Petition to press felony charges on man who cut leg off small dog.
In the interest of public safety: The man who cut the leg of a small dog named Chiquita on the southside of San Antonio Texas on Feb. 13, needs to be charged with felony animal cruelty. Furthermore, this man needs to recieve the maximum amount of time in prison. This was an act of needless and extreme brutality and depravity inflicting indescribable suffering to an innocent creature. According to experts in criminal psychology the next victim could not only be another animal, but a child.
While painting the deck of her South Side home one sunny afternoon this month, a woman witnessed something that made her stomach turn.
A passing car had struck a small black dog named Chiquita. A neighbor was using a pair of pruning shears and a pocketknife to remove the creature's broken leg, pinning the dog's head to the front stoop with his shoe while performing the impromptu surgery, she said.
The man later told police he was trying to treat the dog's injuries. The dog's owner, who is the man's brother-in-law, told police he "was OK with (the man) trying to treat (his) dog," a police report said.
Police arrested no one and left without contacting officials with Animal Care Services, who learned about the incident two days later. By then the dog had died, the brother-in-law said. Officials said the owner threw the dog's body in the trash. - San Antonio Express News
