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Lyle man found guilty of animal cruelty
Published Saturday, November 21, 2009
A Lyle man charged with animal cruelty for letting two dogs die of starvation, dehydration and over-exposure to the cold was found guilty Friday.
Jacob Joshua McAlister, 31, will be sentenced on April 22, 2010, for the offense. He had pleaded not guilty to the two felony counts earlier this year.
According to a police report, the Lyle police chief received a call April 2, 2009, from the Mower County Sheriff’s Office, which was looking for McAlister after discovering two dead Labrador retrievers in a kennel on the north side of a machine shed in Lyle.
The dogs — one black lab and one chocolate lab, “Rusty” and “Johnny” — had been obviously left unattended and were covered in a large amount of feces, records show.
Police contacted Barry Rush, an agent for the Humane Society, and took photographs of the scene.
On April 3, Rush, a deputy and a veterinarian met at the scene. The dogs were believed to have been dead for a few days in the kennel. Several inches of feces covered the kennel floor, and water was frozen in buckets.
The vet determined the dogs died of starvation, dehydration and exposure to the elements sustained from Jan. 1 through March 31. The chocolate lab — which appeared to have been partially eaten by the black dog — weighed 42.5 pounds. The black lab weighed 33.1 pounds.
Rush stated in an e-mail before McAlister’s conviction that “the fact that the county attorney held firm with two felony counts is encouraging ... with continued public attention, perhaps we can, for once, get some justice for these two poor Labs.”
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Posted by zkmd (anonymous) on November 21, 2009 at 4:14 p.m. (Suggest removal)
This is the best news I could ever have hoped to hear about this neglect/abuse case. The fact that this person was found guilty and is going to be made to take responsibility for the horrible death that he caused these two poor innocent dogs is the ideal of justice being carried out. To think that these poor dogs were left in the winter elements, starved and dehydrated until they could no longer hang on and simply gave up, laid down and died is enough to make me sick. I certainly hope that what has been justice served so far in finding this man guilty will continue to prevail through the sentencing phase of the trial and that he will get the harshest penalty possible for what he has done. Those poor animals did nothing to deserve what happened to them. Their only crime was that they trusted this person-their owner to care for them. I pray that our justice system and the judge in this case will do well by these dogs and give this man some jail time to sit and think about what he did. A slap on the wrist and a fine or probation is no where near punishment for what he has done and the suffering he caused those animals and I sure hope that he receives more punishment than that. This is the time t make an example out of this person and show everyone that this sort of thing will not be tolerated.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated”. Mahatma Ghandi
Posted by jmdaniel (anonymous) on November 21, 2009 at 6:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well said, bravo!!!!! The only thing I have to add is to the inevitable comment that will show up, saying "they were just dogs, how about the way humans are treated these days?" Well folks, just because some of us care a lot about dogs doesn't mean we don't care about the human race. How about you think of all living creatures?
Posted by wishfulmind (anonymous) on November 21, 2009 at 8:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I certainly hope he never has a human family for fear of what may become of them!
Posted by ss_wiking (anonymous) on November 22, 2009 at 9:30 a.m.
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Posted by wishfulmind (anonymous) on November 22, 2009 at 5:26 p.m.
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Posted by johnnybegood (anonymous) on November 22, 2009 at 6:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Animal cruelty....the makings of a sociopath! Deliverance...
Posted by MrBojangles (anonymous) on November 22, 2009 at 10:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"A Lyle man charged with animal cruelty for letting two digs die of starvation, dehydration and over-exposure to the cold was found guilty Friday." What is a dig? Is it a cross between a dog and a pig? This may be what ss_wiking was refering to, or not.
Posted by johnnybegood (anonymous) on November 23, 2009 at 12:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)
MrBojangles....an old song....he misspelled dog ie dig....these guys...refers to the McAlister's not the digs....I mean dogs. Clan refers to the family not the digs or dogs or pigs....Dogs and pigs don't cross breed efficiently. Where's PETA when you need them...with their burning crosses and hoods.
Posted by delo (anonymous) on November 23, 2009 at 9:16 a.m.
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Posted by standingby (anonymous) on November 23, 2009 at 10:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Very good post zkmd! I am certainly with you and I totally agree with your last statement! Karma, Karma! Since tax payers will be housing this waste of precious oxygen, I feel he should get the same treatment as he gave those helpless dogs. Also, make him pick up every pile of dog crap in the city limits as his punishment! Enough said.
Posted by cwomach (anonymous) on November 23, 2009 at 12:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
It seems like I'm reading more and more animal cruelty stories as of late. I'm having a discussion on my blog about what the appropriate punishment is for people like this...I'd love everyone's comments:
http://www.thedogtrainingsecret.com/blog...
Posted by leeleebelle (anonymous) on November 23, 2009 at 5:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The best punishment for this draggard scum bag would be to do the same thing to him that he did to those poor, helpless dogs. I can't stop crying to think of the torture they went through.
Posted by chiodos (anonymous) on November 24, 2009 at 5:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sometimes dogs can be more loyal to a loved one than a human.
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