Andrea Rosebrock 
On June 22, Mary Ann Stull of Connellsville, Pa, was going to be out for a few hours so she settled her 4 year old mix dog, Scooter in his outside kennel.
While she was gone, someone fed Scooter ground beef laced with ground glass shards.
Mary didn’t even realize that Scooter was hurt until the next morning when she noticed his mouth was bloody, then she found more blood.
“When I woke up, there was blood all over my bedroom floor, all over his mattress and his blankets,” Stull said.
Mary took Scooter to Grace Veterinary Clinic in Mt. Pleasant, where veterinarian John O’Laughlin discovered the shards of ground glass. Scooter’s lungs, stomach and chest cavity were filled with blood, she said.
Scooter required stitches for lacerations on his tongue. Stull said one of the dog’s lungs collapsed, but it has since reinflated. She said Scooter is recovering, but remains at risk for complications, such as emphysema.
“I’m just really, really burning mad,” Stull said. “The first few days I was scared, but now I’m just mad. This isn’t right to do this to an innocent animal. Whoever did this, they need to pay for what they did. This dog really, really suffered.”
“This was intentional. Usually when a dog eats a piece of glass, you’ll see a laceration on the mouth, or a laceration elsewhere. No, they knew exactly what they were doing, when they were doing this,” Dr. O’Laughlin said. “This is one case that you’re going to remember, and you don’t want to remember this, but he’s a good dog, nice owners. It’s a wrong situation.”
Whoever did this meant for the dog to suffer and suffer badly. It was a cruel and cowardly attack on a defenseless animal by a very sick person.
Humane officials in Fayette County want to know who fed shredded glass to Scooter and in fact, the Humane Society is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case.
Anyone with information on the identity of those responsible for hurting Scooter is asked to call the Fayette SPCA at 724-438-3121.
I know about outside kennels all to well thinking that your dog is safe in your own back yard … but now days nothing is fae out there…. I live in a small village and few years back had placed my Gremen shepard in her kennel not more then 20 feet from the house while gone one day someone must have shot her with pellet gun and she got lead poisoning the doctor needless to couldn’t save her. I know who did but upon calling the police they came out and told “OH well kids have nothing else to do in the village ” and nothing was done ….Nice of them huh? now that cop is the Capton needless to say the police dept. is nothing but a joke … I learned from there on in that my pets nor myself aren’t safe in this place so I keep an eye on them when outside and when I’m gone they are inside safe …. I learned too to take my pets to Cornell University vet hosptial. No one is safe out there .. I’m glad that the dog is recovering and my preyers go out to them both. It’s a shame that you can’t even be safe in your own back yard these days makes one sick. Hope they catch the SOB that did it….
@Katrina – Oh, Katrinia, I’m so sorry to hear about your dog, what a sad and horrible thing to go through!
Unfortunately, small town police departments run the gamut from really excellent to so pathetically bad they’re scary.Too often you have the good ole boy network running things and then you are basically SOL. It was a lesson hard learned, the loss you your baby, but now you know and won’t take chance.
After reading and covering so many stories, I am so over protective of my dogs and luckily I do live in a quite nice, friendly village with good neighbors and not too many brats running around causing trouble.
Deanna
Oh Katrina…I am so sorry…I am to the point…That if my animals are not in my sight..I am afraid for them..Inside or out!!Why??Why would anyone do such a terrible thing??Sick SOB!!I’m glad the poor thing pulled through…and please let this monster be caught before they strike again!!
This is aweful!! Why would someone do this?? This is one more reason I don’t agree with dogs being kept outside for any reason…..they are trapped when in a cage….they couldn’t get away from danger if they wanted to. Never understood why people kept dogs outside….still no reason for someone to do this…..but lets move all outside “caged” dogs inside where they belong. Don’t mean to sound rude about it but thats how I feel….