Did YOU dump a dog @ SAVE-A-PET yesterday?

This was his fate...Date: 2010-01-27, 9:54PM

IF THIS IS YOUR DOG....YOU DESERVE TO ROT IN HELL. FOR ANYONE OUT THERE WHO IS CONSIDERING DUMPING THEIR PET, THINK ABOUT THIS. THIS COULD BE YOUR FRIENDS FATE TOO. YOU MADE A COMMITMENT BY GETTING AN ANIMAL, NOW HONOR IT BY KEEPING AND CARING FOR THEM. Around 6:00 am yesterday morning our first staff member arrived at the shelter. She saw a black dog standing by our back door to the shelter. Next to him was a bag half full of dog food and two doggie toys. No telling how long he had been standing there waiting for his family to come back, but there he was. When the staff member pulled up he ran up to her car, looking for his family, but ran off when he found it was a stranger. He would run across Fairfield, a busy road, but kept coming back to the parking lot trying to find his family. We would try to catch him, but he would run off again. We set up a trap at about 11:30, but didnt see him again. Around 2:00pm, a staff member said she saw him about a mile down the road near 120 and Fairfield, a very busy intersection. She wasn't able to go after him. So, I went out looking for him to try and divert him back towards the shelter and the trap, if I couldn't catch him. I drove around and was driving down a road a half mile from the shelter, Townline. As I drove by this one home, I saw him in the field behind the home. He wasn't doing anything, just staning there alone. I started to back the car up to see if I could approach him from the other side of the home. As I was backing up down Townline, I heard a gunshot. I put the car in the drive and tried to see who was shooting at the house. I just knew they were shooting at the dog. I heard another shot and backed up again, looking like crazy to see who was shooting. As I was backing up I was able to look through the front window of the home. What I saw sickened me. I saw, on the other side of the home (inside the home), I watched a man raise his arm up with a rifle and take aim out his back window. I knew it was a rifle because I could see the scope. As he aimed, another gunshot rang out. I pulled into his driveway and jumped out screaming and went pounding on his front door. I screamed that he was shooting my dog and to stop. He put the gun down and came to the door. He opened the door and said he wasn't shooting at a dog. He said he was shooting something (I dont remember what exactly) in his back yard, some type of can thing on top of something else. He asked me if I wanted to come see. I told him no I was calling the police. As I dailed the police, I backed up my car and could see the dog now lying in the field. This dog had been running all day. There was only one reason he would by laying down. He had been shot. I ran across the field and was joined by two Round Lake Public Works guys in a truck. They took the phone and talked to the police for me. We reached the dog and he was lying, half twisted in a pool of blood. There was blood all around him. He had obviously suffered and walked around before he finally fell to the ground. The dog took a agonal breath, but it was still a breath. The guys helped load him and myself in there truck and drove us to my car. I took him to AETC, but when I l ifted him out of the car, I knew he was dead. He died in my car on the way. The bastard that shot him lives .6 miles from our shelter. I need this dog to get justice. I need people to know what can happen when you just leave an animal somewhere, and I need for everyonen to remember this beautiful boy who just wanted his family back. NOTE to whoever dumped this poor boy at the shelter, Save-A-Pet, in Grayslake, IL: He loyal and full of love for you, waited for you to come back to pick him up. All day long people tried to catch him and he would run off (across an extremely busy road) and kept coming back to the shelter waiting for you. If a car pulled up, he would go to it, looking for you. He would then run off when he saw it wasn't you. He waited and then he went looking for you. While looking for you, he was shot and killed. While waiting for you to come back and get him.
IF YOU RECOGNIZE THIS DOG OR KNOW WHO THE OWNERS ARE OR HAVE ANY INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE GRAYSLAKE POLICE DEPT. (847) 223-2341 OR SAVE-A-PET (847) 740-7788.
THANK YOU.