It was a bad day for the Carpenter family down on the lower West Fork yesterday. An unknown person took careful aim and shot both of their family dogs, in their own yard.
The boxer could recover, but the Chinese Pug died yesterday evening.
The family has written this letter:
Dear Editor,
To the person who shot our family dogs in our own yard on Altizer Road below Egypt Ridge, a Boxer and a Chinese Pug.
You know who you are.
I hope that someone tells you about this article. I wonder if you have given your vile, heinous act a second thought.
After rushing the boxer to Cain's Veterinary Clinic, he is on a slow and painful road to recovery. He will have at least three more visits with his regular veterinarian before he is completely healed.
The Pug however was not as fortunate. After being taken the Veterinary Emergency Clinic in Parkersburg, where he was X-Rayed. The X-Ray's revealed over 20 buckshot pellets, 10 of which the vet was able to remove.
Because he was in shock, the vet did not want to sedate him to attempt to remove any more of the pellets. Instead he focused on treating the shock. He received medication and IV fluids, and the longer they worked with him, the more hopeful we were.
He endured all of this before he was brought out to us, my husband, myself, and his 15 year old owner, so that he could die in our arms 15 minutes later.
What I have to say to you is this: How sad it must be to have such a black heart, to have a life so empty that you have to shoot animals in their own back yard to get a thrill.
I believe that nothing human would do something so cruel, you should be pitied.
(Signed)
Kenneth and Linda Carpenter,
K.J., Allen and Tori
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