Nationwide Outrage Grows Over Gruesome Abuse of “Puppy Doe”

Source Care2
By  Susan Bird

If you hate stories about cruelty to animals, give this one a pass. It’s one of the most savagely horrific animal crimes in recent memory and it will break your heart. What’s worse is that the sick, twisted perpetrator is unknown and remains at large. Still reading? You’ve been warned.

This sweet little brindle and white pit bull puppy once had a name. She’s known to the world now as “Puppy Doe,” but once upon a time she was Kiya, and she was loved. When her owner’s landlord decided she couldn’t keep a pit bull puppy, however, a Craigslist ad found Kiya a new home. That’s when the real tragedy began to unfold.

Kiya’s new owner got rid of her a few months later, apparently because she didn’t want her anymore or couldn’t care for her. Somehow, Kiya ended up in the hands of monsters.

On August 23, a passerby found Kiya abandoned near a playground in Quincy, Mass. She was barely alive and could not walk. Authorities named her “Puppy Doe.”

“She was a Rack of Beaten Bones”

Puppy Doe had been tortured. She had been “drawn,” which is a medieval-style torture that stretches the limbs until the joints pull apart. Her wrist, ankle and elbow bones were separated from their joints, and a leg bone was almost broken in half.

“It’s a very intimate form of violence,” said Dr. Martha Smith-Blackmore, who says Puppy Doe was drawn “over and over and over.”

“I don’t know how they did it, but the force was tremendous,” she added. Dr. Smith-Blackmore said she had to take a time out from the puppy’s post-mortem examination to pull herself together before she could complete it. It was that bad. If you can bear it, read her report here.

That’s not all Puppy Doe endured, though. Not by a longshot. In additional to extreme malnourishment, Puppy Doe’s tongue had been crudely sliced in order to create a snake-like split, she’d been stabbed in the right eye, burned on the nose and beaten. She had broken ribs, broken vertebrae and crushed cheekbones.

“She was a rack of beaten bones,” said Dr. Smith-Blackmore. ”When I saw how vulnerable she was and I understood immediately the duration of her suffering, my heart collapsed.”

This ruthless torture occurred over weeks or months, according to Dr. Smith-Blackmore. It’s a wonder this poor dog was still alive. Puppy Doe got a good meal and some loving care, but it quickly became clear she had to be euthanized.

See HLN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell discuss the “Puppy Doe” case above.

Organizers have arrangements in place for a huge vigil in New York City on National Pit Bull Awareness Day, Saturday, October 26 from 5-8 p.m.

Massachusetts state senator Bruce Tarr has proposed legislation in his state called Protecting Animal Welfare and Safety (PAWS), which would increase the penalties of those convicted of abusing animals and create an animal abuse registry to prevent those convicted of animal abuse from being able to buy or sell animals.

Rewards abound for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for this soul-shattering crime. The Animal Rescue League of Boston is offering $5,000, the Animal Legal Defense Fund is offering $2,000 and Misty’s Journey/Second Chance Rescue are offering $11,000, just to name a few.

If you are interested in following the progress of the Puppy Doe case, you may want to “like” the “Justice for Puppy Doe” page on Facebook.

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we will NEVER forget you

i was born kiya, a happy pup.
then by my humans i was given up.
to hell i was sent, to suffering and pain,
each day i would wake up to more or the same.
finally i was rescued, too late i was found,
my injuries so grievous i was put down.
so in the name of others, those we may never know,
please work hard so i am the last lost puppy doe
♥
rest in peace, on angels wings. our tears still falling
as angels, sing.

Karen Lyons Kalmenson