Reward offered after dog found beaten to death in Flin Flon

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There’s a $1,000 reward being offered after the manager of the SPCA in Flin Flon discovered a brutalized Chihuahua during a Monday night walk.

Carmen Ward said she was walking with her husband, Darren, and their three dogs when Darren made the discovery and urged her not to look. But averting her eyes wasn’t an option, Ward said, “because that’s what I do.”

The scene was grotesque, the worst of it whited out in an image Ward posted online asking, “DO YOU KNOW THIS DOG?”

“It was horrible,” she said. The little white Chihuahua weighed 10 pounds, maybe less, and she suspects it was beaten with a nearby log. The pup’s nails were long, a sign of neglect.

“Her eyes had come out of her head, and her innards had come out of her abdomen,” Ward said of the malnourished pooch. “It wasn’t a pretty sight.”

The scene looked fresh, she said, adding she thinks they found the dog an hour or two after it had been killed.

The couple took the pup home to bury her.

“We didn’t want to leave her there,” Ward said.

Now, she’s looking for justice.

In a post that was quickly viewed by more than 20,000 people within 24 hours, Ward calls on the public to find the person responsible for killing the animal. She’s even going back to the scene of the incident — an area near a sandpit in the bush near the Trout Lake mine — with the RCMP.

A $1,000 reward is being offered, she said, for anyone with information that helps lead to the capture and conviction of whoever is responsible. As she wrote in her initial online post, Ward tells people, “We would like to remind the public that this is animal cruelty… we ask you to do the right thing and call us with any information you may have about this dog.”

Anyone with information about the incident can call the Flin Flon RCMP or the SPCA where Ward works. Already, she said, the phones have been ringing off the hook. The number there is 204-687-8744. Any tips are being treated as confidential, Ward said.