I swear, I do not - nor do I ever - want to understand what in the hell would possess a human being to treat a puppy the way this vicious b*stard did his:
BESSEMER CITY –A man has been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly stomping a tiny puppy to death because it wasn’t house trained.
Police say a Bessemer City man confessed to killing the chihuahua mix because he was sick of the dog. He allegedly confessed while on his way to jail.
Sherry Thomas said her daughter ran to her house describing what her boyfriend had done to their new puppy.
“My daughter says she heard quite a few bangs, she didn’t know what it was til she went out and she saw blood coming out of its mouth,” Thomas said.
She says Timothy Loftis hated Tequila, the tiny chihauhua mix puppy that belonged to his girlfriend and 19-month old daughter.
Thomas said Loftis first hurt the puppy.
“(I) actually seen him toss it off the front porch, so it limped for a good three or four days,” Thomas said.
But she says she never thought he’d kill the dog.
Shirley Williams is Thomas’ other daughter and tried to save the puppy.
“Its mouth was cracked. It was thrown a couple of times and then smushed with something he stomped on it,” Williams said.
Police say Loftis confessed to “Killing the son of a …” because he was annoyed the puppy wasn’t house-trained, according to police reports. Loftis said he “just got tired of it, and stomped the damn thing.”
Williams said, “He was like well it shouldn’t have been crappin’ and peeing all over the place.”
Hopefully while he’s in prison he’ll be “crapped and peed on” enough times that he’ll regret ever touching that puppy.
And Sherry Thomas and her daughter should be charged with being an accessary to cruelty to an animal for not reporting the abuse when she first saw it.
Here’s the video report from Charlotte TV station WCNC.
RIP in doggie heaven, little Tequila.
(Photo via WCNC)
Lock the SOB in a room with about four certifiably vicious and ill-tempered pit bulls. Consider it appropriate canine vengeance. About a half hour ought to be enough.
Comment by Great White Rat @ 5/17/2008 - 12:08 am
So many just wonderful things in this story. Sadistic thug boyfriend, his girlfriend, and their 19 month old daughter. That just paints such a picture right there doesn’t it? I pity the child, if he did that to a puppy he will have no compunction about stomping the baby to death if it bothers him.
I can remember in my forensics class, one night we had the medical examiner in for a presentation. He showed picture after picture of babies and children killed, and he’d pause on each and ask “Who do you think did this?” The answer was always boyfriend, it was never husband.
Comment by Severian @ 5/17/2008 - 8:33 am
Cowardice, viciousness, anger at his own failed, miserable life. People like these are the ultimate cowards. They cannot pick on someone their own size, so they target the most helpless victims they can think of.
There’s a special level of hell for people like this guy.
Comment by NC Cop @ 5/17/2008 - 9:51 am
Absolutely. You might as well sterilize this sob right now and do us all a favor. - Lorica
Comment by Lorica @ 5/17/2008 - 10:02 am
As others have noted, a guy who does this to a puppy can, certainly will, and probably has done it to non-puppies.
But what the hell is wrong with the idiot girlfriend? I absolutely cannot accept that this popped up from nowhere. I refuse to believe that he was a nice guy, a loving partner, a good provider right up to the puppy stomping. There’s no way this is a previously unsuspected personality trait.
She made a devil’s bargain, and luckily it wasn’t her kid that was stomped to death. For now - just wait for her to get her next meal ticket.
Comment by Steve Skubinna @ 5/17/2008 - 11:53 am
The girlfiend should have run this guy off when he hurt the puppy the first time by throwing it off the porch.
I would like to volunteer to go and stomp on this guy for a while. Would anyone like to join me?
Comment by American Vet @ 5/17/2008 - 1:41 pm
Actually, Vet, I don’t want to see this guy tormented - but I would like to see him expeditiously put down as a dangerous predator.
Comment by Steve Skubinna @ 5/17/2008 - 7:54 pm