thinking of my dog, my baby beagle girl at times like this
there's a story in the news here about a cop who beat and choked his girlfriend's dog for messing up the carpet. he then SENT A PICTURE of his girlfriend's dead dog TO HER and went to work.
you can read the details here... i don't want to rehash them.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-03-05/news/bs-md-ci-officer-kills-puppy-20140305_1_baltimore-police-officer-animal-cruelty-jack-russell-terrier-puppy
he ended up turning himself in, but she made him get the body out so she could bury it. i can only imagine (or hope) she said if he didn't turn himself in, she was going to turn him in.
the details of this story are so scary to me.
my first boyfriend in high school was so mean to my dog and teased her all the time because she was scared of him. when it eventually escalated and he hurt her (he claimed he was trying to get her used to him but he was squeezing her paws together and pinching them to make her cry) i actually punched him to get him off of her and he didn't touch her again.
when he was finally physically mean to me (he pushed me down in the snow and called me a bitch--we 'broke up' at least three times a week, but this was the first time it was physical and verbal) i wouldn't get back in the car with him and i walked home 45 minutes by myself (too bad cellphones hadn't been invented yet.)
i broke up with him permanently not long after that and STILL that wasn't the end of him harassing me. (i know i know... i was in high school. it took awhile longer than it should have to notice something was WRONG.) but i should have listened to my dog. she never liked him. she knew long before i did that he was bad news. :(
but this story scares me because he had this in him the whole time we dated. i imagine he still does. but that puppy story could have been my baby girl. it could have been me. i thank everything in the universe that i figured it out sooner than later and got out relatively unscathed. others aren't so lucky.
like that little dog i can't stop thinking about. i can't help wondering if that woman saw other signs and ignored them because she won't ever forgive herself. i still feel guilty about the fear my dog experienced because of my stupid jackass ex.
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you can read the details here... i don't want to rehash them.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-03-05/news/bs-md-ci-officer-kills-puppy-20140305_1_baltimore-police-officer-animal-cruelty-jack-russell-terrier-puppy
he ended up turning himself in, but she made him get the body out so she could bury it. i can only imagine (or hope) she said if he didn't turn himself in, she was going to turn him in.
the details of this story are so scary to me.
my first boyfriend in high school was so mean to my dog and teased her all the time because she was scared of him. when it eventually escalated and he hurt her (he claimed he was trying to get her used to him but he was squeezing her paws together and pinching them to make her cry) i actually punched him to get him off of her and he didn't touch her again.
when he was finally physically mean to me (he pushed me down in the snow and called me a bitch--we 'broke up' at least three times a week, but this was the first time it was physical and verbal) i wouldn't get back in the car with him and i walked home 45 minutes by myself (too bad cellphones hadn't been invented yet.)
i broke up with him permanently not long after that and STILL that wasn't the end of him harassing me. (i know i know... i was in high school. it took awhile longer than it should have to notice something was WRONG.) but i should have listened to my dog. she never liked him. she knew long before i did that he was bad news. :(
but this story scares me because he had this in him the whole time we dated. i imagine he still does. but that puppy story could have been my baby girl. it could have been me. i thank everything in the universe that i figured it out sooner than later and got out relatively unscathed. others aren't so lucky.
like that little dog i can't stop thinking about. i can't help wondering if that woman saw other signs and ignored them because she won't ever forgive herself. i still feel guilty about the fear my dog experienced because of my stupid jackass ex.
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comments.