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October 27th, 2006, 11:32 AM
Rabbit murder spurs action
By NORM LEBUS
Oct 20, 2006, 01:19
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A violent Friday the 13th discovery by a young girl has Medicine Hat Police weighing some chilling theories in its current investigation.
Miles Albrecht's 12-year-old daughter Shyanna came home from school last Friday afternoon to find her pet rabbit Midnight mutilated, cut open from its breast bone to its back side, its stomach missing.
"My first thought was: What the Hell is going on? Is there a bloody cult running in this community?" Albrecht said. Cults co-existing along side the denizens of a right-wing, conservative city becoming a retirement capital of the prairies is one thing. But Albrecht posed a more unsettling scenario.
"If anyone knows the steps that serial killers go through, cruelty to animals and the killing of animals are usually one of the first steps taken."
Police removed the pet rabbit from the Albrecht residence in the city’s northeast end to get medical opinions from two local veterinarians. An investigator is currently on the file.
"As all of our members are aware, this is one of the indicators of people with some very serious psychological problems," Insp. Murray Morton of the Medicine Hat Police Service explained. "We have to deal with facts, and we won't know that until we locate the person and then try to determine what the root cause was."
Police investigated a similar incident last year, where a pet was killed and left for its owners to discover. While Morton described that incident as a stupid prank that went bad, police are taking this case very seriously, he added.
Albrecht, meanwhile, has joined forces with a Didsbury, AB woman to gather signatures for a petition lobbying the federal government for stiffer penalties for people convicted of cruelty to animals.
"Now it directly involves me - that's basically the bottom line," Albrecht said, explaining his reasons for circulating the petition.
Copies are available at Bratt Pak Hair Salon and Valley Pet Hospital. People are advised to attend in person to sign and not distract the businesses with phone inquiries. Signatures need to be gathered by Nov. 24 to reach Ottawa before the current session of parliament ends.
This is the story posted in Medicine Hat News about Shyanna's rabbit! And another reason for signing animal cruelty petition! Shyanna's father Miles will have her viewing this site to see notes of encouragement posted in another thread, so I thought I'd just start it here, if anyone has anything to say to Shyanna, please post it here for her, and I'll make sure she sees your notes of encouragement! Thank-You all!
By NORM LEBUS
Oct 20, 2006, 01:19
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A violent Friday the 13th discovery by a young girl has Medicine Hat Police weighing some chilling theories in its current investigation.
Miles Albrecht's 12-year-old daughter Shyanna came home from school last Friday afternoon to find her pet rabbit Midnight mutilated, cut open from its breast bone to its back side, its stomach missing.
"My first thought was: What the Hell is going on? Is there a bloody cult running in this community?" Albrecht said. Cults co-existing along side the denizens of a right-wing, conservative city becoming a retirement capital of the prairies is one thing. But Albrecht posed a more unsettling scenario.
"If anyone knows the steps that serial killers go through, cruelty to animals and the killing of animals are usually one of the first steps taken."
Police removed the pet rabbit from the Albrecht residence in the city’s northeast end to get medical opinions from two local veterinarians. An investigator is currently on the file.
"As all of our members are aware, this is one of the indicators of people with some very serious psychological problems," Insp. Murray Morton of the Medicine Hat Police Service explained. "We have to deal with facts, and we won't know that until we locate the person and then try to determine what the root cause was."
Police investigated a similar incident last year, where a pet was killed and left for its owners to discover. While Morton described that incident as a stupid prank that went bad, police are taking this case very seriously, he added.
Albrecht, meanwhile, has joined forces with a Didsbury, AB woman to gather signatures for a petition lobbying the federal government for stiffer penalties for people convicted of cruelty to animals.
"Now it directly involves me - that's basically the bottom line," Albrecht said, explaining his reasons for circulating the petition.
Copies are available at Bratt Pak Hair Salon and Valley Pet Hospital. People are advised to attend in person to sign and not distract the businesses with phone inquiries. Signatures need to be gathered by Nov. 24 to reach Ottawa before the current session of parliament ends.
This is the story posted in Medicine Hat News about Shyanna's rabbit! And another reason for signing animal cruelty petition! Shyanna's father Miles will have her viewing this site to see notes of encouragement posted in another thread, so I thought I'd just start it here, if anyone has anything to say to Shyanna, please post it here for her, and I'll make sure she sees your notes of encouragement! Thank-You all!