COSBY, Tenn. (WVLT) – A Cocke County man discovered his canine overwhelmed to demise after going lacking. Now, he’s making an attempt to determine who’s accountable. And this isn’t the one case of maximum canine abuse within the space.
“I was stunned,” Tanner Russell stated when he discovered his six-month-old canine Marvin useless. Russell stated Marvin went lacking a couple of weeks in the past and located his canine a couple of days later in a bag on the aspect of a street.
“His head was kind of beat in,” he stated. “I don’t know how I’d explain it without it sounding the worst, but that’s what it was; it was the worst.”
Russell stated Marvin had dents in his head and was coated in blood.
“If you would have seen him, you could tell it was intentional,” Russell stated.
Now, Russell is making an attempt to determine who’s accountable. He lives in Cosby, which is a rural group in Cocke County.
“Everybody knows everybody, more or less. All the neighbors knew him. It wasn’t like anybody disliked him,” Russell stated.
The Smoky Mountains Humane Society stated they’ve seen a number of circumstances of canine abuse. The vice chairman stated a second canine was discovered with a gunshot wound to the face, occurring in the identical space as the primary, simply days after Marvin was discovered useless.
“It would suggest that there is a person involved with this,” stated Sara Kenney, Vice President of the Smoky Mountains Humane Society.
Kenney stated she isn’t conscious of the penalty for the person accountable however is encouraging folks to succeed in out to the Cocke County Sheriff’s Office in the event that they see circumstances of animal abuse.
“There’s different levels of abuse. This is extreme,” Kenney stated.
Russell stated he filed a report with the Cocke County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff stated they’re investigating.
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