Dog torture videos lead to two arrests
A 22-year-old man and a 13-year-old boy were arrested in Chicago after torturing five puppies and posting videos of it on YouTube, police said.
Joshua Moore, the adult, told police he did it because he was bored, and that he thought “it was not a big deal.”
The videos showed dogs — both the pups and their parents — having duct tape put on their testicles and ripped off, being suspended and spun in a harness, being forced to drink lemon juice and eat their own feces, and being thrown into air, choked and shaken.
The grown dogs were a Chihuahua and a terrier; the pups were mixes of the two, police said.
Moore and the boy were arrested Thursday and charged with animal torture and animal cruelty — all felonies. Moore was ordered held on $150,000 bail today.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the torture came to light when a tipster contacted People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
PETA reported the cruelty to the Fort Wayne, Ind., Animal Care and Control officials on Sunday, after learning that Moore was from Chicago but living in Fort Wayne.
On Tuesday, officers in Fort Wayne questioned Moore, who they said admitted he was in the videos. When Moore returned to Chicago Thursday, city police arrested him.
The dogs were seized Thursday from a home in the Austin neighborhood and placed in the care of Chicago’s animal care and cruelty department.
The videos were removed from YouTube before the arrest, but PETA had made copies of them by then.
(Top photo: By John J. Kim / Chicago Sun-Times
Middle photo: Screen grab from videos, courtesy of PETA
Bottom photo: Chicago Police Department)
Posted by jwoestendiek March 9th, 2012 under Muttsblog.
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Comments
Comment from manuel
Time March 9, 2012 at 10:06 pm
Thank god for idiots who post their misdeeds on youtube. It makes catching them so much easier.
Comment from Laura Hudson
Time March 9, 2012 at 11:05 pm
How stupid!!!!! Hey I am a pet owner and I find this so outrageous!!!!! Hope they both get punished for their crimes and dogs find better loving people than them two!!!!
Comment from ljb
Time March 10, 2012 at 9:03 am
IDIOTS so pickes on tiny dogs ,….too much of a chump to pick on a big german bred dobbie or rottie ….i hope someone gets this guy in a dark alley and does the same to him…and someone eventually will
Comment from vida
Time March 9, 2012 at 8:18 pm
This is just…unbearable. Thank heavens someone came forward and the police took action. How anyone could do such things is beyond me, what an act of cruelty and betrayal. I hope the teen is still salvageable, I hope the adult is too but honestly I don’t have as much hope in my heart these days as I’d like.