Little girl's service dog found dead - Page 1

Nine-year-old Alle Nolan is lost without her service dog, Toby, and the autistic child’s mother says she can’t understand why someone stole their dog, only to kill it and dump it in their front yard days later. 

“Communication is a big frustration for her,” says her mother, Kelley Nolan. She worries about her daughter shutting down in the absence of her companion. Nolan says that despite the fact that she can’t vocalize it, Alle is aware of his absence.

“She plays with his toys, and she has toys he played with her and she looks for him. She goes from room to room checking for him periodically,” Nolan said. “He slept with her at night. If she’d get up, he’d let us know. It’s things that we spent three years teaching him to look out for her. We trained him to be her best friend and second pair of eyes.”

Last Tuesday, neighborhood children witnessed a caucasian woman with blonde hair putting Toby in a Dodge Charger before speeding away from the family’s Moncks Corner, S.C. home.

The family spent days searching for their lost dog. That search came to a tragic end on Sunday when Kelley Nolan found Toby dead in her front yard. “He was half in the ditch, half in the yard,” she said, choking back tears. “There was still blood coming from his mouth. They had done blunt force trauma to his head, like a baseball bat.”

She sobs as she struggles to grasp the motive of Toby’s killer. “I just cannot understand how someone could be so cruel. Not only because he was our family member but because he was a special dog,” she said.

http://www.lifewithdogs.tv/2011/12/family-mourns-murdered-service-dog-reward-offered/


 

How unbelievably sad.....

Sick sick sick, I just don't understand it.

Poor family :(

As a mother of a child with Autism, my heart goes out to this family & what that poor little girl is going through! How tragic & horrific that someone would do such a thing.

I just can't get the vision out of my  head of that little girl playing with the dog toys and going room to room looking for him.

It just breaks my heart.

That is just to sad.
How can people be so cruel.. Hope they catch the sick ba@&$#d.

It  might have something to do with the fact that the dog looks like a Pit Bull.
Some people really hate Pit Bulls and may not have even realized it was a little girls service dog?
Of course sevice dog or not, most pit bulls are great dogs with undeserved bad reputations.
I hope someone got a license plate number of the sick b*tch that killed her.


Thomas Barriano

Some folks are just in need of a good killin'..........Cowboy logic

To  grab the dog, keep it for several days and then to drop it in the front yard?  I pray with all my heart that that Little girl did not see her pet/companion like that.

Pure evil.