Posted on 02/08/2012 7:37:00 PM PST by EinNYC
A Southern California man who allegedly killed a miniature 6-pound dog by teeing off on the Chihuahua with a golf club has been charged with felony animal cruelty.
Larry Jaurequi, 58, faces up to four years in jail if convicted, Riverside County prosecutors said.
A police report states Jaurequi swung the club against the little dog, named Lily, "as if driving a ball off its tee."
"The force of the swing sent the animal flying through the air. The suspect was preparing for a second swing when he was stopped by people that had just witnessed his acts," Sgt. Sergio Rodriguez with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department wrote of the Jan. 26 incident.
Jaurequi allegedly approached the Chihuahua in a cul-de-sac near his residence after the dog escaped along with Poodle from its owner's house while the owner was at work.
The owner found the injured dog suffering as the suspect was walking away from the location, police said. The owner rushed the dog to an emergency veterinarian, but the animal did not survive.
A spokesman for the Riverside County prosecutor's office said Jaurequi, who lives in Menifee, also faces an enhancement alleging he used a dangerous or deadly weapon.
Attempts to reach Jaurequi were not immediately successful.
Mercy, a true Peta member I assume. While this act was a bit outrageous (he should have gathered the remains and eaten the legs - yum), you seem to take this act just a bit out of context. Yes, it was over the top.
No, I would not have done that - although hunting frogs for food is a good thing.
There are always those that take squashing a bug, swatting a mosquito, shooting a groundhog, etc...(you know who you are) as acts against humanity. I’d bet that most of you are not against abortion though...
Go get you panties in a wad over something more relevant.
Yikes - misread this, did not realize that this was a dog. Sorry... Thought they were talking about a bullfrog.
That's your defense of sadism?
Really...?
I didn’t defend anything. Do you have a defense for your stupid comment?
And that's your defense of your defense for sadism?
Really...?
Ah man. We’ve got a little 3.5 pound Chihuahua and I don’t even want to think about him meeting such an awful fate. Horrible beast!
Ah, but deagles are fair game here... Just not dogs and cats or other pets. Now eatables like frogs legs - not a chance. Use to love hunting those but of course, being from the country and needing them for sustance, it was a given.
A driver would be definite overkill.
Bastard! Bastard! Let me have five minutes—no, just five seconds—with him and a lob wedge—
Glad you had the courage to intervene Flycatcher. It’s one thing to hunt for food, but just for the sake of killing and destruction for fun is evil. Human, animal or plant!
I know very little about golf (what’s a birdie? what’s a bogie?) but I imagine that attending the trial would be a highly educational experience once the attorneys of the sides present golf experts.
I eat meat. Love it. I've even eaten frog legs. They're good. Like chicken, lol.
But there's a huge difference between hunting and fishing and harvesting animals for food and clothing, and wantonly killing them for no other reason than sadistic sport.
For want of a better term, the difference can be summed up by a simple phrase: Christian stewardship.
Please, don’t say we can’t do anything about anything else because everyone doesn’t have abortion as their number one cause they’re fighting against.
If it were my pet that guy would have had to have an operation to remove that club from his colon.
You don’t take it out on a loser’s pet (if this were even the case). You deal with the loser owner. Not the animal.
Some people get pissed people get upset about any other cause than the one they’re most adamant about. Nothing else matters. Abortion is huge but in this world if we only focused on one particular evil at the expense of the rest...? That’s why there are a lot of people with different issues that irk them, so they can fight and advocate against all different kinds of bad. Not saying they are all equal but I am saying certain issues resonate more with certain people. Got plenty of work to do out there for all of us.
Humor is not your strong suit.
But yet police shoot family dogs all the time and face no charges at all. Either dogs merit protection from murder, or they don’t.
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