Returning to their Inkster home late Saturday from Saginaw, Tony and Sandra Price discovered their dog missing from their backyard and footprints of the dognappers in the freshly fallen snow.
Lady, the Prices' 18-month-old boxer, has a sweet disposition and "would go with anybody," Sandra Price said.
"She's a good dog," she said. "She just loves to jump on you and just play with you. You just rub her head, and she loves her treats and everything."
Tony Price followed the footprints as far as he could, but his wife could hear Lady's distinctive cough-like bark coming from the backyard of a home a few houses down and one street over. Ominously, she also heard the growling and barking of bigger, meaner animals.
From a distance, Tony Price could see a handful of young men and at least two pit bulls on chains. He yelled to them, but they denied seeing Lady.
The youths left, but Price later found Lady, who is now recovering, in that backyard bleeding profusely from the neck and barely alive.
"Oh, she was really messed up," Tony Price said Monday.
A 15-year-old boy who was arrested by Inkster police that night appeared Monday in the juvenile division of Wayne County Family Court charged with animal cruelty.
Do you now see why I don’t recommend leaving your dog alone in the back yard? Unsupervised dogs need to be indoors or in a locked, secure indoor/ outdoor kennel.
Lady, the Prices' 18-month-old boxer, has a sweet disposition and "would go with anybody," Sandra Price said.
"She's a good dog," she said. "She just loves to jump on you and just play with you. You just rub her head, and she loves her treats and everything."
Tony Price followed the footprints as far as he could, but his wife could hear Lady's distinctive cough-like bark coming from the backyard of a home a few houses down and one street over. Ominously, she also heard the growling and barking of bigger, meaner animals.
From a distance, Tony Price could see a handful of young men and at least two pit bulls on chains. He yelled to them, but they denied seeing Lady.
The youths left, but Price later found Lady, who is now recovering, in that backyard bleeding profusely from the neck and barely alive.
"Oh, she was really messed up," Tony Price said Monday.
A 15-year-old boy who was arrested by Inkster police that night appeared Monday in the juvenile division of Wayne County Family Court charged with animal cruelty.
Do you now see why I don’t recommend leaving your dog alone in the back yard? Unsupervised dogs need to be indoors or in a locked, secure indoor/ outdoor kennel.
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