FBI agent shoots Chihuahua near Waco
An FBI agent who shot and killed a Chihuahua named Sassy in front of his Texas home says he deserves probation. Amazingly, if a judge approves, that’s the sentence he’ll get. Lovett Leslie Ledger Jr.,...
View ArticleLife sentence given in killing of police dog
A man who shot and killed a police dog was sentenced to life in prison last week — not so much because he killed a police dog, but because it was his third strike, according to a report in the Seattle...
View ArticleTeen gets detention in pit bull attack
A 16-year-old girl who used a pit bull dog to attack two women in Washington state was sentenced yesterday to 14 to 17 months in juvenile detention. In the June attack, the girl and a group of boys...
View ArticleWoman sentenced for abandoning 99 dogs
A dog breeder who abandoned 99 St. Bernards to go on vacation has been sentenced to 18 weeks for animal cruelty. Mary Collis, 51, admitted to seven counts of causing unnecessary suffering to 85 dogs...
View ArticleEckhart found guilty of animal cruelty
A jury has found the former owner of Pennsylvania’s Almost Heaven kennel guilty on several counts of animal cruelty. Derbe “Skip” Eckhart was cleared on a number of other charges. The jury, which began...
View ArticleEckhart gets sentence of at least six months
Almost Heaven Kennel owner Derbe Eckhart will spend six months to nearly two years in prison for animal cruelty. According to an Associated Press report, Eckhart wept as he was sentenced Tuesday in...
View ArticleChamberlin gets his day in court
Rolled into a North Carolina courtroom in a green wagon, a pit bull mix named Chamberlin watched as one of two people accused of neglecting him so severely he’ll likely never fully recover was...
View ArticleThe Pit 6 are on the road to rehabilitation
They’re called the “Pit 6,” the scarred survivors of a group of nine pit bulls seized two years ago in an animal cruelty case that appeared to have some ties to dogfighting. This week, as the man they...
View ArticleSentencing tomorrow for killer of sled dogs
Two and a half years after the manager of a sled dog tour company shot and slashed the throats of scores of no-longer-needed huskies, he’s scheduled for sentencing in court. Bob Fawcett — who claims...
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