Miracle Dog, Shot and Buried Alive, to Appear at Holiday Event
Residents are invited to meet Phoebe and Santa, and drop off donations for the dogs and cats at Hillsborough County Animal Services.
It was a horrendous case of animal abuse that shocked animal lovers throughout Tampa Bay. On Oct. 29, someone in the Clair-Mel area buried a mixed-breed pitbull up to her neck and then shot her twice in the head. An anonymous caller notified Hillsborough County Animal Services officers. Upon arriving at the scene, Officer Rene Northrup encountered a heartbreaking sight -- two terrified brown eyes looking up at her from a freshly dug hole in the ground. Using her bare hands and a shovel, Northrop spent 15 minutes freeing the dog from the hole. The pitbull mix was painfully thin and bloody from two gunshot wounds. One bullet had entered her forehead and exited through the back. The other entered under her eye and came out through the neck. …
Crystal
8:54 am on Monday, December 10, 2012
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