Monday, June 25, 2007

Animal Cruelty in Byron, GA

From last Thursday comes this horrible story about a Georgia man who shot his neighbor's 8-month old puppy fourteen times.

With three dogs and five cats, Toni Smisson is an animal lover and not long ago,
she had more cats, but they started disappearing.

It looks like Smisson's neighbor, Jason Allmon, has been terrorizing her pets for a while. Fortunately for Smisson, Allmon's shooting of her dog was caught on videotape.

Mr. Allmon, however, has a different point of view:

Michael Chidester, a lawyer representing Allmon said, "Mr. Allmon shot a nuisance animal on his own property. It wouldn't be a crime if he'd shot a raccoon or a possum. We don't see why this animal is anything but a nuisance animal. In our view, Ms. Smisson is just as guilty of animal cruelty as Mr. Allmon is."

Hopefully, a judge will see things a little more clearly.

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