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Two dogs shot, run over by train east of Edmonton
By Ben Gelinas, edmontonjournal.comMay 6, 2009 12:02 PM
EDMONTON — A Strathcona County family says someone shot their two dogs and tossed the animals’ bodies on nearby railroad tracks, where they were run over by a train Tuesday morning.
Dead are a six-year-old Belgian shepherd named Reo and a four-year-old basset hound named Annie.
Jim Thompson says the dogs were inseparable, like the animals in the movie Homeward Bound.
His wife Moni was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2006, and had to have her stomach removed. She developed breast cancer a year later, and their dogs were constantly at her side throughout the ordeal. Reo was especially loyal.
“This dog took it upon himself to be her constant companion … She called him her ‘black angel,’ ” Thompson said. “My wife doesn’t know how she’s going to carry on without these guys.”
The dogs were out playing on the family’s 40 acres Tuesday morning while Jim was at work and Moni was in Sherwood Park shopping. A friend was cleaning their home when she heard two gunshots and a yelp around 11 a.m.
“The gunshots were very close because our horses stampeded,” Thompson said. “She called the dogs but they didn’t return.”
In the early afternoon, the family got a call from CN Police, who found the dogs’ bodies on an isolated section of track near their acreage. The dogs’ collars had their names and their owner’s phone number embroidered on them.
Annie had been decapitated by a train. Reo’s body was found between the tracks. CN moved the bodies to the ditch.
Between the time the bodies were found by CN and the time Jim and a neighbour were escorted to the scene, someone had placed Reo’s body back on the tracks, cutting him in two when another train went by, Thompson said.
A vet confirmed that the dogs were shot, he said. Reo still had a bullet lodged in his neck, close to his head. Annie had bullet fragments in her chest.
The family has gone to the RCMP and plans to call the SPCA.
If you know anything please tell the authorities. Or better yet....tell me!
Two dogs shot, run over by train east of Edmonton
By Ben Gelinas, edmontonjournal.comMay 6, 2009 12:02 PM
EDMONTON — A Strathcona County family says someone shot their two dogs and tossed the animals’ bodies on nearby railroad tracks, where they were run over by a train Tuesday morning.
Dead are a six-year-old Belgian shepherd named Reo and a four-year-old basset hound named Annie.
Jim Thompson says the dogs were inseparable, like the animals in the movie Homeward Bound.
His wife Moni was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2006, and had to have her stomach removed. She developed breast cancer a year later, and their dogs were constantly at her side throughout the ordeal. Reo was especially loyal.
“This dog took it upon himself to be her constant companion … She called him her ‘black angel,’ ” Thompson said. “My wife doesn’t know how she’s going to carry on without these guys.”
The dogs were out playing on the family’s 40 acres Tuesday morning while Jim was at work and Moni was in Sherwood Park shopping. A friend was cleaning their home when she heard two gunshots and a yelp around 11 a.m.
“The gunshots were very close because our horses stampeded,” Thompson said. “She called the dogs but they didn’t return.”
In the early afternoon, the family got a call from CN Police, who found the dogs’ bodies on an isolated section of track near their acreage. The dogs’ collars had their names and their owner’s phone number embroidered on them.
Annie had been decapitated by a train. Reo’s body was found between the tracks. CN moved the bodies to the ditch.
Between the time the bodies were found by CN and the time Jim and a neighbour were escorted to the scene, someone had placed Reo’s body back on the tracks, cutting him in two when another train went by, Thompson said.
A vet confirmed that the dogs were shot, he said. Reo still had a bullet lodged in his neck, close to his head. Annie had bullet fragments in her chest.
The family has gone to the RCMP and plans to call the SPCA.
