Andrea Rosebrock 
This Sioux City man, Eldon Wabasha, 24, was partying with a cousin and her boyfriend at a friend’s house when things got a bit out of hand and Wabasha got beat up. He left the party and it wasn’t until his cousin, Jewel Starr and her boyfriend went home that they found out what Eldon had done in his anger.
Starr’s boyfriend went in the house and came back out and told Starr that her dog, a 5-month-old 20-pound mixed breed puppy named Sneegles, was bleeding from the mouth and what Starr found was a trashed bathroom and a brutally beaten, shaking and terrified puppy.
“I went in there I said, Eldon, I said what’d you do to my dog?”
“It was kind of a gruesome scene to where there was blood up the walls, blood all over the floor, everywhere,” said Animal Control Officer Cody Harrington.
The little puppy, Sneegles, lost teeth and her jaw was broken in numerous places from the brutality of the beating.
Wabasha was arrested just hours after the attack and faces Aggravated Misdemeanor charges of animal abuse with injury. His preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 26.
The puppy spent Sunday night and Monday at the vet and was released today to Animal Control to recover from surgery. Jewel Starr, who couldn’t afford the medical costs, released the puppy to Animal Control. All she wants is that the puppy recover and find a good home now.
Sneegle has got quite a road to recovery ahead of her. She’s on meds and for the next four weeks will not even be able to open her mouth and will have to have a liquid diet. She also can’t be around any other animals. A volunteer picked up up today to take care of her through her rehabilitation and recovery. Once she’s recovered, she’s be up for adoption.
As much as I’d like to give Wabasha the same kind of beating he gave that little puppy, what makes me just about as angry is that neighbors said they heard the puppy screaming and crying out for 40 minutes!! OMG! They heard the abuse, the torture and no one did anything!! The didn’t go to the house, they didn’t call the police.. nothing! To me, they are just about as guilty an the waste of life that beat the puppy. If someone had had the courage to intervene, they might have been able to save that poor baby a great deal of suffering and pain. What the hell is wrong with people that they can sit and listen to such suffering and just ignore it??
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I don’t know what bothers me more ,the puppy being injured or the idiots who waited 40 minutes , must be a high class neighborhood .How could you hear that and not do something in 10 seconds , they must have been scared of this scum .Hope he got a good beating and another very soon
How I hate following animal cruelty stories. It’s a bloody miracle this 5 month old puppy survived this beating. I would love to sentence this asshole to the same merciless beating he put on that poor puppy (X 10 to scale to human size.)
And those that listened to the beating for 40 minutes should also be charged with aiding and abetting. Why weren’t they? There is something definitely wrong with people who can do that and they need to be corrected.
Some days I wonder why I continually try to fight animal cruelty when it seems like such a lost cause. Deanna, don’t you get discouraged sometimes?
Cher…you keep fighting animal cruelty because you care. As discouraging as it gets and seemingly a lost cause, people like us can’t ever give up. We are the voices, we are the ones that really do accomplish things. We are the one’s that bleed from our hearts when we hear something terrible and we WANT to make a difference! Don’t give up…you have compassion and that is a beautiful thing. These little souls would have nobody to depend on if it were not for people like you continuing to fight for them.
Poor Sneegles, I hope this poor baby recovers and finds a loving home. The POS neighbors who stood by should also get punished. A poor little innocent puppy. This scum bag deserves to be beaten to death. This POS owner too that just let her poor puppy go. To me this means that she forgives this idiot and he is still part of the group that lives there. If she doesn’t pursue the charges on him, then she ought to be put away too. Dee, please keep us posted as I think she will drop the charges once she knows that Sneegles is okay. People who have animals and don’t love them should have that animal removed so they can have a chance for love and happiness. What is wrong with our society? I wish some of these people lived closer to me, so I could do something. Is there a judge we can write to? What a tragedy that this had to happen. This piece of scum probably couldn’t get lucky that night and took it out on Sneegles. God, look at him – not on my worse day in my worse nightmare. I hope he never sees the light of day and is forbidden from ever being around animals or children.
Scum lowlife should not be around defenseless animals , stick to their own kind .Thank God this poor puppy survived .
Another fine product this low life scum bag how I’d love to do the same to him…. I pray that sneegles finds a loveing home if not my door is always open…..
There is not one person listed regarding this terrible abuse that should not be held accountable, and that includes anyone who heard the screams and then did nothing. In addition, I think the TV news coverage should also get some shame on you finger pointing for slanting their coverage so that Jewel is seen as one of the sorrowing victims when she is not. Unless she is totally deaf or was not attending the “party” at her home, how could she not have heard Sneegles cries and did nothing. Those phony tears for the cameras are just that, phony. She is a guilty as Wabasha. To have her made out by the news station is the “sad owner of Sneegles who is too poor to get him help” is repulsive. She could have gotten him help by rushing to his aid instead of doing nothing. Let’s hope she never has children who end up being abused by a “friend”. There is only one victim here and that is Sneegles. Let’s hope than when Wabasha goes to trial, justice does not become the other victim. But maybe he will “repent” and the Philly Eagles will be willing to give him “a second chance”…as they are “so committed to doing so”.
“aggravated misdemeanor”…………..effin pitiful!!! first of all this SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED!!! 2nd. this baby was 20 pounds~that’s the weight of 2 gallons of milk!!! this ass**** should b put away. i so agree with u guys on that the “owner” is just as guilty. i pray that that wee baby will b alright. $1500 doesn’t is a lot of money in these times but by god, if that’s what it took 2 i woulda moved heaven n earth if Sneedles was mine. o wait, if Sneedles had been mine, this WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED!!!! i’ve asked ppl 2 leave my house for pushing 1 of my dogs down off a chair…….if u don’t like my dogs~u don’t like me…….
hang in there, wee Sneedles, there’s somebody out there who’s GONNA take good care of u…forever. bless u littls baby grrrl.
Right on Dru, I even changed vets because he was while not cruel at all, it did not seem like he really had affiliation for any of my. So anyone in my house knows, that I will certainly not expose them to the ankle biter chi (if he is having one of “his days”) but brother…give them a hard time….might as well be giving it to me.
OMG – I am beyond words – how sad for Sneegles.
But how on earth could people HEAR a dog yelping in agony for 40 friggin minutes??????????? They are no better than the scum that did this.
I was just glad to see the owner gave the dog up so it can get the care and home it deserves. And the tormentor was arested – let’s hope he gets the time he deserves for this.
God Speed Sneegles
this guys needs more then a good beating, I can think of a few things that this guy needs done. As far as the people that heard it. need a good bitch slap a few times. I could not let that happen, to think of the poor puppy crying out for help really bothers me.
What we need to do with all these pieces of walking garbage is sentence them to death amd put them out of their stinken misery. They aren’t worth the powder it would take to blow their a**es away. A sure cure.
It works for me.
Here’s another idea. We take up a collection to send good old Mr. Wabasha to a top notch makeover stylist and have him give W the works, so when he (hopefully) get sentenced and walks through the iron gates…he will look “REAL PURTY” to “THE BOYS” in the general population. I hear they have all kinds in there, from dog lovers to “boy lovers” and guards are often slow to respond to screaming. IF that doesn’t pan out, then we revert to other forms of putting him out of his misery.
Needs real punishment.What is happen to our world this has to be stopped.
I pray the poor baby recovers and finds a loving home…if he did this to a dog…keep in mind the next time can be a child of an adult..most people that are abusers start hurting animals first….if you hear a dog crying, don’t ignore it investigate or call the police…and remember he is out of jail only a slap on the wrist next time might be worse and might not be an animal
He should not be out he should have therapy…there is something wrong with this person and it will happen again…shame an innocent child or puppy pays the price.