Owner's subdivision appears to be in the center of a golf course.
Can see the intersection of Mitch Owens and Manotick Station roads on this photo...
Posted on 04/20/2009 12:39:38 PM PDT by fanfan
A crying Elena Zappia opened her cellphone at her Greely home last night and looked at a picture of her two-year-old husky, Mika.
"I don't want to see that," her fiance Joe Priori interrupted, his eyes welling up with tears. Through damp eyes he looked at the closed phone.
"My poor dog."
Cops shot dead both their dogs -- Mika and Azzuro, a three-year-old German shorthaired pointer -- after police felt threatened by the animals' reportedly aggressive behaviour.
Zappia, 23, was walking the dogs behind their home on Emerald Links Dr. just before 1 p.m. yesterday when the dogs ran after a deer.
WITNESSED SHOOTING
After driving around the area, Zappia's search ended just west of her home. She approached the intersection of Mitch Owens and Manotick Station roads surprised to see several cops around a field. She was just in time to watch police destroy Azzuro.
"I saw them shoot the dog," Zappia said. "They turned around and said, 'Sorry you had to see that'. "
Mika was about 15 metres away, also dead.
Residents in the area called Ottawa police when they noticed the dogs wandering around.
According to police, one of the dogs tried to bite an officer. Another officer shot at the dog to stop the attack and the wounded animal ran away. Minutes later, officers shot both dogs dead after the dogs ran at them, police said in a statement last night.
No officer was injured.
After learning what happened, Priori ran from his home to the field. He stared at Mika, but police wouldn't let him approach his dead dogs.
"I just wanted to pet her," Priori later said at his home. "That's all I wanted to do."
The couple said they understand if officers had to harm Azzuro if the dog was being aggressive, but they can't comprehend why cops shot Mika, a dog that got her name from the Italian word meaning "friend."
There were numerous witnesses around the field where the dogs were on the loose.
Henry Bakker said one dog was very aggressive, but the husky appeared to be playing and it wasn't being a threat.
Priori, 29, said he wants "justice" but he isn't sure what would satisfy him. He's anxious to see the police reports.
The professional standards unit usually looks into incidents of officers discharging their service firearms.
The police force sent a crisis counsellor to Priori and Zappia's home later in the day as Zappia's father quietly buried the dogs on his property, keeping the identification tags as painful memories.
Sorry to hear that, sometimes I like my dogs more than people never had a dog not love me
uestion: What are heartworms, and can I catch them from my dog?
Most pet owners have heard of heartworms. But what do heartworms look like and how are they transmitted from animal to animal? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this FAQ.
Answer: What are Heartworms, and can I catch them from my dog?
Heartworms are large worms that live in the hearts of dogs and cats. They are also found in other species; including ferrets, foxes, wolves, sea lions, and horses. Dogs are the common host for this parasite. Humans are not a natural host for heartworm, but there have been a few rare reports of human cases. In humans, the heartworm is usually found as a single worm in the lung versus the heart. Heartworm is also known as Dirofilaria Immitis. It is a long, spaghetti-like worm that can be anywhere from 6 to 14 inches in length (~17 - 27 cm). Female worms are longer than the male heartworms.
Heartworms cannot be spread animal-to-animal; heartworms need a mosquito to complete their life cycle.
Oh yes indeed. The toxin put out by parasites do the real damage. In fact, the new brain worm thing going on in the south west (do to illegals coming in) isn’t so bad till the worms dies, then the toxins kill you. It’s thier feces and dead bodies, not to mention the nutrients they rob your body of.
Most of what is getting into us can no longer be cured by parasiticals, and I’ve done them all. Once I found out what was going on I stopped eating meat altogether, fluke worms are endemic in Americans today, alot of of the diseases for which they do not understand the cause are caused by parasites. Ask youself why Americans don’t get parasites while the rest of the world is plagued by them, the answer is we are, only we aren’t being treated, you will be scoffed at if you go to your doctor and say you have worms, even thought the CDC just put out a report stating 1 in 10 pet owners are infected with them (in truth, the number is far higher). And testing for them is like finding a needle in a haystack (using western techniques). In india they can diagnose nematode (worm infections) in 15 minutes with ultrasound, here in America, they don’t have a clue how to find them, and with less than a handful of real parasitologists nationwide goodluck.
I know you’ve done a lot of research, so I don’t doubt you.
I do have a question though: wouldn’t a test like an MRI show worms?
yep, my thoughts exactly
They are trying to make it super automatic to break their tyrannical hypocritical “standards.”
Owner's subdivision appears to be in the center of a golf course.
Can see the intersection of Mitch Owens and Manotick Station roads on this photo...
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