Warning. Graphic. Sickening. bostonherald/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/09/vet_dog_endured_medieval_style_torture Puppy Doe weighed 18 pounds — less than half the healthy weight for a female pit between the ages of 1 and 2 — and had a serpent-like split in her tongue, apparently from a crude cutting procedure. The dog also had been stabbed in the eye days before being found, Smith-Blackmore said. She said the dog had calloused bone from repeated blows to the head, and the tops of her vertebrae were smashed from her back being beaten — possibly with a board or baseball bat, she said. A severely malnourished pitbull endured months of torture that included having its limbs pulled apart in a medieval-style “drawing,” the vet who performed the dog’s necropsy told the Herald today as authorities plead with the public to help them find the “sadistic” person responsible. A shaken Dr. Martha Smith-Blackmore of the Animal Rescue League said the fate of the brindle-colored pit cops named “Puppy Doe” before she was euthanized is “unquestionably ... hands down” the worst case of animal abuse she has ever seen. “She was a rack of beaten bones,” Smith-Blackmore said. “Her joints were pulled apart like Medieval times. She was beaten, stabbed, burned over weeks to months and maybe her whole life. And could not walk. When I saw how vulnerable she was and I understood immediately the duration of her suffering, my heart collapsed.” Smith-Blackmore said “Puppy Doe,” who was discovered by a passer-by Aug. 31 abandoned in woods near the Whitwell Street playground in Quincy, endured having a wrist, ankle and elbow separated from their joints and a leg bone virtually broken in half from being drawn “over and over and over. It’s a very intimate form of violence.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 22:31:39 +0000