Posted on 05/24/2014 10:33:40 PM PDT by Altariel
FORT WORTH — Police and U.S. Postal Service officials are investigating a complaint by a Meadowbrook area couple that a mail carrier fatally injured their Yorkshire terrier by hitting him with a rock.
The 5-year-old dog named Maxwell wandered across the street from his owners’ residence in the 3600 block of Hazeline Road about 11 a.m. Saturday, Maxwell’s owner, Lawrence Brown, said Monday.
Brown, 46, said he was in the garage and didn’t realize Maxwell was across the street when he heard a dog yelping in pain.
As he walked toward the street, Brown saw the mail carrier and asked, “What did you do to that dog?”
“He said, ‘I got me one,’ ” Brown said.
That’s when Brown realized that the injured dog was Maxwell.
“I asked him why he hit my wife’s dog with a rock, and he said, ‘I did what I had to do,’ ” Brown said.
A veterinarian at an emergency clinic told the Browns that Maxwell had a shattered skull and severe spinal cord injury and couldn’t be saved, so the dog was euthanized, Lawrence Brown said.
A Fort Worth police officer “responded to an animal cruelty report call” about 2:15 p.m. Saturday from the Browns’ address, said officer Daniel Segura, a police spokesman. “The victim told officers that the possible suspect was the mail carrier,” Segura said.
Police have talked to a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier’s supervisor, Segura said.
Police are not releasing the letter carrier’s name, and no arrest has been made, Segura said.
The postal service is investigating the Browns’ complaint, said Arlene Sanchez, a Postal Service spokeswoman for the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
“The postal service takes the issue of dog bite prevention very seriously,” Sanchez said by email. “We are saddened at the loss of the customer’s pet.
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Yeah, but how many dogs with da ebils did she encounter?
Oh, great. Give man’s best friend the guns or the cold, reptilian ones the guns.
Next they’ll form hunting packs and start vocalizing to each other as they approach their quarry.
We’re all doomed.
I see she has a strong opinion about snakes.
Does Odhinn still outrank her or has she trained him to do her ebil bidding?
Our cops carry .45 caliber dog biscuits.
I have delivered the mail for over 20 years. Big dogs are bad, but terriers are the worst, they are fast and aggressive. Yes we do have mace and most of the time it works well. Worst attack I’ve had was with a white German shepherd mix. Two cans of mace in his face over the course of 5 to 10 minutes, he still kept coming, picked up a small baseball sized log off a wood pile for each hand. It took three solid strikes to his head to finally make him leave. I wasn’t even in his yard and a couple weeks before he jumped out of the window of a moving vehicle to come after me. I feel for the Yorkie owner, that carrier sounds like a mean jerk and we are NOT ALL like that.
>>> Her somewhat disturbing choice of birthday gift.
LOL.
Uh-oh.
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