Andrea Rosebrock 
In the past two months three McPhearson County, KS, dogs have been stolen from their homes, then within a couple of days, shot dead and left near the owners homes. The first incident happened in late April. The Rausch family’s two labs, Baby and Taylor disappeared only to be found a day and a half later dumped on the side of the road a couple miles from their home. Both dogs had been shot in the neck and Taylor had mud a debris shoved into his mouth.
April Rausch believes the dog were stolen because Baby was recovering from a recent surgery and they wouldn’t have wandered far.
“It was just very upsetting to know that somebody had done something like that,” says Rausch, “something so cruel.”
Three days later another dog, a German Shepherd, was stolen then two days later turned up dumped in the owner’s driveway, shot in the head.
“They held ours for a day,” says Rausch. “They took (the German Shepherd) for two-and-a-half days. They’ve got to be holding them somewhere. We’re hoping somebody would have seen that somebody had some dogs that didn’t belong to them, had them for a very short time.”
At this point authorities don’t know if these dog-nappings and killings are linked, that the same person or person committed these crimes but they are looking for information and investigating. The Rausch family has offered a reward that is now up to $2300 and the HSUS has added a $2500 reward to that.
Crimes like this do not happen in a vacuum, someone must have seen something, someone knows something! Help to get the word out. Let’s try to get some justice for these brutally killed innocents and find out who did this. Next time it may not be “just a dog” because it has been proven that people who will abuse and kill animals are only a step away from doing the same to people.
Anyone with information is asked to call the McPherson County Sheriff’s Office at 620-245-1225.
that is so sad
i hope it dosent happen to anyone else!
and i hope they catch the murdera
OMG, I am sitting here crying. These poor babies, and the owners of these babies must be heartbroken. What the hell is wrong with our society that someone can do this????
As you said D, someone knows what is going on. Maybe someone will say something in a bar, and hopefully another patron will go to the police. This is so sickening, and I hope to hell these people or person is caught and have the same thing done to them. In this case, I am all for being a vigilante.
I think one of the scariest things is that the person or persons doing this actually kept the dogs for some period of time before they killed them. It breaks my heart to think how scared those poor babies were, ripped from their home and loving families to go through who knows what, only to be killed.
Whoever did this needs to be caught in a serious way! And yes, stories like this make me feel the same way, there needs to be justice and the “justice system” so seldom metes out anything close to true justice.
D.
OMG, I can’t believe that someone would steal an animal unless they are using them for some experiment or fighting. Regardless, this needs immediate attention. If someone ever hurt my Sage, I would go for the throat and plead insanity. These poor people. They probably raised these poor babies from puppies that surely became part of the family. It is like killing a family member. Someone out there knows something and if they don’t come forward they are as guilty as the person or persons that did this. What beautiful dogs too. Our society needs a desperate restructuring. I say take the scum out to the towns square and execute them for all to see. Maybe that will start to wake people up. May these poor babies enjoy their time now with GOD. I know it will be extremely hard for Rausch family to get over this and the other family as well.
I honestly hope the police do NOT find who is responsible for these acts.
I hope someone that feels the way I do about this finds them first.
very sick people…tell u what tho…if and when they caught them..if it were my dogs..id find a way to get my hands on them and they mite wish they were the dead dogs at that point
I’m with you Karen. Whoever did this unspeakable cruelity, deserves nothing but the worst possible torture and death for all the public eye to see. OMG! Like Susie, both of us having Labbie’s, I am ripped to shreds over this one. My Sage is such a sweet, loving, funny Lab, that I can’t even begin to imagine what hell those poor baby’s went through before they were shot/murdered. Maybe the authorities in that area can do a balistic’s check on the bullets and track down these nightmare scum by that. Those poor sweet pups. Two, wonderfully, devoted, loving breeds. This truly makes me extremely sick to my stomach and my heart. I feel just terrible for the family’s of these precious baby’s. I know they are just heartbroken. RIP sweet baby’s…..your with God now and He will take very good care of you. Just keep watching over your families like you always did while with them on this cruel earth.