Andrea Rosebrock 
This lovely piece of humanity, Tracia Johnson, 34 of Cahokia, IL, has been arrested and charged with cruel treatment of animals and two violations of animals owner’s duties — all misdemeanors, in relation to this cruelly abused dog.
Last Thursday while emptying the trash, a trashman saw a little face peering up at him from the bottom of a dumpster. That face belonged to Tommy, the Throwaway Dog as he’s been dubbed by his rescuers at Hope Animal Rescue. The little black pitbull mix weighed only 30 lbs, 15-20 lbs less than he should have. There was also an electrical cord wrapped around his neck that due to having been there for so long was embedded in the flesh. Tommy was also covered in burned and cuts.
“I’m a past canine guy, so it hit me pretty hard,” said Cahokia Police Lt. James Jones. “I’ve never seen an animal in such horrible condition.”
“It appeared the dog kept getting loose, so they put an electric cord as a collar instead of a chain,” Jones explained. The cord kept getting tighter on the dog, making it nearly impossible for the animal to eat, he said.
“He was probably tied by an extension cord out in someone’s back yard and instead of petted like most of us would do with our pets he was kicked, burned, whacked with something that cut his legs,” said Jackie Spiker, Hope Animal Rescue’s co-founder.
Police believe Johnson may have tossed the dog because she believed he was dead and Jackie Spiker of Hope Animal Rescue is amazed that he was alive. The cord embedded in his neck has caused the flesh to begin to rot and the smell was horrific.
“He smelled like death,” Spiker continued. “I’ve never smelt anything like that. The vet said it was his rotting flesh … What was embedded in him was wiring and plastic, all of that stuff is going to cause a serious infection.”
On Friday Tommy was taken to Horseshoe Lake Animal Hospital and had the electrical cord surgically removed from his neck and the infection was treated. Both legs were shaved to treat the wounds and he was placed on an IV. By Saturday he was released and had already gained six pounds. Even after the cruel treatment he received, the pain he was in, Tommy was still friendly with everyone, tail wagging and giving kisses.
“It hasn’t broken his spirit I mean if you get close enough he’ll give you a kiss if you get even closer than that he’ll jump up on you,” said Spiker.
He’s got a long road to recovery, the neck wound will take about a month to heal and may require additional surgeries.
Hope Rescue will make sure it’s a happy ending for Tommy, now we just have to hope that Johnson will not have a happy ending for the cruelties she visiting upon this poor innocent baby. Of course, knowing the judicial system as we all do, it will be another slap on the wrist but it would be nice to see this bitch behind bars and deprived of a few meals… among other things I could think of.
Below is a video from shortly after Tommy was found and this story hit the media, before they tracked down Tommy’s owner;
And on a side note, our own Andrea loves to track these POSes on social networks and found this one on MySpace. Check out her page URL – http://www.myspace.com/sexyillinois – SEXY??? Not much to see on her profile, only one pic, looks a lot different from the one at the top od the story though. She sure must think she’s something tho!
Thanks for the MySpace link Andrea!
Sexy Illinois…*snort giggle*… Speaking of Illinois, can someone from Illinois explain why this Hambeast only got charged with misdemeanors????
This might have something to do with it Andrea;
Guess we better get the people of Illinois to get their laws changed.
That poor dog. Its amazing what they can go thru and still live.
they need to throw her in a dumpster god what is wrong with people no respect for living creatures
Wow, what her face looks like a piece of shit/trash. She is a low life scum that fed on an innocent animal that relied on her for everything. animals need humans as we need them for companionship, protection etc. I would like to know where she found that wig or pieced of so called hair extensions. Today alot of women are into using fake hair, what a con artist I would say and liar and so forth. Maybe that hair was growning on her ugly butt and decided to use it on her stupid head with no brains or the size of a pea. Thats what abusers human or animals are, low life sums that feed off other peoples emotions etc for self gratification making them feel better, oh i am sure someone in prison will make her feel better alright I hope she gets the crap beaten out of her slowly and painfully and left there to die and fen for herself with no food. how would she feel then. and by the way she is the ugliest piece of crap I have ever seen, what a mess.
Maybe she should spend time on getting a regular job , but is probably as stupid as she looks . Lowlife loser rot in HELL , good quick arrest .
My motto, first time is the last time, if given a second chance these idiots dont understand that and now we have this situation. She should get 5 min 10 tops if the dog died well then its her nasty ugly butt for life. I dont tolerate any abuse of any kind. Im a mother and no one no one better touch my child. I will have the authorities right there. As a parent or animal lover it is our responsibility for those who are smart enough to know that to care for our kids and animals. anything less than that is less of person in my book. There should be an animal offenders registry just like sex offenders.
When I sent President Obama the articles last night I also asked him if he would start a special unit that would have full jurisdiction everywhere thats job would be to deal with all this animal abuse that is going on and running rampant. Each area would have a unit and they would have the authority to go in and check on any animals no matter where or who had them, also arrest and prosecute the POS that need to be delt with. I hopehe will, then all these so called shelters, etc., and POS would no longer walze in and get a slap on rgw wrist. You could kiss that Good Ol Boy insanity ~ Goodbye ~ once and for all.
This bitch needs to get whats comeing to her,and I mean whats coming to her. Wouldn’t it be nice if the President took my sugestion and I got hired. You all know if that happened these pikes would know they were getting punish : )For Sure!
the garbage man would do us a great service if he took out this piece of trash instead
Oh, I like that thought Franc! Thanks!
D.
That is an insult to the rest of the trash .
Ok, probably true Terry! LOL
what a fat ugly piece of shit!!! sexy??? hahahahahahahahaha i think not…unfortunatley she wont get what she deserves…they dont have the death penilty yet for this…one can wish cant they??
Leave a reply….it sort of causes me to freeze. What does one say in response to such an unthinkable act of cruelty? If this was Year 1, perhaps I might be able to dig down and try to understand, but 2009? WE’re being invaded by neandethals and cro-magnons. Where in the hell are they coming from?
Misdemeanors. Unbelievable!
What do you do with “crack-heads” like this slob? They are worthless, they contribute nothing to the betterment of society. I cringe to think she may have children. Oh, god those poor little souls!
Once again, I urge every resident of Illinois who has learned about this to either call his/her elected officials, or write and demand stronger laws, community education programs and a limit to who can and SHOULD own an animal. Too bad we can’t require higher standards for procreating. Much of the jail trash like this one would never be spawned to begin with.
Excuse me while I go throw up!
Dear Tommy, please believe that all humans are not like what had you in their grips. You are in a good place now and you will heal and come to know the best that humanity has to offer. In turn, I know that you are destined to be a model of courage, grace and forgiveness. And just think–You’re a dog!!
Hugs and kisses to you, Sweet Boy!
Thank God for the kindness and smart forethought of the officer who was called and this precious baby wasn’t taken to Animal Control. On the web page for this facility, they said at ACC he would have been PTS that very night and nobody would have ever known about Tommy. His pictures there just break my heart even more. How does anyone look into those innocent, fearful eyes and keep on tormenting him? I firmly believe there is a special place in Hell reserved for all animal abusers.
You know it just gets worse every time I get an email from you, this woman is scum yes she is the scum of the earth, I think there should be bigger penalty’s for cruelty to animal and one of them should be prison, look what it did to that guy who was caught having dog fights and hopefully she would meet an animal lover in prison who would give her a really bad time.
I wish I could meet her she would be thrown in a dumpster with handcuffs on.
should put this on her myspace page! make her look horrible and teach others a lesson or 2 about animal abuse. you freakin stupid piece of black scum dont deserve shit!
She looks like shit anyway , this has nothing to do with looks , it’s a complete lack of morals ,she is a lowlife bastard with no future .
As much fun as it is to call her the names she deserves and wish for her to rot in Hell for all eternity, there are more practacle and helpfull things we could do. Does anyone know where she is being sentanced and by who? A nice show of support for the dog may encourage the judge to give her the max penalty the current law allows. The most influential letters will be those from the voters of IL, but letting the judge know that incidents like these cast a bad light on ALL of IL. can’t hurt. Also letters urging tougher animal protection laws can be sent to the Governor, Senator and Congressperson. No change will be prompted by complaining about this in a blog, we have to be moved to action. The question is, are you mad enough to send a written letter or and email or even make a phone call? Anyone have the address to that court?
Robyn, she was just arrested Tuesday. When more info becomes available it will be updated so that letters, emails and calls can be made as we do often.
D.
COOL. Thankx.
horrible piece of trash is right, and that poor dog even had to be captured in such a frightening manner, she needed brought down like that, will track this for future action, please anyone post anything here that you find, we need to get our view across.
my God, tie any human up like that, of course they want loose, who wants chained outside, alone, was he being fed and watered properly? can’t get past his poor little guys horror.
We/I can only hope and pray that a drug dealer kills her for not paying or she gets killed ina drive by shooting. Rid the earth of heartless scum. They won’t be missed by anyone human or non human.
How about an overdose , I will pay for the heroin and administer it
Here is the link for Hope Animal Rescue, where Tommy was taken. They are posting updates on this sweet little guy with pictures to show his progress. He has already gained 6 pounds! They truly love him, and it shows. Thank goodness he was taken there, where he can know love and kindness for the first time in his precious life.
http://www.hoperescues.com/Tommy.html
As an Illinoisian, I do admit our laws are a bit lax, but I have been trying to voice my opinion with some of the local governmental officials, and most recently the dogfighting that occurred in Maywood, which is too close for comfort. As far as I am concerned, there is no second chance for an animal/child abuser. Something is twisted in their heads for anyone to do that – or they have short circuted their brains on drugs or alcohol.
Off to that island Jessie has designated for all thes aholes!
I prefer the *Alien Sucked Out The Brains Syndrome”.
NJ is no different. We have a useless State Attorney General. She does not respond to consumer complaints on unethical breeders and puppy brokers. And other consumer complaints as well. Now we have a new governor. Hope he cleans out Trenton and tosses HER out.
keep us updated, a letter or email to suggest no leniency & justice served—thanks
was he actually tossed into the dumpster or was the poor Baby looking for a meal? was he foreced to go to that end? he would have been crushed by the dumpster if he hadn’t been rescued.
I mean how can a person eat so much and starve any animal???
you’re right Barbara, we need some action, what court do we write too, does anyone have the name of a judge?
I don’t know how much more I can stand looking at the cruelty bestowed on our beautiful, sweet, canines, as well as other animals. Those eyes, Tommy’s terrified, confused eyes, would haunt me forever, had I found the little precious. Another reason, I have always had such a high regard for the Animal Kingdom, and such a low regard for the humans. Most of them make so sick. I can only hope and pray they will get what is coming to them/what they deserve, when they cross over…..to the right side of lucifer….to forever burn in hell!
When I first saw this last week I actually went to her page on myspace and of course I left her a message,wont say wot I said and many other AR myspacers did the same so she is getting bombarded with messages and hopefully will delete her page,in fact we went as far as contacting myspace to see if they would delete her for us but they haven’t!
Poor poor Tommy! Thank God he is recovering!
Dea … do you know whether facebook can ban this Piece of Shit from using the site if they know what she had done?
Gina, FB can ban and delete account but seldom ever do it. I wouldn’t hold my breath. They have dogfighters with vids on their profiles and won’t remove them.
D.
Thank you Dea for the information. Do have a great weekend!
Ok… I think this person is completely horrible, and a total mess. And I am as angry as any of you about it. But you all sound so crazy and vengeful, and in some cases totally racist. Who cares about her appearance or weight, like if it was some really attractive white person, what would you say then? This is not just a situation of “evil”. It is a socio-psychological and class situation, a really messed up and depressed person who if maybe had been treated better in her life, would have made better choices in life. It is sad. I am not giving her a free pass on this at all, I am angry at her as well, but it is unfortunately not such a simple scenario as “she is evil”. And interesting how much you all call her a “bitch”. I thought you loved dogs! I know that I am going to get creamed for this. But our energy would be much better if we were out there educating and doing outreach within poorer communities.
Robb, who the hell are you to tell us how to respond, act, and what we are allowed to say? You just don’t get it, and don’t ever EVER tell us that maybe she would have made better choices in life had she been treated better. WTF?????
You apparently do not understand what this blog/website is all about. It is a website for those of us who love dogs, unconditionally, as they love us, and for this site to be a sounding board for our hatred, our agressions, our disturbance, how it hurts deep in our hearts and souls that ANY animal be abused/mutilated or killed.
Where did you come from? If we call her a bitch, we have every damn right to do so. Ever hear of Freedom of Speech? I tell you, I have a few names to call this “person”, but will hold my tounge.
You apprently have not read many other stories on this site, because if you had, you would understand what most of us do on this blog. We are the voices for the animals, for they cannot speak for themselves, so we are their advocates, near and far, and we will be heard, so atrocities such as this, do not happen ever again. We are adament about writing to our politicians, to judges, to attornies handling cases, we phone these people, we RESCUE these animals when we can, before they are murdered or abused, we transport them from one city to another, we foster these babies, and teach them that not all people are evil, and that they can trust humans again.
Don’t ever, ever tell us that we should spend our engergy educating and doing outreach within poorer communities. Are you saying that all abuse/neglect/murder only happens in poor communities?
Robb, personally, I am asking you to get the hell off this site, cause you have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
GO AWAY MORON
To Susie, you could not have said it better. Way to go.
thanks Franc! Ohh how I hate it when people tell us how to handle things. I don’t see them out on the front lines like alot of us.
Robb, you need to be clear about this site. This is a place where we are informed of the horrors that are occurring all around the globe with the precious dogs. Here, we can rant and rave, shout and scream to the rafters and be safe in doing it. It’s where we vent all of the pent up frustrations we encounter with animal cruelty laws that are as worthless as the scum under someone’s shoe.
But what you’re not seeing is the work each of us does behind the scenes. Some are active rescuers, a job I could never do because my heart would literally break since I couldn’t save them all. Others work writing letters, sending emails, signing petitions, making phone calls, doing whatever each of us can to make a difference for the animals…..to be their voice.
We have to concentrate on the cruelty laws (or lack thereof) and not any outreach into communities to educate these people. That’s up to the communities themselves to do. In a perfect world, yes that would be a fantastic thing. In the real world, communities are stretched to the limit already. It’s up to the lawmakers and those who enforce those laws to finally wake up and do more than slap the wrists of the offenders. THEN they might get whatever help they need, once “in the system”. But we’ve seen it over and over again, where absolute horrors are inflicted upon innocent animals and the perpetrators walk away virtually scott free.
So, we rant here. We rail at the unfairness of the judicial system. We cry for the precious ones who were hurt, maimed or killed in the process and saw NO justice whatsoever. I for one am eternally grateful to D for allowing us to have this space to do just that. But don’t think for one minute that we aren’t trying to do something, anything to make a difference where it counts.
Robb, you know I am totally sic to death of hearing how if people would have had it better or if they hadn’t had such a horible childhood.They could have turned out to be well adjusted humane beings.Socio-psychological and class situation, a stale excuse to say the least. Well here’s a flash. There are millions of people out there that had horible childhoods and offal things have been done to them and guess what, they are still decent caring humane beings. I can attest to that personally. The people that do these kinda crimes are evil incarnate. And race has nothing to do with it. These mutants (because I personally do not consider ANY of them humane beings) come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. And they are all works of art, not to mention the poorest excuses for humane beings that ever walked the face of the earth. Who s only bravery and backbone is present when they have a defenseless little creature in their grips. So I call it like I see it! These low life #$%^^ don’t get what they deserve and that is put out of their misory. If you want to have pitty and compassion for anyone, try giving it to the victims, they are the ones that deserve that.
And I never call a dog a bitch. I have more respect for them than that. I don’t know who had the IQ to lable these beautiful creatures that, but an IQ is not what I personally would say they had.
I find it rather sad how, there are so many people out there that are always trying to give the wretched vermon of this earth an excuse. Well there is no excuse, period. And they need to be given the punishment to match the crime. Way to much emphasise is placed on , they are human beings. That doesn’t give the a get out of jail freepass.
So if you want to call me crazy or vengeful – go right ahead. I know I am tired of nothing ever being done to these visceous things that only look humane!
wtg excal!
Check out the 11/15/09 update and picture of Tommy. He has gained 17 pounds!
http://www.hoperescues.com/Tommy.html
Amazing what a little love can do! God bless these people for what they’re doing for him.
Bonnie, thank you for the web site! I was going to go there during work today, but did not have a chance.
Tommy looks so beautiful, and finally has some happiness showing in his eyes. The fact that he thinks everyone coming near him wants to play, and finally knowing what a toy is, makes my heart jump with joy. I know first hand what rescue is, and what the volunteers put into taking care of these homeless babies, and teaching them that not all humans are rotten evil people. All these animals want from us humans is love, compassion, understanding, a home where they will be treated like royalty (as they should)and fed and exercised properly. They are amazing animals, and so misunderstood sometimes.
I only have this to say about Robb……HERE! HERE! to you Susie and you Excalibur and Bonnie. Applause, applause applause. I give you ALL a standing ovation…..terrific words and great defense for our beloved canines AND D’s site as well. Thank the good Lord above for everyone of us here to help, love, protect and stand up for those that scream out so loudly from the abuse they endure, every minute of their sad little lifes, and the fools, like the one in this article are completely deaf and heartless to those cries! Their wretched, useless lifes do nothing but continue to inflict pain on harmless, innocent, defenseless, furbaby’s that ask for nothing from this horrid world they are thrown into except a little love and care from their human companions. This worthless slime, needs to be put out of all of those helpless baby’s miseries. She deserves nothing in this world except hatred and to be spit on every chance someone has. Anyone, that feels she deserves ANY kind of “compassion”, need not be on this site, because this is NOT where that worthless POS will get any thing of the sort! I can not even BEGIN to know how many countless tears have flowed from my eyes, as well as the others here, over the atrocities inflicted on the helpless by things that should have NEVER been born and once born, should have been fixed and had a frontal lobotomy, therefore sitting in a loony bin rocking back and forth, drooling and staring at a wall the rest of their worthless lifes. I despise these horrid things walking this earth and pray every day that this cruelty comes to a rapid halt and all these precious animals live forever in peace. But, alas, I am well aware, that even though God is doing all He can, to save as many of his furchildren He can, this is a day I and others, sadly will not see until we cross over and see all the peace He offers on the other side. So, bottom line Robb, you need to take the “awww…poor thing had a rough life” somewhere else. No sympathy will come from anyone here. Keep in mind, a lot of the people on this site (including myself), had a pretty rough upbringing as well, and feel more compassion than words can ever say towards all those that can not stop their abusers from the torture they have to live on a daily basis. If anything, the ones here, on D’s site, fight harder and love more and care more for all those that can not stop their abusers for EXACTLY the reason’s you state we should feel sorry for these pond slime’s that deserve to be put away forever!! So, Robb, if your still out there and listening, maybe NOW, you will understand what we are all on here for and what we are all fighting for and it’s not for the POS’s like this one!
We are with you, Jessie, God Love Ya.
Thank you excalibur……meant every word I said, and still do. Funny…..no word from Robb anymore. Guess he got the message! Yipeeee!!!!!
Oh…and BTW….God does love me. He tells me so every day! He loves you as well, my friend.
Bonnie…..just checked out the update on Tommy. What a beautiful story and can not say enough good for the officer that saved him. He is a very happy dog indeed….now. I was so pleased to see how well he is doing and the happiness that beams all over his face. Very touching. Those people are truly angels…..every single one them, that helped this precious puppy. Now, onward, to finding him a fabulous furever family to love and play with him for the rest of his happy go lucky life!
Just thought I’d let you know that Tommy has been ADOPTED!!!! YAY!!
You can read all about his updates here:
http://www.hoperescues.com/Tommy.html
that’s wonderful, ty Janet for this great update
To the sanitation worker that found little Tommy and the Hope Animal Rescues Thank You dear hearts and may you each and everyone of you have “A Very Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year”
And this gos for all the rest of you wonderful, careing, kind hearted, compassionate souls out there.
“God Bless You One And All”
“Merry Christmas”
And perhaps the New Year will see a change for the better, for all the beautiful animals and other innocent creatures, that suffer at the hands of humane beings.
this big fat pig looks like she should starved
to death.she tortured this dog .i would do to her
what she did to the dog. put her ijn a dumpster the
fat pig. anyone that does that to a dog should rot
in prison for life.hope she goes to prison bitch.