Pet Dogs Repeatedly Shot By Neighbor For No Reason, Owner Says
POSTED: Friday, May 23, 2008
UPDATED: 1:28 pm EDT May 23,
2008
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A Central Florida man wants his neighbor charged over video showing his pet dogs being repeatedly shot despite screamed pleas to stop.
Chris Butler said his pet Siberian Huskies wandered into a nearby pasture located off Narcossee Road and were shot for no reason.
Video showed one of Butler's dogs being gunned down as it ran away from the shooter and another dog being shot while standing still in the field, Local 6's Jessica D'Onofrio said.
Butler said the neighbor continued to shoot while the dogs were on the ground.
"I was running toward him and screaming, 'Please stop shooting my dogs,'" Butler said. "He knew they were my dogs. And the last shot you can see is he is walking toward me and I'm speaking to him and saying, 'Please stop shooting them.' And he turned around and shot them again."
Butler said the neighbor shot one of his dogs four times.
"He just wanted to kill them," Butler said. "That is what it boils down to. He just wanted to shoot them."
Butler said the dogs were harmless and would not have hurt anyone.
"The dogs shouldn't have been there, I know," Butler said. "I know they shouldn't have been there. But he didn't have to shoot them. They wouldn't hurt a fly. They wouldn't hurt anybody. They wouldn't hurt the cows. They were just curious and anybody who has huskies will tell you they are the most beautiful, beautiful dogs."
One of the dogs is fighting to survive and the other pet was treated and released from a veterinarian's office.
The neighbor told Local 6 that he fired two warning shots at the dogs and claims the dogs tried to attack him.
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