OHMIDOG! : Dog shot 32 times was also poisoned

In case shooting him 32 times wasn’t enough, police say the killer of a 10-year-old American bulldog also surrounded him with poison-filled hot dogs before leaving him tied at a country club fence to die.

Kane, a 10-year-old American bulldog was found alive, as we reported yesterday, but had to be euthanized.

On Tuesday, Kane’s owner, Paul Bevan-Xenelis, the former superintendent of the Doylestown Country Club’s golf course, was arraigned on animal-cruelty charges. He’d adopted the dog about five months earlier as a pet for his family.

Doylestown Township Police Chief Stephen White told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he found the case “mind-boggling … I don’t know how that kind of cruelty gets into somebody, but this is not a mistake. When you shoot a dog 30-plus times and then leave the dog to suffer, it’s just nuts.”

Bevan-Xenelis, 39, told police that the dog had become aggressive and had bitten a coworker. He said he had shot the dog only once and thought he had killed it.

His defense attorney, David Knight, said of Bevan-Xenelis, “He’s a little upset … This is all new to him. He’s never had a problem with the law.”

Bevan-Xenelis was fired last week from the country club. He had worked there 10 years and is married with two children, 9 and 6. The police chief said said it appeared that Bevan-Xenelis had been keeping the dog at work with him because he did not want it around his family.

Police were called to the club at 9 a.m. July 24 and found Kane lying beneath a fence behind a maintenance building.

Anne Irwin, executive director of the Bucks County SPCA, said that because of the extent of the dog’s injuries, there was no choice but to euthanize him.

Police confirmed that Kane had bitten a country club employee two days earlier.

Kane had been evaluated as gentle and child-friendly when he was adopted from All4Paws Rescue Inc. of Chester Springs, said director Kristen Schlichtig.

Bevan-Xenelis had been carefully screened before the adoption was approved, she added.  Neighbors vouched for him and reference and background checks were conducted, Schlichtig said.

“This has been a nightmare,” she said. “We did nothing wrong, but I have to live with the fact that I handed this guy the leash. I’m not even sleeping.”

(Photo by Larry King / Philadelphia Inquirer)



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the people who done this should hang they are sick bastards

 

hanging is to easy for them.... do the 1000 cuts torture on them.

 

Not to make light of such a horrible way to treat a dog but how bad is your aim if you shoot a dog close range 32 times and still don't put it down.

 

It was with a pellet gun. Kind of like throwing a hundred darts instead of just stabbing.

 

Lol ok that makes sence then. I must of missed that part.

 

It was on an earlier thread.

 

shot 32 times and still alive! Until I read the part about the pellet gun I thought "Damn that dog was GAME!" 32 times! Come on if you have to kill it just use a real gun and put one in its head. Better yet dont adopt a dog you know nothing about!

 

yeah thats lame as hell

 

Lets shoot this coward 32 times & leave him tied up to a fence scumbag