not again...
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 10:45 pm
Pets are still being shot in Pulaskifield, which has area residents questioning if the apparently random assassinations can be stopped.
The latest in the Pulaskifield pet victims has been a pair of two-month-old chocolate Lab puppies, owned by Bob and Marie Rakoski.
The latest incident took place over Valentine's weekend, when someone shot the dogs with a shotgun.
"I live down a long dirt road. I really feel like the person or persons had to walk up my driveway to shoot the dogs," said Marie Rakoski. "I feel like my dogs were targeted."
The incident took place in the early morning hours Saturday, February 14.
"The neighbors heard a loud vehicle, about 4 a.m.," she said.
Rakoski didn't know anything was wrong until she went to feed the animals the next morning.
"The little girl puppy had 24 shotgun pellets in her, according to the vet," she said. "The boy pup had half a dozen pellets in him. My Basset Hound had two or three."
Unfortunately, it seems as if the Rakoski dogs were not the only intended targets that morning.
"A neighbor heard a loud vehicle at about 10:30 p.m., and it woke up her boys," Rakoski said. "She called her daughter, right across the street, and both women flipped on their porch lights. A Blazer with a roll bar and daylights on top had come to a stop between the houses, and when the lights came on it sped off. But it came around a second time, about 4 a.m."
The women told Rakoski that they felt a yellow lab was the intended target.
"We've had two other dogs just disappear," Rakoski noted. "A six-month old Husky, Hank, disappeared right after Christmas. We heard there were about five dead dogs piled in a ditch over by the bowling alley, and someone told my son he thought that Hank might be one of them. We didn't investigate.
"The other dog, a bull dog, we had for about a year, and it disappeared last summer."
Rakoski did notify members of the Barry County Sheriff's Department, and Deputy Kerry Pippin began the investigation.
Sheriff Mick Epperly asked that anyone with information about the shootings or suspicious vehicles to call his office at 417/847-3121.
The latest in the Pulaskifield pet victims has been a pair of two-month-old chocolate Lab puppies, owned by Bob and Marie Rakoski.
The latest incident took place over Valentine's weekend, when someone shot the dogs with a shotgun.
"I live down a long dirt road. I really feel like the person or persons had to walk up my driveway to shoot the dogs," said Marie Rakoski. "I feel like my dogs were targeted."
The incident took place in the early morning hours Saturday, February 14.
"The neighbors heard a loud vehicle, about 4 a.m.," she said.
Rakoski didn't know anything was wrong until she went to feed the animals the next morning.
"The little girl puppy had 24 shotgun pellets in her, according to the vet," she said. "The boy pup had half a dozen pellets in him. My Basset Hound had two or three."
Unfortunately, it seems as if the Rakoski dogs were not the only intended targets that morning.
"A neighbor heard a loud vehicle at about 10:30 p.m., and it woke up her boys," Rakoski said. "She called her daughter, right across the street, and both women flipped on their porch lights. A Blazer with a roll bar and daylights on top had come to a stop between the houses, and when the lights came on it sped off. But it came around a second time, about 4 a.m."
The women told Rakoski that they felt a yellow lab was the intended target.
"We've had two other dogs just disappear," Rakoski noted. "A six-month old Husky, Hank, disappeared right after Christmas. We heard there were about five dead dogs piled in a ditch over by the bowling alley, and someone told my son he thought that Hank might be one of them. We didn't investigate.
"The other dog, a bull dog, we had for about a year, and it disappeared last summer."
Rakoski did notify members of the Barry County Sheriff's Department, and Deputy Kerry Pippin began the investigation.
Sheriff Mick Epperly asked that anyone with information about the shootings or suspicious vehicles to call his office at 417/847-3121.
I am just waiting for a more accurate description of the car and then I might call. I don't want to point fingers since I am not sure. I may be way off base.
