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Warrants issued for pair charged with throwing dogs off bridge
Story posted 2012.11.20 at 09:54 AM EST
A couple charged with animal cruelty for leaving puppies near a bridge, two of which were dropped over it, did not appear in court today.
The magistrate in Miami County Municipal Court on Tuesday morning issued warrants for the arrests of Shonda Lee, 39, and her boyfriend Steven Bixler, 32. Both are Piqua residents.
Bixler faces four counts of abandoning animals and two counts of animal cruelty. Lee, the owner of the puppies, was cited with one count of animal cruelty by the sheriff’s department and charged by the county dog warden for failure to license the mother dog.
A deputy assigned to the Miami County Park District was on foot patrol Nov. 9 at the Farrington Reserve when she heard the puppies yipping and a car speeding away. Two of the puppies were dropped 15 feet over a Peterson Road bridge guard rail along the bank of the Great Miami River.
The other two Labs were left on the roadside.
The two puppies dropped from the bridge fell about 20 feet, according to reports. They were not injured and were put in care of the Miami County dog warden.
Both Bixler and Lee were located after a citizen called Miami County 911 Center and the Miami County Animal Shelter Saturday morning after recognizing the puppies.
The Miami County Animal Shelter, 1110 North County Road 25A, Troy, received an “overwhelming response” from people wanting to adopt one of the puppies, according to Debbie Hale, Miami County deputy chief animal control officer.
For more information on adoption at the shelter call (937) 332-6919.
Story posted 2012.11.20 at 09:54 AM EST
Sigh..... where do I even begin with this one?
I know, I'll start by taking a deep breath. *Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale.*
Ok, done. Time to rant.
Anyone that knows me knows that I'm an extreme animal lover. To the point where I really can't stand to use mouse traps in my house. I'd prefer to let my cat catch them, get them out of his mouth before he kills them (by putting his face over a bucket and making him let go), and then take them down the road and let them go.
When the birds build nests behind our outdoor lights on the deck or inside the lid to the propane tank, I check the nests all the time for babies. And once there are babies, I check the nests all the time to make sure none of them have fallen out. If so, I pick them up and put them back in their nest.
Once when I was little, I was walking to my babysitter's house up the street to go to school and I heard a wheezing noise in some tall grass. I went back to the house and got my dad. He went out there with me to look and we found a squirrel with a hole in its neck. Apparently the cat from down the street had gotten ahold of it. So instead of leaving it there, we brought it back to the house and put it in a shoebox with a little towel, put Neosporin on the wound, and wrapped it with gauze. Granted the squirrel had passed away while I was at school that day, but at least we made his last bit of time as comfy as we could.
These were PUPPIES. They weren't grown, vicious dogs that had been trained to fight or that had attacked a child... they were PUPPIES. They hadn't even had a chance to learn how to be house broken, let alone live any kind of substantial life.
My animals are as important to me as the boys are. They are a part of our family. My dog is the most spoiled animal... ever. My cat has been with me through some really hard times. They are my babies and Lord help anyone that tries to hurt them.
How in the world do people like this live with themselves every day? These people are pure evil. Their excuse was how they couldn't afford to take the puppies to a shelter... but the shelter doesn't charge anything! Maybe they should have done some research rather than making assumptions. And instead of owning up to their actions, they show their cowardly side and don't show up for court which is just going to result in more charges for them. So not only are they evil cowards, they are now fugitives. If they will do this to some poor innocent puppies, then who knows what they would be willing to do to a child!
People like this need to be rounded up and put on a deserted island and left there so they can just torture each other instead of doing harm to living things around them.
Sigh..... where do I even begin with this one?
I know, I'll start by taking a deep breath. *Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale.*
Ok, done. Time to rant.
Anyone that knows me knows that I'm an extreme animal lover. To the point where I really can't stand to use mouse traps in my house. I'd prefer to let my cat catch them, get them out of his mouth before he kills them (by putting his face over a bucket and making him let go), and then take them down the road and let them go.
When the birds build nests behind our outdoor lights on the deck or inside the lid to the propane tank, I check the nests all the time for babies. And once there are babies, I check the nests all the time to make sure none of them have fallen out. If so, I pick them up and put them back in their nest.
Once when I was little, I was walking to my babysitter's house up the street to go to school and I heard a wheezing noise in some tall grass. I went back to the house and got my dad. He went out there with me to look and we found a squirrel with a hole in its neck. Apparently the cat from down the street had gotten ahold of it. So instead of leaving it there, we brought it back to the house and put it in a shoebox with a little towel, put Neosporin on the wound, and wrapped it with gauze. Granted the squirrel had passed away while I was at school that day, but at least we made his last bit of time as comfy as we could.
These were PUPPIES. They weren't grown, vicious dogs that had been trained to fight or that had attacked a child... they were PUPPIES. They hadn't even had a chance to learn how to be house broken, let alone live any kind of substantial life.
My animals are as important to me as the boys are. They are a part of our family. My dog is the most spoiled animal... ever. My cat has been with me through some really hard times. They are my babies and Lord help anyone that tries to hurt them.
How in the world do people like this live with themselves every day? These people are pure evil. Their excuse was how they couldn't afford to take the puppies to a shelter... but the shelter doesn't charge anything! Maybe they should have done some research rather than making assumptions. And instead of owning up to their actions, they show their cowardly side and don't show up for court which is just going to result in more charges for them. So not only are they evil cowards, they are now fugitives. If they will do this to some poor innocent puppies, then who knows what they would be willing to do to a child!
People like this need to be rounded up and put on a deserted island and left there so they can just torture each other instead of doing harm to living things around them.
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