yvonnem
October 6th, 2004, 12:34 PM
from the Hamilton Spectator Oct 1, 2004
Haldimand County OPP Constable Paula Wright said two men tried to steal bullmastiff puppies from a home on River Road around 2 p.m. Wednesday. When the owner confronted the men, they beat her on the head with their hands, feet and an electric iron. She was taken to West Haldimand Hospital in Hagarsville with non-life threatening injuries. Police arrested two men when they showed up at Haldimand War Memorial Hospital in Dunnville with dog bites. The men, aged 35 and 37 have been charged with robbery with violence, mischief and assault with a weapon.
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This lady had advertised mastiff puppies for sale in the Hamilton paper. I went out to her house the week before to see 5 males and 1 female -- cute little things, mom was english mastiff with some dogue de bordeaux in her. I wanted an adult mastiff and didn't want to encourage BYB, but the boyfriend fell in love with one of the pups. I told him to think about it overnight and make a decision. He decided that he wanted one. So by October 1, all of the puppies had been sold. Oct 1 was the day she was taking them to the vet for their first shots and 2nd worming and she was going to keep them for another week until they were 8 weeks old and then we could pick up our baby.
What these people did was to get a woman to call about the puppies. When she was told that they were all spoken for, she begged to just come out and see them. The owner of the pups said okay. She moved mother mastiff out of the fenced yard to the barn because she still gets a little agitated when strangers handle the pups. The woman showed up (no sign of the guys) and the next thing the owner knows the woman is tossing the puppies over the fence to the guys. She tries to stop her and is not successful. She goes into the house to call the cops. One of the guys follows her in, rips the phone off the wall and starts beating her with it. The other guy comes in and grabs an electric curling iron and starts beating her with it. Then they escape with 2 of the 6 puppies -- but not before mother mastiff gets out of the barn and bites both guys.
Then they dump the puppies at the side of the road in Dunnville before going to the hospital to have the bites looked after. Fortunately, someone found the pups before they could get run over and they were returned to their home.
The owner of the puppies calls on Friday -- can we pick the pup up a week early? My boyfriend goes out to find the owner black and blue, huge stitches up the back of her head where they beat her with the phone, she can barely stand. So we get the puppy a little early. He was not one of the ones grabbed by the puppy nappers but she is worried that he may be traumatized by the whole screaming and yelling and cops and ambulance because mother mastiff has been in an absolutely foul mood ever since it happened.
So now we have a mastiff puppy:
Haldimand County OPP Constable Paula Wright said two men tried to steal bullmastiff puppies from a home on River Road around 2 p.m. Wednesday. When the owner confronted the men, they beat her on the head with their hands, feet and an electric iron. She was taken to West Haldimand Hospital in Hagarsville with non-life threatening injuries. Police arrested two men when they showed up at Haldimand War Memorial Hospital in Dunnville with dog bites. The men, aged 35 and 37 have been charged with robbery with violence, mischief and assault with a weapon.
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This lady had advertised mastiff puppies for sale in the Hamilton paper. I went out to her house the week before to see 5 males and 1 female -- cute little things, mom was english mastiff with some dogue de bordeaux in her. I wanted an adult mastiff and didn't want to encourage BYB, but the boyfriend fell in love with one of the pups. I told him to think about it overnight and make a decision. He decided that he wanted one. So by October 1, all of the puppies had been sold. Oct 1 was the day she was taking them to the vet for their first shots and 2nd worming and she was going to keep them for another week until they were 8 weeks old and then we could pick up our baby.
What these people did was to get a woman to call about the puppies. When she was told that they were all spoken for, she begged to just come out and see them. The owner of the pups said okay. She moved mother mastiff out of the fenced yard to the barn because she still gets a little agitated when strangers handle the pups. The woman showed up (no sign of the guys) and the next thing the owner knows the woman is tossing the puppies over the fence to the guys. She tries to stop her and is not successful. She goes into the house to call the cops. One of the guys follows her in, rips the phone off the wall and starts beating her with it. The other guy comes in and grabs an electric curling iron and starts beating her with it. Then they escape with 2 of the 6 puppies -- but not before mother mastiff gets out of the barn and bites both guys.
Then they dump the puppies at the side of the road in Dunnville before going to the hospital to have the bites looked after. Fortunately, someone found the pups before they could get run over and they were returned to their home.
The owner of the puppies calls on Friday -- can we pick the pup up a week early? My boyfriend goes out to find the owner black and blue, huge stitches up the back of her head where they beat her with the phone, she can barely stand. So we get the puppy a little early. He was not one of the ones grabbed by the puppy nappers but she is worried that he may be traumatized by the whole screaming and yelling and cops and ambulance because mother mastiff has been in an absolutely foul mood ever since it happened.
So now we have a mastiff puppy: