graphic......and very sad
Reward Offered For Puppy Attacked With Acid
UPDATED: 12:37 pm EST March 16, 2006
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. -- A big reward is being offered for anyone who helps find whoever is responsible for a brutal attack on a puppy.
A group is offering $10,000 for information about who immersed the dog in acid, burning it so severely that a veterinarian had to put it down.
Reward posters are going up in Federal Way, Seattle television station KIRO reported.
Veterinarians who put the 4-month old puppy to sleep believe someone soaked it in acid. The smell was so strong, some of the vet's staff had to go to the hospital themselves.
The veterinarians who tried to treat the pit bull named Mooey are so traumatized by what they saw, they're demanding justice.
"I want whoever did this to be prosecuted. If they did this to a dog, what are they going to do to kids?," said Dr. Ivy Engstrom.
Mooey was barely alive when she was spotted in a Federal Way backyard by a little girl, several doors down from where the puppy lived.
"My little great-granddaughter, who is 4, said 'There's a puppy in our back yard!' We went out there and looked and there it was!" said Doris Carlson, who lives several doors down from where the puppy lived.
Mooey's fur and skin was literally falling off. Carlson said Mooey was "just bloody. Paws and hair all falling off."
They wrapped the pup up, racing to the animal hospital. Even though the dog was wagging her tail, she was in agony. The doctors took pictures of the acid burns.
Chris Tolman, from the Valley Animal Hospital, said saving the puppy would have been difficult.
"Every inch of her skin would have needed a transplant," he said. "There was nothing to save!"
The owner of the puppy told KIRO he believes someone took it from his yard after dousing it with acid.
"They said it could've been possibly someone threw something on the dog, through the fence," Marcel Jones said.
Federal Way police are trying to figure out if the dog was soaked in muriatic acid, which you use to clean concrete and is also an ingredient in methamphetamine.