Anti-Cruelty Team action alert (a drunk shoots son's puppy)

[Omaha Steve]

Dear ALDF Anti-Cruelty Team Member:

Show Your Support For The Prosecution! Write The Judge By June 27th!

An Ohio man who was charged with animal cruelty for shooting his son's 6-month-old dog with a pellet rifle has plead guilty on what was to be the day of his trial. Benjamin Lovejoy also plead guilty to discharging a firearm, using a weapon while intoxicated and aggravated menacing. Four other counts were dismissed.


Photo of the late Emily. (If you look closely you can see the marks in her fur where the pellets entered her paws.)

Lovejoy has admitted to shooting the puppy, Emily, twice, hitting her with 90 pellets that fractured her front leg in three places. She was left to bleed to death, but someone called 911 and police were able to get her to an emergency clinic. Lovejoy reportedly did it because he was angry with his son and his son's mother. Because the son was close to the puppy, he shot her. Emily was recovering from her injuries, but tragically, her brief, tortured life was cut short when she was struck by a car on June 2 while in foster care.

The prosecutor is taking the case very seriously and is asking for one year in jail, in addition to what he has already served. To show your support for the prosecution and urge the judge to sentence Lovejoy to the full extent of the law, including a prohibition from future contact with any animals and mandatory psychiatric treatment, write:

The Honorable Judge Lauren C. Moore
Cleveland Municipal Court
The Justice Center
1200 Ontario Street, 14th Floor
Cleveland, OH 44113

Case#: 2006CRB010494

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[flvegan]

1. Absolutely will do.

I do like a bloodthirsy prosecutor...