The newborn puppies are doing well and are in the care of Angels & Outlaws 2nd Chance Bully Ranch in Hico. (Parker County Sheriff's Office)
Update posted June 1 at 1 p.m. by Melissa Repko: A woman accused of shooting her dog to death and abandoning 10 newborn puppies was arrested early Sunday, the Parker County Sheriff’s Office said.
Tammy Green Douglas (Parker County Sheriff's Office)
Tammy Green Douglas, 44, of Springtown, was arrested Sunday on a charge of animal cruelty. She was booked into Parker County jail and released after posting a $3,000 bond.
Investigators found Aowa, a four-year-old heeler/shepherd mix, and Aowa’s 10 newborn puppies Wednesday morning in a cage located partially in a Springtown road. Aowa’s puppies were covered in blood and still nursing their mother’s dead body.
Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said investigators received numerous tips about the case that led to Douglas’ arrest.
Douglas told investigators that she grew agitated with Aowa, shot her with a .9 mm handgun near her home and abandoned Aowa’s body and her puppies on Raley Road, according to a news release.
“To a normal, caring human, this is an incomprehensible act,” Fowler said. “…Animal cruelty can never be justified.”
The puppies are unharmed and are in the care of Angels & Outlaws 2nd Chance Bully Ranch in Hico.
The 10 puppies that survived are being nursed by two dogs at Angels and Outlaws Second Chance Bully Ranch in Hico.(Facebook)
A school project board was glued to an egg crate used to line the dog's cage. (Parker County Sheriff's Department)
Original post on May 29: The Parker County Sheriff is asking for help to find whoever shot a dog to death and abandoned her nursing puppies on the roadside with her.
A school bus driver spotted an abandoned dog crate with a dog and several puppies in it in the 100 block of Raley Road in Springtown. When animal control officers arrived, they found a 3-year-old red shepherd mix with a bullet hole in her head. Officers also found the dog’s 10 puppies, which they believe were seven to nine days old.
The officers said that the dead dog was malnourished, and that some of the puppies were so young they barely had their eyes open.
It’s hard to imagine that someone would be so cruel as to execute any animal,” said Sheriff Larry Fowler, “but to kill a dog with nursing babies, and leave such a gory picture, is beyond human imagination.”
The puppies were taken to Angels and Outlaws Second Chance Bully Ranch in Hico, and will be available for adoption.
The sheriff’s office asks anyone with information to call investigators at 817-594-8845 or the Parker County Crime Stoppers Hotline at 817-599-5555.
Crime Stoppers will pay up to a $1,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest or indictment, and the caller can remain anonymous.
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