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03-28-2007, 08:22 PM
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By GLENN COUNTS / WCNC
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In most home invasions, the crooks are looking for money or other valuables. But police say what made one recent crime very different was that the target was an 11-week-old pit bull puppy.
Over the weekend, two armed men burst into an apartment where James Rawlings was visiting his father.
“People ain’t gonna come in your house like that and crash through your door without being prepared to kill you,” Rawlings said.
The suspects didn’t want money. They came looking for the pit bull puppy.
“He said, ‘Is that it right there?’ And his partner, the one who had the gun on me, said, ‘Yeah, that’s it.’ And he jumped over the bed and grabbed the little puppy by the back of the neck and they took off out the door,” Rawlings said. “(They) told me (if) I come out or tried to follow they was gonna kill us and everything else.”
The Humane Society of Charlotte says the stolen puppy could be facing a grim fate; there is an illegal market for pit bulls, and they’re often used in training other dogs for fighting.
“It’s unfortunate to think of people who would use an animal for the sake of fighting or to be used as bait to eventually die,” said David Miller with the Humane Society.
Rawlings says he bought the puppy for $500 and he thinks it could be sold for as much, if the suspects didn’t trade it for drugs.
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In most home invasions, the crooks are looking for money or other valuables. But police say what made one recent crime very different was that the target was an 11-week-old pit bull puppy.
Over the weekend, two armed men burst into an apartment where James Rawlings was visiting his father.
“People ain’t gonna come in your house like that and crash through your door without being prepared to kill you,” Rawlings said.
The suspects didn’t want money. They came looking for the pit bull puppy.
“He said, ‘Is that it right there?’ And his partner, the one who had the gun on me, said, ‘Yeah, that’s it.’ And he jumped over the bed and grabbed the little puppy by the back of the neck and they took off out the door,” Rawlings said. “(They) told me (if) I come out or tried to follow they was gonna kill us and everything else.”
The Humane Society of Charlotte says the stolen puppy could be facing a grim fate; there is an illegal market for pit bulls, and they’re often used in training other dogs for fighting.
“It’s unfortunate to think of people who would use an animal for the sake of fighting or to be used as bait to eventually die,” said David Miller with the Humane Society.
Rawlings says he bought the puppy for $500 and he thinks it could be sold for as much, if the suspects didn’t trade it for drugs.