these really bad breeders who know they’re not going to pass inspections and are trying to get out of the business fast,” said Peggy Brown, coordinator of community outreach and education for the Humane Society of North Texas.
The dogs rescued in Flower Mound are being housed in the city’s animal shelter. All of the animals were filthy and appeared to have lived in inhumane conditions but otherwise seem to be healthy.
City animal control officers say they have heard reports of similar dumps elsewhere in the state. It appears to be a tragic side effect ofnew regulationsdesigned to protect the dogs in the breeding industry, comments the Dallas Daily News.
“Unfortunately, with a lot of these puppy mill dogs, their feet may have never touched the ground,” Peggy Brown said. “They could have spent their whole lives in cages.”
Volunteers have been bathing and grooming the dogs for cleanliness and also to relieve the discomfort of those with tightly matted fur, which can be very painful. They will be placed up for adoption next week unless the owner claims them.
“It’s really heartbreaking,” Brown said. “Hopefully, we can change their lot in life and give them a better future than their past has been.”
ABANDONING ANIMALS IS A CRIME!
The Humane Society of North Texas in Forth Worth is offering a $500 reward for information on who dumped the 92 dogs along these country roads in Denton County Monday and Tuesday nights. They can be contacted at 817-332-HSNT.
Flower Mound Police Department is conducting an animal-cruelty investigation and asking for help from the public.
If anyone has information regarding the dumping of the dogs, they are asked to call the Flower Mound Police Department at 972-539-0525 or call CrimeStoppers, anonymously, at 972-874-3307.
Hope, a pug mix that was found badly abused in Texas in July, is recovering well with her new family the Moncriefs.
Not only is Hope living a happy life now, she and the Moncriefs are helping other dogs in need.
Hope as she is now
Hope was found in July with electrical tape wrapped around her snout and her tongue swollen and protruding out of her mouth. Her new owner Kit Moncrief recalls Kit’s condition, “I saw her at the vet the week they brought her in, and I was horrified. I mean, number one, her nose was terrible, and you could see the bone in her nose.
She was cut – literally somebody tried to cut, with a hatchet or an ax, cut her head off – she had a hundred and some odd stitches all around her head.” The search still continues for whoever is responsible for her torture. A $35,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest.
Although the search continues for Hope’s abuser, Hope continues to get better and adjust to her new Life.
Hope when she was found
The Moncriefs along with other have started The Saving Hope Foundation, a non-profit organization created in honor of animals like Hope.
The organization’s main goal is to help end animal euthanasia in shelters in America by helping people afford their pets and not surrender them.
Hope is now not only recovering and doing well, but helping other dogs in need.
The Moncrief’s brought her to Wag pet boutique in Fort Worth, Texas on Thursday for a “Meet Hope” event, which included three rescue groups on site with adoptable pets. Nearly 50 people packed the boutique to see Hope, including the animal control officers who rescued her and the veterinarian who workedon her, Rhonda Sears.
Hope and Sears had a joyous reunion, as Hope jumped onto Sears giving her hugs and kisses. Although Hope was the worst case Sears had seen in her 13 years as a vet, now she sees Hope is very happy, “Look at her now! She’s a good girl, and got the light in her eyes,” Sears said.
Hope seems to be settling in well at her new home with the Moncriefs. “She’s just come to our house like she’s always belonged there,” Moncrief said. Tons of people applied to adopt Hope, and the Moncriefs are thankful that Hope came home with them, “She’s been a blessing to us,” she said, “You save ‘em once, and they save you a hundred times over.”
DALLAS — A rarewhite buffalo found dead in Texasdied from a bacterial infection and wasn’t killed and mutilated, as its owner suspected, authorities said Tuesday.
n this June 29, 2011 file photo, Lightning Medicine Cloud, a rare white buffalo, left, walks in a corral after a Native American naming ceremony was held in Greenville, Texas. Hunt County Sheriff Randhy Meeks on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 said the calf died from a bacterial infection and wasn’t killed and mutilated, as its owner suspected. Lightning Medicine Cloud died in May on the Lakota Ranch
Hunt County SheriffRandy Meeks said a veterinarian made the determination and that photographs indicate the calf wasn’t skinned. He said the investigation is closed unless new evidence surfaces.
The calf, named Lightning Medicine Cloud, died in May on the Lakota Ranch near Greenville, about 50 miles northeast of Dallas.
Ranch owner Arby Little Soldierreported finding the calf skinned and believed it had been killed as part of a hate crime. He didn’treturn a message seeking comment Tuesday. Meeks said Little Soldier had not been notified about the results of the investigation as of Tuesday afternoon.
As a non-albino white buffalo, the calf was revered by Native Americans. According to Lakota Sioux lore, the goddess of peace once appeared in the form of a white buffalo calf. The buffalo’s death sparked international attention, Little Soldier has said, and one Oregon organization planned to donate a white buffalo bull from its herd.
Meeks said the sheriff’s office was not notified of Lightning Medicine Cloud’s death until six days after the animal died. It had been buried for three days because Little Soldier “wanted to talk to his elders before he contacted us,” Meeks said.
Meeks said the investigation revealed two more buffalo have died at the Lakota Ranch since May. He said investigators believe blackleg, a bacterial infection, was responsible for all of the deaths.
“It lays dormant in the land,” Meeks said of the spores that cause the infection. “It’s very preventable by vaccination. We were not told by the Little Soldiers that these two had died.”
Terry Hensley, a Texas A&M extension office veterinarian, said a blackleg vaccine is available for cattle but has not been approved for buffalo. Some experts say the cattle vaccine has been effective in buffalo, Hensley said.
Animals eat the spores, or the spores enter the body through a wound. The spores, a small number of which are usually found in an animal’s digestive tract, can lay dormant inside the animal’s muscles, and break out months or years later. The bacteria become activated by quick growth or muscle exertion.
“Normally they’re healthy one day and the rancher finds them dead the next,” Hensley said.
Lightning Medicine Cloud’s motherBuffalo Woman was found dead a day after the white buffalo’s death. Little Soldier has said he believes she was poisoned. Meeks said he could not comment on the mother’s death.
Little Soldier had offered a $45,000 reward for information about the animal’s death.
Meeks said no charges will be filed against Little Soldier.
” I have long been an admirer of Marc Bekoff & think he is one of the most brilliant minds when it comes to the behaviour & moral conduct of animals. I have asked for his opinion on several things, recently, Tony the truck stop tiger & was pleased to hear that he agreed with the majority; that keeping a lone tiger in such an environment is wrong on so many levels! Keeping exotic animals as pets is wrong, hence the post below. Read it, then listen to the audio video below, one of Marc Bekoffs & Jessica Pierce called ‘Wild Justice‘…makes you really think about animals & their capabilities!!
Wild animals are dangerous and should not be kept as pets. Consider the tragic story of C.J. and Buddy, two chimpanzees who lived in a home in Nevada. When discussing the need for regulations on the private possession of exotic pets in Nevada or elsewhere, it’s important to see the jungle for the trees.
C.J. and Buddy, the two chimpanzees who escaped from a residential Clark County neighbourhood in July, were treated as pets, but were and always remained highly sentient wild animals. In a natural situation, chimpanzees typically remain with their mothers, nursing, playing with siblings, and learning to forage until they are about 8 years old. A mother chimpanzee in the wild patiently teaches her young vital skills such as hunting, foraging, and using tools, as well as the subtleties of their community’s culture.
But the story of C.J. and Buddy followed a drastically different course: Born at a chimpanzee breeding facility in Texas, ripped from their mothers and sold shortly after birth, dressed in baby clothes and pampered as virtual children, C.J. and Buddy were propped up in front of cameras and thrust into the spotlight, and then, too powerful to handle after just a few years, eventually locked away in a backyard cage. Such treatment would drive a person mad and it drives a chimpanzee bonkers. We know that chimpanzees (see also) and other animals suffer from a wide variety of mood and anxiety disorders (see alsoand).
When you understand that an adult chimpanzee is many times stronger than any human and has the capability to crush bones with his jaws, you see the animal the Clark County officer was forced to shoot dead that fateful July morning when C.J. and Buddy ran amok. C.J.’s life was undoubtedly shattered as she watched Buddy, the only companion she had ever had, die, and it is because of thistraumathat she likely acted out again, escaping two more times following her escape with Buddy.
Yet, it is only because of this tragedy that C.J.’s luck turned around, and she is headed to a sanctuary where she will make new friends in a more suitableenvironment. It’s the best outcome for her, but it’s a very rare outcome for most pet primates who are cast into roles as surrogate children or household pets. When pet primates reach sexual maturity and begin powerfully acting out many are locked away in a backyard or basement cages, dumped at shoddy roadside zoos, pseudo-sanctuaries, backyard menageries, or breeding facilities. These sentient, emotional, and intelligent animals, who can live to be 60 years old, often spend those years wasting away in a cage, slowly losing their minds. Others, seeking an escape from the profound and relentless boredom, make a mad dash for freedom, which, as was the case for Buddy, almost always ends badly.
And chimpanzees are not the only primates kept as pets who are capable of inflicting serious injuries; smaller primates also pose a significant danger. Even those individuals who have been subjected to painful tooth extractions can inflict serious bruising and break skin, and they can all spread parasitic, bacteria,l and viral infections. Macaque monkeys, popular in the pet trade, naturally carry the Herpes B virus that is often fatal to humans. Health risks are so serious that people in Canada who work with primates are not allowed to donate blood for fear of spreading known and unknown diseases.
There have been hundreds of dangerous incidents involving captive primates, many kept as pets, including the tragic story of the Connecticut woman (see also) whose face was torn off by her friend’s pet chimpanzee named Travis. Scores of children have been injured by pet monkeys, many requiring hospital treatment while worried parents wait to hear from doctors if they’ve contracted any infectious diseases.
Travis was not a “domesticated chimpanzee” as a story published by the AP called him. This is a complete misrepresentation of who he was. Travis was accustomed to drinking wine and using a WaterPik to brush his teeth and while this may sound “cute“, asking a chimpanzee to do these things is an insult to who they are. In response to this story I noted that domestication is an evolutionary process that results in animals such as our companion dogs and cats who undergo substantial behavioural, anatomical, physiological, and genetic changes during the process. Travis was a socialized chimpanzee who usually got along with humans but not a domesticated being. He still had his wild genes just as do wolves, cougars, and bears who live with humans, and tragedies occur because these are wild animals despite that they’re treated as if they’re humans. To say there was no known provocation is to ignore this basic fact. Wild animals do not belong in human homes, they can be highly unpredictable (consider other attacks by famous animals on their handlers), and they should be allowed to live at sanctuaries that are dedicated to respecting their lives while minimizing human contact.
The Ohio Exotic Animal Massacre
Let’s not forget the massacre of exotic animals in Ohio who were released right before the man who lived with them killed himself. It took a public disaster and embarrassment over a lack of policy to awaken Ohio lawmakers. At the time the animals were released and killed, Ohio had no regulations concerning the keeping of exotic animals as pets but now they do.
Unfortunately, Nevada has set itself up for situations like the Clark County escape and even worse scenarios. Without restrictions regarding the private possession of dangerous wild animals, law enforcement officers will never know if their day will involve holding off a rampaging gunman or trying to stop a neurotic ape. Maybe the Clark County incident will help serve as an impetus for change.
As one of only six states in the nation without restrictions for private ownership of exotic animals, Nevada lawmakers are playing Russian roulette with public safety, and a pet chimpanzee might as well be holding the trigger.
A sample of the audiobook edition of Wild Justice; The Moral Lives of Animals, written by Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, narrated by Simon Vance, and produced by University Press Audiobooks. More information about this audiobook is available here:http://universitypressaudiobooks.com/detail.php/109
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