AR-News: (US-WA) Dog disappears in area with history of mutilations

[jim robertson]

http://www.komotv.com/stories/29465.htm

'How Dare They Do This Dastardly Thing!'

January 25, 2004

By Michelle Esteban


MASON COUNTY - It's all puppy love between Phyllis Savoie and her beloved 
dogs.

"We're very funny in this family, none of our animals know they're animals!" 
she laughed.

They're family - but it's a broken family.

Last month Coal, the one-year-old black lab of the family, disappeared.

"I'm very very upset and very intensely, I don't want it to happen to 
someone else," she said.

Savoie's worried, because in less than a year, three of her six dogs have 
vanished.

On December 7th, Coal joined Patriot, Mischief and Shotzy for a run on 
Savoie's 10 acres. Coal never came home.

"Oh dear! All I could say was Oh dear God! Not again!" she remembered.

Neighbors say black labs have been disappearing. Most of from a rural 
section North of Shelton. We counted two more black labs and a cat missing 
on this local bulletin board.

There's also the case of two other labs that went missing and came up dead. 
They were both were mutilated, skinned, and dumped in a plastic bag on the 
side of the road. One lived near Savoie in Mason County, the other in nearby 
Kitsap County.

Rance McEntyre says, It's disturbing, even to the seasoned animal control 
officer. There's a reward for information that leads to an arrest.

'I was so angry, so angry! How dare they do this, how dare they do this 
dastardly thing," exclaimed Savoie. She worries her black lab may have been 
snatched by the same culprit. Until she knows for sure, she's keeping a 
close watch on her family.

"I'm not a detective, but my goodness sake, I know something is fishy in 
Denmark," she said.

Savoie hopes her interview will prompt someone to come forward and lead to 
an arrest. There is a $6,000 reward for information.






"I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein

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