December 29, 2012
From Examiner.com
A hunter’s assumption that a family’s dog was a coyote has left that dog dead from a gunshot wound in Jericho, Vt.
According to Saturday’s Burlington Press, Richard T. Blondin Jr. is facing a charge of animal cruelty for shooting a family’s German shepherd with a black powder rifle.
According to the Vermont State Police, the three-year-old dog belonged to Bruce Jacobs.
Tragically, the dog was on Jacob’s property at the time of the shooting; Blondin had fired the shot from Nashville Road, which is near the property.