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by Pioneer Wife on 09 March 2015 - 00:03
by hexe on 09 March 2015 - 00:03
People are so vile.
Run free, big red dog. You're in a safe place now.
by Kalibeck on 09 March 2015 - 04:03
Awful....jh
by Jyl on 09 March 2015 - 05:03
That is just awful! I hope they find the person that did this.
R.I.P Jagger..
by Dobermannman on 09 March 2015 - 14:03
A tragedy if true but let's wait for the toxicology report before jumping to conclusions
by Blitzen on 09 March 2015 - 15:03
There is "no doubt" a prize-winning Irish setter was "maliciously poisoned" at Crufts, one of his owners has said.
Thendara Satisfaction, known as Jagger, died after leaving the Birmingham show. His owners say he ate poisoned beef.
Co-owner Jeremy Bott said he did not think the dog was targeted, but the culprit may been acting on "a grudge against dogs or the Crufts show".
Fellow owner Aleksandra Lauwers said they had lost "our love, family member and best friend to our son".
Mr Bott's wife, Dee Milligan-Bott, told BBC Radio 5 live: "I don't believe in my heart of hearts that this was another competitor or anyone involved in the dog world.
"I can only imagine that it was a random act that somebody premeditated and wanted to cause total distress at the best dog show in the world.
"It's not unknown for people to do things like this.
"He was a typical Irish setter, totally trustworthy and so loved. We are devastated," she said.
Jagger had just won second place in his category
"The Crufts committee and all championship show dog committees will have to look at security."
Jagger came second in his class at the show at Birmingham's NEC on Thursday.
He died after returning to Belgium with Ms Lauwers.
Leicester-based breeder Mrs Milligan-Bott claimed the dog must have been given the meat "while on his bench at Crufts", calling it "a heinous crime."
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Jeremy Bott, co-owner of Jagger says the dog ate poisoned meat
Speaking to BBC Radio 4, her husband Jeremy said: "When the vet opened up his stomach, she found cubes of meat - some sort of beef-like steak - and they had been sewn up with poison inside.
"She thinks there were possibly two or three types of poison.
"I think she identified one as a slug killer. I would guess that the other would turn out to be a rat poison or some industrial type of poison."
He said he did not believe the attack was targeted but he did not think the culprit would be caught.
He said: "They will hopefully try with the CCTV they have in the halls at Crufts but I don't think they will be able to find anybody."
Jagger's owner, Jeremy Bott, said the NEC would check its CCTV but he did not believe the culprit would be caught
The couple's daughter, Amy Nettleton, said: "The accessibility of shows such as Crufts... is such that the general public can wander in and out of the dogs' benches and approach any dog, so to keep an eye on everybody who came up and spoke to the dogs is very difficult."
Ms Nettleton described her family as "just devastated and beside themselves".
"The sensationalisation that the media has portrayed today - that Jagger was worth £50,000 - is beyond ridiculous," she said.
"Jagger, to his family, was priceless and he was also used, not only as a family pet but as pet therapy."
She said his owners took him into elderly care homes.
"He would sit there and give the residents some delight in him just being around."
by Pioneer Wife on 09 March 2015 - 17:03
Yes, being fed sewn up beef cubes with three types of poison inside them was deliberate...
by Mindhunt on 09 March 2015 - 18:03
Sad.....
Hope they catch the culprit(s).
by Pioneer Wife on 09 March 2015 - 19:03
Up to 5 dogs may have been poisoned:
and PETA rears it's ugly head...(and are top suspects IMHO)
Meanwhile, animal rights charity PETA said Jagger's death showed how dogs 'always pay the price for breeders' sick pursuit of the perfect dog'.
A spokesman said: 'It's common in the cut-throat world of dog breeding for dogs to be killed or abandoned if they don't match the Kennel Club's arbitrary breed standards... it's always the dogs who pay the price for breeders' sick pursuit of the "perfect dog".'
by Hundmutter on 09 March 2015 - 21:03
What PETA says bears no relation to Jagger's death, I doubt they can prove
the assertion that it is 'common' for dogs to be killed or abandoned if they don't
match up to breed Standards. More likely if someone becomes obsessed with
some particular fault (whether they would have Shown the dog or not) they will
back it to the breeder or find another home for it. Evidence from Rescues shows
many other reasons - yes, even sillier ones ! - for dogs being 'abandoned'.
This event was hardly the owner killing their own dog because it didn't embody its
Breed Standard, now was it ?
And the good old Daily Mail is upping the ante again, I see, by exagerating: don't
know where the figure of 5 dogs comes from, there are TWO others that are
apparently sick post-Crufts, neither of which are dead, neither of which have
autopsy results of deliberately administered substances.
I believe Thomas is right to post ^^^ that we should wait and see what the toxicology
report exposes at the end of the week. That bait might have been introduced to the
dog before he even got inside the Show,
Really hope this wasn't either a rival exhibitor, or anyone supposedly committed to
animal rights and welfare ! Maybe some individual 'nutcase' with some grudge
against this dog/its owner, or dogs in general ?
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