pet connection

First, the missionary-abducting dog-cloner.

Then, the mistress whose daddy had horses killed for insurance money.

Now, and in my own back yard, the trash dog-owners whose animals mangled a utility worker, who then likely stole the dogs from animal control and, finally, were caught on a parking lot camera purse-snatching (at my supermarket, by the way). Tracked to a hotel and confronted by a detective, the dirtbags let their dogs get out — and the animals then attack a nearby maintenance worker.

The detective shot and killed both dogs. I’m kinda disappointed that no stray bullets accidentally hit … ahhhhh, nevermind.

Their past? The dirtbags had previously sued the city of Richmond after police there killed another of their dogs. I’m guessing now we have a pretty good idea the dog was aggressive (as the officer claimed) not a benign pet (as the dirtbag owners claimed).

In all this attacking and shooting, it really is too bad nothing got on the dirtbags.

From the San Jose Mercury News:

A couple who won a $210,000 judgment against Richmond after police shot their pit bull went to jail in Sacramento this week after their new pets mauled a hotel maintenance worker, county sheriffs said. Sacramento County sheriff’s detectives, looking for 41-year-old Cynthia Peters and 43-year-old Mark Parr in connection with an unrelated robbery investigation, found them in a hotel.

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The couple’s two pit bulls, Brutus and Smokey, charged into the hallway and “shredded” some of the maintenance man’s limbs, [sheriff's Sgt. Tim] Curran said. Peters rushed into the hall and tried to pull them off, but a detective shot and killed both dogs when she could not.

Peters and Parr sued the Richmond Police Department after officers chasing a suspect shot and killed their dog, a pit bull named Blu [...] in July 2005. Police and witnesses differed about whether the dog acted aggressively. [...] After the incident, Peters and Parr moved to Carmichael [a Sacramento suburb] with their two new dogs. They ran afoul of the Sacramento Sheriff’s Office in June, Curran said.

“A Sacramento Municipal Utility District worker was sent to the house to investigate a report that the residents were stealing power,” Curran said. “When he approached the yard, he was attacked by two pit bulls that came through an unlatched gate in the fence. He was severely bitten on his arms and legs.”

Sacramento County Animal Control confiscated the dogs, an order came down July 9 to destroy them. The evening of July 8, however, someone cut through the fence at the pound on Bradshaw Road in Sacramento County, cut the locks on the cages containing the dogs, and took them. The facility lacks security cameras, Curran said, and authorities lacked evidence of the culprit.

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They found them Wednesday. The clerk at the hotel desk confirmed the couple was staying there, but did not know they had animals with them.

Too bad the dirtbags don’t have to give the money back. But since they were arrested for purse-snatching, I’m guessing none of it’s left anyway.