[FONT=新細明體]Dead Husky's owner says he was 'training' puppy[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Trevor Wilhelm, The Windsor Star[/FONT]
Published: Monday, April 14, 2008
[FONT=新細明體]WINDSOR -- The university student who horrified onlookers by choking his four-month-old Husky, before kicking it and slamming it against a fire hydrant, said he was just trying to train the puppy.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]When police found the dog, named Kiki, it had multiple broken bones including all four legs.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Officers also seized a coffee table leg from the man's home that police believe was used to beat the dog, judging by the chunks of hair embedded in it. [/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體][/FONT][FONT=新細明體]"I used my hand to punch it a little," said Qu "Luki" Li, a second year University of Windsor business student from China. "Just small movements."[/FONT][FONT=新細明體][/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"The police man came to my house. They said I'm hurting my dog. But I think I'm training her."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Li is charged with causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. [/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Police said residents in the area of Rankin Avenue on April 4 saw a man dragging a puppy on a leash. Then he started to beat it.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"The dog was yelping," said Windsor police Staff Sgt. Ed McNorton. "He lifted it by the leash, hanging right off the ground dangling it. Obviously the dog is choking. Then he pulled it by the leash, smashed into a fire hydrant, was kicking it."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]The witnesses were so upset by the public display of violence against the helpless animal that they followed the man back to his Rankin Avenue home. [/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"They did yell at him, they said 'knock it off, quit it,' as they followed him," McNorton said. "Then he went into his house and obviously they're not going to go in there."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]After he went inside, they called police. While waiting for officers to arrive, the witnesses could hear the dog crying out in agony from inside the house, said McNorton.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"From time to time you get cases where animals are abused, but to outright beat a young animal like this to the extent that it was is truly disgusting," he said. "It's disturbing. It's only a puppy, it's an animal, there's no cause for it."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Police turned the puppy over to the Humane Society, which had to euthanize it. The dog would have required extensive medical intervention including grafting.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"The left legs were completely shattered on the dog," said Nancy McCabe, field operations manager for the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA). "There was no way we could even consider trying to surgically repair the legs."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"Two of the fractures, you could see in the X-ray, the bone looks like someone just chopped them right in half. It's terrible. I don't understand what's going on. Come on. It's a damn puppy."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]The maximum penalty for causing unnecessary suffering to an animal is a $2,000 fine and/or six months in jail.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Li said he doesn't deserve jail time. He said he was using force to train the dog.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"Here, I didn't know I need a lot of things to take care of a dog," said Li. "That I can not just punch animals."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]He said it was through the training, which involved punching the dog, that its legs got broken.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Li said that on April 4, Kiki got out an open door. He went after it, but the dog wouldn't come back. So when he caught up with it, Li said he grabbed it by the back of the neck.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"Hurt her, maybe she can understand," said Li. "I didn't know that's cruel to animals. I'm an international student, so I didn't know you have a law against cruelty to animals."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]McCabe said Kiki's plight is the latest in a number of heartbreaking animal abuse cases in Windsor, and one of the worst she's seen.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"The way this dog was beaten was just unmerciful," she said. "It was just disgusting."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Trevor Wilhelm, The Windsor Star[/FONT]
Published: Monday, April 14, 2008
[FONT=新細明體]WINDSOR -- The university student who horrified onlookers by choking his four-month-old Husky, before kicking it and slamming it against a fire hydrant, said he was just trying to train the puppy.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]When police found the dog, named Kiki, it had multiple broken bones including all four legs.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Officers also seized a coffee table leg from the man's home that police believe was used to beat the dog, judging by the chunks of hair embedded in it. [/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體][/FONT][FONT=新細明體]"I used my hand to punch it a little," said Qu "Luki" Li, a second year University of Windsor business student from China. "Just small movements."[/FONT][FONT=新細明體][/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"The police man came to my house. They said I'm hurting my dog. But I think I'm training her."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Li is charged with causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. [/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Police said residents in the area of Rankin Avenue on April 4 saw a man dragging a puppy on a leash. Then he started to beat it.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"The dog was yelping," said Windsor police Staff Sgt. Ed McNorton. "He lifted it by the leash, hanging right off the ground dangling it. Obviously the dog is choking. Then he pulled it by the leash, smashed into a fire hydrant, was kicking it."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]The witnesses were so upset by the public display of violence against the helpless animal that they followed the man back to his Rankin Avenue home. [/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"They did yell at him, they said 'knock it off, quit it,' as they followed him," McNorton said. "Then he went into his house and obviously they're not going to go in there."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]After he went inside, they called police. While waiting for officers to arrive, the witnesses could hear the dog crying out in agony from inside the house, said McNorton.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"From time to time you get cases where animals are abused, but to outright beat a young animal like this to the extent that it was is truly disgusting," he said. "It's disturbing. It's only a puppy, it's an animal, there's no cause for it."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Police turned the puppy over to the Humane Society, which had to euthanize it. The dog would have required extensive medical intervention including grafting.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"The left legs were completely shattered on the dog," said Nancy McCabe, field operations manager for the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA). "There was no way we could even consider trying to surgically repair the legs."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"Two of the fractures, you could see in the X-ray, the bone looks like someone just chopped them right in half. It's terrible. I don't understand what's going on. Come on. It's a damn puppy."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]The maximum penalty for causing unnecessary suffering to an animal is a $2,000 fine and/or six months in jail.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Li said he doesn't deserve jail time. He said he was using force to train the dog.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"Here, I didn't know I need a lot of things to take care of a dog," said Li. "That I can not just punch animals."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]He said it was through the training, which involved punching the dog, that its legs got broken.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]Li said that on April 4, Kiki got out an open door. He went after it, but the dog wouldn't come back. So when he caught up with it, Li said he grabbed it by the back of the neck.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"Hurt her, maybe she can understand," said Li. "I didn't know that's cruel to animals. I'm an international student, so I didn't know you have a law against cruelty to animals."[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]McCabe said Kiki's plight is the latest in a number of heartbreaking animal abuse cases in Windsor, and one of the worst she's seen.[/FONT]
[FONT=新細明體]"The way this dog was beaten was just unmerciful," she said. "It was just disgusting."[/FONT]
