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JURUPA VALLEY (CA): 3 dogs dead, 12 missing after break-in at animal shelter
Press Enterprise ^ | 9/13/2015 | Patrick O'neill

Posted on 09/13/2015 9:43:48 PM PDT by chrisinoc

At least three dogs are dead and 12 more are missing after someone broke into the Riverside County Animal Shelter in Jurupa Valley and opened up their kennels, officials said.

Animal Services spokesman John Welsh said a man in dark clothing can be seen on surveillance footage breaking locks early Sunday, Sept. 13, to release 22 dogs from their kennels at 6851 Van Buren Road.

(Excerpt) Read more at pe.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalshelter; breakin; dogs; kennel
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Suspecting they were being stolen for the purpose of becoming bait dogs.
1 posted on 09/13/2015 9:43:48 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: chrisinoc

What is a bait dog?

I see a German Shepherd has died as a result of this, and that is really very sad ;/


2 posted on 09/13/2015 9:47:25 PM PDT by chris37 (hearltess)
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To: chris37

A bait dog is a dog that is used by dog-fighting folks to train a more vicious dog how to attack and kill an opponent. Basically, they are disposable victims.


3 posted on 09/13/2015 9:52:05 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: chris37
From Wiki:

Dog-baiting is the setting of game dogs against a chained or confined animal for sport. The dogs bite and tear to subdue the opposing animal by incapacitating or killing it. Baiting is a blood sport used for entertainment and gambling. It is illegal in most countries with varying levels of enforcement.

It happens more often than you think.

4 posted on 09/13/2015 9:53:07 PM PDT by BBell
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To: chrisinoc

“Investigators have not publicly released surveillance images.”

Well.

I wonder why *not*?

Kinda hard to find the perp and the dogs if no one knows who they’re looking for.

Prayers that they’re found quickly.

If they were taken as bait dogs, well, other prayers.

:’(


5 posted on 09/13/2015 9:55:26 PM PDT by Salamander (...and He who made kittens, put snakes in the grass...)
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To: BBell

They are commonly stolen out of cars and their own yards.

I *never* let my dogs outside alone or unattended in a car.

Ever.

Not even for 1 minute.


6 posted on 09/13/2015 9:56:50 PM PDT by Salamander (...and He who made kittens, put snakes in the grass...)
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To: chrisinoc

Sickening. I’ve always thought that the best way to tell if a man is trustworthy, observe how he treats dogs and other animals.


7 posted on 09/13/2015 9:57:24 PM PDT by patro (Phrogs Forever)
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To: chris37

A bait dog is one that is used to prepare another for purpose of dog fighting (ala Michael Vick). It is akin to a sparring partner in boxing except the bait dog usually dies.

Here’s one that survived and is care of our rescue but can never be adopted out: http://www.gsroc.org/2013/detail.gsr?id=2987


8 posted on 09/13/2015 9:57:45 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: Salamander

My Mother resides in northern Indiana and for awhile dead badly chewed up dogs were being found in the St. Joseph River. Many of them were missing family dogs.


9 posted on 09/13/2015 10:06:05 PM PDT by BBell
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To: chrisinoc; BBell; Teacher317

AHHH!My God...

Thank you all very much for the responses. I was not aware of this being done.

People do some really messed up stuff with dogs, and it makes me sick.

But then there are the people who do wonderful things with dogs, and I am really thankful for such people.


10 posted on 09/13/2015 10:15:58 PM PDT by chris37 (hearltess)
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To: BBell

The scumbags hit our area in the 90s.

Due to doing Dobe rescue, I was tight with the local shelter and the manager told me what was going on and I had to stop toting my beloved Minny the Ibizan with me everywhere I went.

She was broken hearted when I’d leave and not take her but the thought of her sweet, gentle self being torn apart by fighting dogs was an unforgivable thing.

So, I left her home.

Eventually, I started staying home more too because I couldn’t bear to see her sad face.

All these years later, I *still* don’t leave my dogs in the car, alone.

Either I go in and get what I need while hubby watches them or vice versa.

Yes, even the Dobes, who would cheerfully rip off any arms that came through the car windows.

I will not take *any* chances with my dogs.

When I’ve had dogs who needed surgery, no matter how long I had to wait, I stayed near the vet hospital until they were able to come out and go home.

Things can happen, even in the best of controlled situations.

But no matter what might happen, they’ll have to kill me to get to my dogs.

Having ranted all that, this is the time of year that black dogs, particularly those of German heritage, black cats and other pets ‘go missing’.

They are taken for pagan/satanic sacrifices.

One of the ladies at the shelter had to go to a certain place after Halloween [and other heathen ‘holy days’] to collect the bodies.

PLEASE do not let your pets unattended in your yards or cars.

What happens to them, if taken, is agonizingly horrible.


11 posted on 09/13/2015 10:27:49 PM PDT by Salamander (...and He who made kittens, put snakes in the grass...)
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To: chrisinoc

Last month I got to talking to a B.A.C.A. biker and he said the hardest part of being in the club was constantly restraining themselves from *not* just taking a hammer to the molesters who had hurt “their kids”.

This made me think of that.


12 posted on 09/13/2015 10:32:09 PM PDT by Salamander (...and He who made kittens, put snakes in the grass...)
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To: Salamander

Egad! After reading your post, I am thinking that I better not bring beloved Isis with me to Winn Dixie anymore.

That is the one place that I bring her where I leave her in the car for 10-15 minutes while I go inside, only if it’s cool enough outside where she is not at risk of overheating in the car.

If I came out and she was gone, I would not be able to live with myself, Good God, what a terrifying thought that is.


13 posted on 09/13/2015 10:45:50 PM PDT by chris37 (hearltess)
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To: chrisinoc

Terminate with extreme prejudice!


14 posted on 09/13/2015 10:55:51 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken (qaulification)
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To: chrisinoc

The shelter in this article is the one where my boy Mojo was rescued from.


15 posted on 09/13/2015 11:01:33 PM PDT by Nacho Bidnith (Leftists can see racism everywhere except the mirror)
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To: Salamander

You are damn right.


16 posted on 09/14/2015 12:14:08 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Salamander

Yeah but folks steal dogs like ours cause they are prized for being big pure bred guard dogs

Not throwaways like folks suggest here

I’m like you

I keep my dog locked in car when rides with me which is most days

With ac on of course...

I even have a sign to explain car running which I put on dash

135 pound male Rottweiler inside

Very aggressive

Air conditioner is on and full tank

Break glass and you’ll get bit I promise


17 posted on 09/14/2015 12:18:52 AM PDT by wardaddy ("The Reset Will Not Be Televised".....Gil Scott Wardaddy)
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To: chrisinoc

Ketch the guy and break his leg an inch at a time


18 posted on 09/14/2015 12:36:10 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: chris37

GSDs are a particular “favorite” of these demon skinwalkers.

Not sure if they still do it, but the local shelter used to impose a halt on the adoption of any “likely breeds” a month before Halloween.

Some of the other shelters get very twitchy at other times of year, such as April 30/May 1, too.

The world is full of evil people and shelters don’t really keep tabs on all those newly adopted Fidos and Fluffies so “they” go “adopt” them, knowing no one will bother to track the animal’s life after.

Many years ago, we had a guy bring a bike up from NOLA to get it triked out.

When he got here, he was distracted, and eventually said he was worried about his dog, a solid black Lab/GSD mix who had “disappeared” from his fenced yard, shortly before he came up here.

It was the third week of October.

I said nothing.

Didn’t have the heart to and was praying that my suspicions were wrong.

:(

There’s some weird fasciantion for “dogs with eyebrows” so ALL black and tan breeds are preferred victims.

God.

I hate even typing this.

Makes me sick to my stomach and brings back a lot of bad memories.

Anyway, that’s the big reason I went to breed club rescue rather than hitting the local shelters.

I lost the ability to keep seeing the ‘seasonal horrors’ without going mad.

:-\


19 posted on 09/14/2015 1:57:43 AM PDT by Salamander (...and He who made kittens, put snakes in the grass...)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Sure wish I was not.

:(


20 posted on 09/14/2015 1:58:37 AM PDT by Salamander (...and He who made kittens, put snakes in the grass...)
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