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| Rowdy, the cat, wandered away from his home in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Animal Control Department workers later found the 3-year-old male cat in a home on Sagamore Street. He was caught in a trap and riddled with 21 wounds from a pellet gun. Doctors removed 10 pellets during three hours of surgery, but left 11 that were embedded in his bones and rear limbs and cannot be removed. He will never see out of his right eye again. Rescuers named him "Nine Lives" because of his amazing ability to defeat death. Police have arrested a teenaged boy and taken him to Shuman Juvenile Detention Center. Police believe that the boy also shot a pigeon and a mallard duck with the same pellet gun used on Rowdy. "He said in the car he kills animals for fun, that I couldn't do anything to him and the law couldn't do anything to him," said Pittsburgh police officer Christine Luffey. Police said the suspect showed no remorse. He will be charged with two counts of animal cruelty, but he has yet to be charged with shooting the cat. No remorse. No remorse. That's scary. That means he'll do it again, and then again and again. Without blinking an eye. This boy is very troubled and needs to be off the streets where he isn't a danger to others. What he did to poor little Rowdy is just terrible. But that's not all. In April of this year, he was arrested yet *again*; this time it was for shooting his famous pellet gun at a moving vehicle, shattering the windshield of the truck. This time, this teen shot at a person. This is a classic example of an animal abuser escalating to people. When the abuser tires of or is no longer interested in taking pleasure in harming an animal, then he moves up the ladder to a human being. Police also have a warrant out for the juvenile's uncle, 28-year-old Michael Ingram. He is wanted for supplying the pellet gun to his nephew. For more information on Rowdy, please visit Rowdy's website at: http://rowdy9lives.9f.com To discuss Rowdy with others who are following this case, please visit Lori Ann Dennick's club at: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/guardianangelsfor9lives Please sign Rowdy's petition. Donations for Rowdy's medical care may be sent to: Animal Rescue League The Lucky Fund 6620 Hamilton Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206 You may send correspondences in regards to the teenage attacker to: Shuman Juvenile Detention Center 7150 Highland Drive Pittsburgh PA 15206 Stephen A. Zappala, Jr., District Attorney 436 Grant Street Room 303 Courthouse Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Phone: 412-350-4400 Fax: 412-392-0369 [email protected] SILVER RIBBON PROJECT The Silver Ribbon Project was initiated by Lori Dennick with the goal of raising public awareness against animal abuse, to seek justice for Rowdy in hopes of having his attacker punished to the full extent of the law, and to raise funds for Rowdy's ongoing medical care, as well as medical care of other abused animals. To make a donation to the Lucky Fund (that provides care for abused animals), write to: The Lucky Fund Animal Rescue League of Western Pennsylvania 6620 Hamilton Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Please indicate on your donation that you are giving in honor of Rowdy's care through the Silver Ribbon Project initiated by Lori Dennick. |
| Accused Cat-Shooter Back In Detention Center Teen Had Removed Monitoring Device Posted: 8:24 a.m. EDT August 16, 2001 Updated: 2:05 p.m. EDT August 16, 2001 PITTSBURGH -- A 16-year-old boy facing charges of cruelty to animals is back in a detention center after removing a home-monitoring device from his ankle and fleeing. The boy's mother has also been arrested and is being held on $5,000 bail for refusing to disclose his whereabouts. The boy, who allegedly shot a cat 21 times with a pellet gun, is being held at the Shuman Detention Center. He has been charged with three counts of animal cruelty for shooting a pigeon, a mallard duck and Rowdy the cat, Rowdy was the only survivor, but is now blind in one eye and deaf. The cat still has 11 pellets in his body after surgery. "Finally he's been caught," said Rowdy's owner, JoDeen Rezner, 47. "And finally I can let my dog go out to the bathroom in peace." The boy had been missing for at least a day. Rowdy disappeared April 14 and was found 10 days later, riddled with the pellets. |
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| The first scheduled court date for the juvenile arrested in Rowdy's shooting will be September 25, 2001. |
| "Little Rambo" is at it again, apparently. He is wanted by police again. This time, the 16-year-old boy could be involved with killing the same woman's dog. Police have not said that the boy is a suspect in the poisoning of Jodeen Rezner's pit bull, which died Wednesday, but they said that he ("Little Rambo") cut off his lectronic monitoring device sometime Friday night and hasn't been seen since. Police said that the boy and his uncle, Michael Ingram, are on the loose and are armed and dangerous. |
| Sources |
| Lori Ann Dennick The Pittsburgh Channel |