Just got home: found our dog Unresponsive

[Merz]

My dog, Ziggy, was shot tonight. I let him out one last time before I was to go to sleep. 5 minutes later I go outside to retrieve him. I hear a gunshot, close enough that I instinctively jump back into my house and slam the door. I then hear my dog howl. I run back outside and see him collapse at the stairs of my porch. I ran up to him and felt his last breath. I ran in the house and grab a flashlight and see that there is blood everywhere and he had been shot.

A grown *** man shouldn't cry this much.

RIP Ziggy

2/14/03 - 9/30/12

[Merz]

I know who did it. It was the man across the street from my next door neighbor. My dog was at the edge of the street. This lowlife shot towards my neighbors house at my dog (the most gentle, personality filled black lab any one would ever have. The kind of dog who would let a cat eat out of his bowl and not snap). I'm prosecuting and so are my neighbors. One of my neighbors is afraid to leave the house, she is so afraid of this deranged man sitting on his porch, with his gun, drinking, at 2 in the morning waiting for something to shoot.

The officer I talked to says that this scum has killed other dogs before (and he told the officer that he'd do it again with a **** attitude like it makes him some kind of bad-***). The fact that he shot towards a house might be the thing that finally gets him put behind bars.

Just the image of Ziggy running towards me, like I would save him and get rid of his pain, and collapsing short of me...brings me to tears as I'm typing this.

It's so, so hard being 30 yards from the person who did this and not being able to do anything, having to wait for the legal system. I can't wait to get him behind bars and to move away from this place.

Edit - I'm sorry Adam, I probably should have made my own thread for this. A thread full of multiple dog deaths has to be one of the saddest threads in existence. I definitely know your pain when you found your dog unresponsive. Sorry if bringing this thread back has reminded you of that pain.

[Natston]

That's some **** up ****...

[wharfrat]

All I can say is Wow. My sympathies to both of you.