On Dec. 4, the dog was discovered at the dumpster located on Knox Avenue shortly before 9 a.m.

An animal crate was also found among the trash, and the dog was wandering by itself in the waste and scrap.

Our news partners at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report Jwanna Martin is charged with animal cruelty and neglect.

Officials say she is the one who dumped her partner’s dog.

The dog is at Humane Animal Rescue.

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A 24-year-old Ypsilanti woman was arrested with her emotional support therapy dog by her side after she allegedly tried to steal about $1,000 in merchandise from a department store and was found with tools to defeat anti-theft devices.

The incident occurred at about 3 p.m. Nov. 25 at Walmart, 23800 Allen Road, in Woodhaven.

According to a police report, the woman was seen inside the store with the dog as she selected an all-in-one computer and numerous phone sockets.

She put them in her shopping cart with numerous other items.

While at the garden center she picked up a Santa hat from a display and allegedly concealed it in her backpack.

The report said a loss prevention officer kept an eye on her because many of the items she selected were “high theft items.”

She then, according to the report, attempted to leave the store, but was stopped by the loss prevention officer.

The officer recovered nearly $800 in merchandise from the cart and more than $170 from the backpack.

Also inside the backpack were pliers and magnets, allegedly used on store merchandise to enable the theft devices.

An animal control officer was called to the store and took custody of the service dog.

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Caroline County Sheriff Tony Lippa said deputies were called to Chilesburg just after 5:10 p.m. after a man reported his hunting dog had been shot and killed.

“The dog, equipped with a GPS tracking collar, was participating in an active hunt when the signal stopped suddenly on the property owned by Adam Beck,” Lippa said.

“Deputies arrived on scene and approached the house, at which time Mr. Beck refused to answer or come to the door,” Lippa said. “There was apparent evidence discovered and the deputies remained on scene to prevent the destruction of this evidence.”

While several deputies remained at the house, a lieutenant and sergeant obtained an arrest and search warrant, according to Lippa.

After the warrant for his arrest was issued, officials said Beck came out of the house and was “arrested without incident.”

Officials said animal control deputies recovered the animal’s body.

Additionally, officials seized two AR-15 rifles as evidence and the dog’s damaged tracking collar was discovered inside Beck’s home, Lippa said.

Beck was booked and released on a $2500 unsecured bond from the Pamunkey Regional Jail, officials said.

However, Lippa said additional charges are pending.

“This is a reminder to all that it is illegal to remove a dog’s GPS collar and identification tags, and it is a felony to harm or kill a hunting dog,” Lippa said. “On behalf of the CCSO, we offer our sincere condolences to the dog’s owner and family.”

Officials said their investigation into the case is ongoing.

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A New York woman is seeking retribution after a dog walker she hired from a popular dog-walking app was captured on video stealing from her home.

The homeowner, Shayna Bryan, posted a series of tweets on Thursday that contained security footage of an unidentified dog walker seen filling her bag with items from around the house as the woman’s dogs watched whelplessly.

The bandit, whom she hired from the pet care company Wag!, even attempted to snag a large winter coat allegedly worth thousands of dollars before Bryan — who had been watching live on her video camera — remotely sounded the alarm.

“I immediately sounded my alarm and demanded she take my handbag out of her bag, which she ignored and quickly left the apartment,” Bryan wrote on Twitter.

Following the incident, Bryan said she tried to contact Wag! three times before turning to the police, adding that no one from the company acted on the theft until her Facebook post went viral, according to the news outlet.

Wag! publicizes its walker vetting process on its website, which they told People magazine includes a criminal background check, Social Security number trace and facial recognition analysis.

The company said it is working with police during the investigation and they deactivated the walker’s account, according to CBS.

Bryan was refunded for the walk, but she said the walker also failed to buckle her dog’s harnesses, which she says, along with everything else, left her “utterly violated.”

“To add fuel to the fire, I subsequently discovered that the dog walker neglected to buckle the harnesses around my dogs’ necks, leaving them vulnerable to running off, getting hurt or worse,” Bryan wrote on Facebook. “She completely compromised their safety. I cannot stop thinking about all of the worst-case scenarios that may have manifested.”

While Wag! does have an intensive vetting process, she hopes others will be careful when hiring people from the app.

“What concerns me is the thought that other families and dogs will experience what I have due to negligence on your part. In fact, my fears have been corroborated by several articles written as recently as last month regarding incidents of dog abuse and/or death as a result of poorly executed background checks,” Bryan said.

“I hope that you can appreciate my deep frustration and expect that you will respond expeditiously to further this investigation,” she added.

Wag!’s Vice President of Trust and Safety and Corporate Affairs, Heather Rothenberg, issued a statement to People and said: “Every service on the Wag! platform is insured and backed by the full support of our Trust and Safety team, which means in the rare case of an incident, we work directly with the pet parent and the appropriate authorities to address the situation.”

“In this case, our Trust and Safety team reached out to the pet parent to offer support as soon as Wag! was informed of the incident,” she said. “We continue to work directly with the local authorities on the investigation. Additionally, the walk has been refunded and the walker, an independent contractor, has been removed from the Wag! platform.”

“Every walker must pass a vetting process and a background check before being allowed to join the Wag platform,” she added. “Every applicant must pass an online test covering dog safety, equipment and handling knowledge before we allow them on the Wag! platform to care for your dog.”

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City police accuse her of assaulting the animal at her Parade Street apartment on Monday.

Erie police detectives investigating the death of an 11-month-old Labrador mix named Izzy after the dog was beaten with a hammer inside a Parade Street apartment early Monday morning picked up on inconsistencies in what the dog’s owner was telling them, Deputy Chief Mike Nolan said Wednesday.

Investigators also received information from other people that led them to question the owner’s initial report that an unknown person entered the apartment while she was away and attacked the animal, Nolan said.

The dog’s owner, 37-year-old Justina Robison, additionally gave police two different versions of what happened to Izzy before she eventually admitted to hitting the dog, he said.

Robison was charged by Erie police Detective Christopher Clement early Wednesday morning with a third-degree felony count of aggravated cruelty to animals for causing Izzy’s death, as well as misdemeanor counts of possessing an instrument of crime, cruelty to animals and false reports to law enforcement.

She was placed in the Erie County Prison on $50,000 bond following her arraignment by Erie 5th Ward District Judge Paul Bizzarro.

Nolan said Robison lied to police in her initial report, and it cost patrol officers and detectives a lot of time and effort in working the case. It also upset members of the Erie community to the point where citizens were trying to raise money to offer as a reward for information leading to the apprehension of the suspect, he said.

“Once again it shows the dedication of Erie police in solving cases like this,” Nolan said. “It was great work. These guys put aside their personal lives to work through the night.”

Robison did not give detectives a reason for why she assaulted her dog when she eventually confessed to the crime, investigators said.

Izzy was euthanized after the dog was taken by an Erie Humane Society officer to the pet emergency center because of the extent of the dog’s injuries following the attack, which happened in Robison’s apartment in the 300 block of Parade Street.

Clement charged in Robison’s criminal complaint that she used a hammer to strike the dog numerous times, then called Erie police and reported that someone entered her residence while she was not there and assaulted her dog.

City police officers who responded to the apartment on a report of an unknown situation involving a lot of blood on Monday at about 2:30 a.m. were told by Robison that she returned home at 1:40 a.m. to find the dog on the kitchen floor, and it appeared to have been beaten. Robison had taken the dog into the bathroom, where officers located it, Clement wrote in the affidavit of probable cause filed with the criminal complaint.

Officers said they recovered a bloody hammer suspected of being used to assault the dog and some duct tape suspected of being used to muzzle it. A Humane Society cruelty officer who was also involved in the investigation also turned over to city police a damaged broom handle that the dog’s owner said she believed may have been used to assault the dog, police reported Monday.

Detectives investigating the case said no evidence was found indicating that anyone broke into Robison’s apartment. They also found no evidence that anything was taken from the apartment.

There were two other dogs and a cat in the apartment but none were reported injured, according to police. The animals were turned over to a relative of Robison’s, investigators said.

Nolan said detectives spent a lot of time at first investigating Robison’s report of a burglary and following up on information she and a number of citizens provided them. That information revealed inconsistencies in Robison’s initial report, and it led to additional interviews with her, Nolan said.

The ongoing investigation eventually led detectives to no longer look at Robison as a victim, he said.

Detectives interviewed Robison on Tuesday afternoon and spoke to her again on Tuesday night, and it was during the last interview that she admitted to striking the dog with the hammer, according to police.

Robison is tentatively scheduled to appear in court for her preliminary hearing on Monday. The aggravated cruelty to animals charge she faces is a felony offense in Pennsylvania, punishable by up to seven years in prison, under changes to state law adopted during the summer of 2017.

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A California couple claims a FedEx driver threw a package across their fence with so much force it squashed their tiny dog and caused such severe injuries that she needed to be euthanized.

Mitchell Galin and Keiko Napier, of Venice, said Cooper, their 4-pound Yorkshire Terrier, was laying in their yard over the weekend when a FedEx employee who was delivering a large package tossed it onto their property.

The package apparently landed on Cooper, the couple told KCBS-TV. Galin said she “immediately picked up the box, and Cooper was in a puddle of blood.”

Cooper suffered serious lung and liver injuries, per the dog’s veterinarian. The couple said they chose to have the pup euthanized.

“It was painful to watch your dog in pain,” Galin said.

FedEx said in a statement obtained by the news outlet they “extend our deepest sympathies to the family of the pet involved in this incident.”

“We take this matter very seriously and are working directly with those involved to determine the circumstances behind this event,” the company continued. “Based on the outcome of our investigation, we will take the appropriate action.”

But Napier said the response from FedEx was “not satisfactory.”

“I feel they need to say they’re going to institute a corporate-wide mandate that drivers cannot throw packages; that’s what I want to hear. I don’t want to hear we’ll look into it,” Napier said. “Our grandchild plays out here. My mother is out here gardening. I’m here gardening.

She continued, “The package was so heavy, should it have struck one of us, it would’ve caused damage — very very severe damage.”

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CRAVEN COUNTY, NC (WITN) – A sad update as the Craven County Sheriff’s Office was looking to find the owner of a dog hit by a car on Highway 17 south.

The sheriff’s office says the owner was found, but unfortunately the dog died from his injuries.

in a Facebook post the sheriff’s office said, “Sampson’s owner was located, unfortunately Sampson succumbed to his injuries & has crossed the Rainbow Bridge. Thanks to your generous donations, we were able to keep Sampson from suffering and his owner was located in time to say goodbye. We know this big guy will be missed terribly, but we are thankful he was reported & not left on the side of the road. Thanks again Craven County for your continued support!”

A dog that was hit by a car this morning in one Eastern Carolina county is recovering while deputies try to find his owner.

Craven County deputies say the dog was injured on U.S. 17 South. 

The dog appears to have severe injuries to his back legs, a broken tooth, and several road rash wounds.

He is being treated at Craven Animal Hospital on Old Cherry Point Road.

Deputies say if you know who the dog belongs to you should immediately call them.

The sheriff’s office says it doesn’t have the funds to care for injured, stray animals, but they are doing their best to help.

If you would like to help out too, please call or stop by Craven Animal Hospital, 4603 Old Cherry Point Road. Their phone number is 252-637-4541.

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TACOMA, Wash. – A couple is in shock after their 2-year-old dog Farru was shot and killed in their own backyard Saturday night. 

Police showed up at about 9:45 p.m. after receiving a disturbance call. Aron Garcia-Pena and Paola Aguilar didn’t get home until about 30 minutes later.

“We saw that one of our dogs was just laying down in our driveway,” Garcia-Pena said. “We thought he was just sleeping or something.”

Sadly, that wasn’t the case.

Security camera footage shows a person walking down the alleyway behind Garcia-Pena and Aguilar’s property. Then, someone walking up to the fence, pulling out a weapon and shooting Farru.

The suspect then takes off running toward East Grandview Avenue.

As of right now, all police have of the suspect description is what’s in the security camera footage.

“I’m hoping people check their security cameras and see if they saw a man walk by or run by,” Aguilar said… And that they get arrested, that’s not okay.” 

They say this is the second dog they’ve lost in a year. Farru’s mom was killed by another dog that got into their backyard.

Gacria-Pena and Aguilar tell KOMO News they could have never imagined something like this would happen to their 2-year-old pup.

“Who would do this?” Aguilar said. “I mean, who has the heart to just show up to someone’s house and just shoot a dog?”

Garcia-Pena and Aguilar say they’re going to continue to canvas their neighborhood to see if anyone else might have some footage of the person that shot Farru.

“We just hope this doesn’t happen to anyone else,” Garcia-Pena said.

“We were shocked,” he added. “We didn’t even think that stuff happened here.”

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At first glance, Lily Reilly looks like just another cute girl. But don’t be mistaken: She’s a working woman with a rough job.

Lily, a 5-year-old labradoodle, was the first of her Caring Canines colleagues to take the witness stand in a Maryland court Nov. 7, comforting a child while she testified as a rape survivor in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court.

Lily can’t take people’s trauma away, but she can put her head in their lap as they recount the worst moment of their lives. And that sweet, calming presence can make a world of a difference for victims, said her handler Barb Reilly, who stood next to the witness stand holding Lily’s leash and escorted her through the court.

“In other cases, she sits in the courtroom… But this was different. This was a much bigger case,” Reilly said. “I think the child really, really appreciated having the dog there. It gave her a chance to decompress.”

Lily’s presence doesn’t just help victims, it also can make for a clearer case. The more comfortable young victims are, the more confident they become, which means they can open up and share more of their story, Reilly said.

“The dogs are really able to bring down anxiety a little bit. Sometimes kids can open up a little bit better,” Reilly said. “It’s amazing what the dogs can do.”

Erin Bogan said she’s also seen the difference dogs like Lily can make. Bogan is the marketing coordinator for Dogwood Acres Pet Retreat in Davidsonville, which certifies volunteer therapy dogs through its Caring Canines program.

“The comforting presence they have helps the child get out of their head and feel more confident and comforted and safe,” Bogan said. “It gives them a little bit of solace through whatever they’re going through.”

The Courthouse Dog and Child Witness Pilot Program has been part of Anne Arundel and Harford county courts since February 2018. Child witnesses eligible for the program are identified by the state’s attorney’s office, a best interest attorney or a Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteer who sends a request to the court’s administrative judge for approval.

Sen. Bryan Simonaire, a Pasadena Republican, is preparing to bring a statewide version of the program to the General Assembly in next year’s session for the second time since 2016. The program would be voluntary and set up protocols for any county that wants to use it, Simonaire said.

“I’m thrilled to see a vision actually become reality,” Simonaire said. “We’re hopeful it goes statewide this year so we can help more children. That’s the real goal of this legislation.”

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WICHITA, KAN. (AP) — A 20-year-old Wichita man who intentionally ran over a dog several times has been sentenced to a year in jail.

Cole Ford Carter was sentenced Monday after earlier pleading guilty to cruelty to animals, criminal threat and a misdemeanor criminal carrying of a weapon.

The Wichita Eagle reports Carter killed 13-year-old Benji in December 2018 after the dog escaped through a fence while his owners were visiting Wichita.

Video showed Carter hit the dog, got out of his car and slammed Benji to the ground before stomping on him. Carter than ran over the dog several times. The motive for the attack is unclear.

An affidavit says Carter later threatened to hurt a neighbor who reported him to police.

Benji was a mix Bichon-Frise and Maltese and weighed about 15 pounds.

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