• Veteran Executes Her Own Service Dog While Giggling

    From Leroy N. Soetoro@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 29 16:08:43 2017
    XPost: us.military.army, alt.animals.dog, rec.pets.dogs.rescue
    XPost: sac.politics, alt.survival

    http://www.newser.com/story/241861/cops-veteran-soldier-killed-therapy- dog-while-giggling.html

    (NEWSER) – When volunteers appealed for someone to adopt a 2-year-old pit
    bull that had arrived at a North Carolina animal shelter, it was with the
    hope that the dog would find "a real loving forever home." Instead, the
    dog met a gruesome end last week when he was shot to death—allegedly by
    his owner, as cameras and laughter rolled, police tell the Fayetteville Observer. Authorities say Army veteran Marinna Rollins and her soldier boyfriend Jarren Heng took Rollins' dog, named Cam, to a wooded area, tied
    it to a tree, shot it at close range, then buried it in a shallow grave,
    per WTVD. In an April 17 Facebook post, however, Rollins had said she'd
    found a new home for Cam, originally adopted by her estranged husband,
    because caring for him was too expensive.

    "Sad he has to go, but he will be much happier where he is heading off
    to," wrote Rollins, 23, who had Cam certified as a support dog for PTSD
    after her husband was deployed to South Korea; she medically retired from
    the Army at the beginning of the year. "He's going to have such a great
    new life," Heng, 25, added in a comment. But according to police, Rollins
    shot the dog five times as Heng recorded the incident, then filmed Heng
    firing several more shots. Both Rollins and Heng, now charged with cruelty
    to animals and conspiracy, are heard on video "laughing and giggling" as
    the dog dies, says the Cumberland County DA. As for how the crime
    surfaced, WNCN reports someone who knows Rollins posted video of the
    shooting to Facebook with the intention of police catching wind of it.
    (This instance of animal cruelty involved spilled vodka.)

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