Here's another one of those stories that defies explanation.
It's difficult to comprehend why it happened, but in Griffin, Ga., south of Atlanta, a police dog was stolen from his kennel this week, was shot and killed, then thrown in a ditch. A $1,000 reward has been offered to anyone who can lead police to the person who did it.
Griffin police officer Chad Moxon was at a firing range when his two German Shepherd Dogs, Jimi and Yeager, disappeared.
Moxon told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he searched Monday night and most of Tuesday, handing out some 300 flyers in the hope of finding his missing dogs.
Then, Wednesday morning, he got a call that someone might have found Jimi, a 3-year-old, in a ditch. A vet found buckshot in the dog's body.
"I just sat down in the ditch for the next 30 minutes," Moxon said. "I didn't have the energy to get him out."
The other dog, Yeager, was found in a neighbor's yard. "I almost didn't recognize him," Moxon said. "He was badly beaten." He's hopeful Yeager will recover in the next few days.
Let's hope police find the person who harmed the dogs. Given all they do - Jimi was trained in finding drugs and explosives and tracking people -- it's unbelievable someone would hurt a police dog.
