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RE: More Local Media Input About the Dog Beaten to Death in Tazewell County, Virginia

in #animals7 years ago

I read both this and the previous one. The 911 call definitely backed up the witness statement. It's nice to have on the official record that she said what she did.

I still find the whole situation concerning. He has one chicken left. The coop has already been invaded by a dog the night before. And he does nothing to animal-proof his coop? How do we even know the chicken was in there when the dog came? It could have walked off through whatever huge hole the dog got through. I hope the authorities have at least learned to show more due diligence investigating this type of case. What was the guy doing to the dog that the dog had access TO HIS STOMACH? Aren't dog attacks normally appendage?

The woman say the dog BEFORE the man killed it. So it got from whatever she saw it trapped in yet it made no attempt at killing her, then it got into the man's chicken coop and was in the act of killing the chicken after he came out?

I am still struggling to put the pieces together. It doesn't quite make sense.

Also, if the man was bit by the dog and the dog was dead, wouldn't it be standard procedure to take the dog's body or arrange to have it picked up by ACO immediately for testing to see if it was rabid as that could impact the man's treatment?

It's been years since I've been in the US, but last I knew you tested for rabies by doing something to the brain. This is why any suspected rabid animal has to be put down. So why, if the man had been bitten and reported it to the authorities immediately, wasn't testing being arranged immediately?

I am also wondering when that picture of his belly was supposed to have been taken? If he was reporting a new injury just received while he was fighting with the dead dog and killing it allgedly in self-defense, shouldn't there be evidence of the fresh wound? If there is, why is a picture of an older wound being released through the media instead of the photographic evidence? I'm feeling really confused here. But I'm no medical expert to know if that's how a dog bite from a dog that size looks on a man's stomach.

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Many people, including me, are just as confused by the interpretation of this evidence as you are. None of this makes logical sense. I mean, the facts are clear as glass. It's all the spins being put on them that make my head hurt.