I'm just saying we don't know all the facts, just the opinion of the person arrested. I'm slow to judge until I know the whole story, just weird that way I guess. I don't know for sure that the dog was lying there for days suffering, other than the lady arrested said a neighbor told her that.
Point in case, when our lab had cancer, she was responding suprisingly well to the chemo, or so we thought, and then one day she couldn't walk. The vet thought, or Hoped like heck , that it could have been tick paralysis. We used a towel sling to help her get around and kept her cleaned up, she was a mess, but she seemed to be getting the function of her legs back, we were very hopeful. But Alas, one day her back legs were just totally immobile and she was obviously scared and hurting, and we determined that the cancer was just too agressive even though she was getting the strongest type of chemo, it spread faster than the chemo killed it and affected her mobility.
Anyways.. during this week, we had a suffering / lame dog on our back deck, if someone didn't know the story they would think we were abusing her and were cruel. When the vet came to put her to sleep we were bawling even the vet and his brother were crying, she was just the best danged dog ever. If someone would have stolen her during this time, I would have been very upset.
