Authorities arrested a Metairie man accused of shooting a dog he caught copulating with his purebred pet, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.
Randall Schexnayder, 51, was booked Friday (May 30) with aggravated cruelty to animals, said Col. John Fortunato, spokesman for the department. The wounded dog, a Labrador-mix named Raider, is expected to recover from two gunshot wounds to the muzzle and neck.
Raider's unidentified owner contacted the Sheriff's Office on Wednesday after the dog escaped his Henican Place home and returned a short time later without his collar and bleeding, according to a Sheriff's Office incident report.
"He thought the dog had been hit by a vehicle," Fortunato said.
But a veterinarian determined Raider had been shot. One bullet entered his muzzle and exited near his mouth. The other entered on the left side of his neck but did not exit, the incident report said.
The man told deputies the culprit might have been another neighbor who filed a report when Raider similarly escaped the house on March 10, the report said. The neighbor told authorities the dog had attacked him.
But the man also recalled another conversation with different neighbor. That neighbor, later identified as Schexnayder, caught Raider mounting his purebred dog, according to Fortunato.
"He threatened, 'If I catch him again, we're going to have a problem,'" said Fortunato, who did not know the breed of Schexnayder's dog.
Deputies went to Schexnayder's residence, 3916 Cleveland Place in Metairie, on the Thursday night.
Schexnayder admitted shooting the dog, Fortunato said. He told the deputies he ran off the dog the first time he caught it in his yard attempting to mount his pet. When the dog returned, he admitted shooting it twice with a .22-caliber pistol, an arrest report said.
Schexnayder turned over the gun as well as Raider's collar, according to the report. He was booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna and released on Friday on a $10,000 bond.
When reached by telephone on Tuesday (June 3), Schexnayder declined to comment on the advice of his attorney.
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