Giselle's Story

Giselle had spunk. She was a typical, healthy 5-month-old dog, energetic, and everything you would expect from a dog her age. One of my co-workers, a roommate of Giselle's owner, told me she was the "best and sweetest dog-ever".

Giselle's owner, who is also a co-worker of mine, had just adopted Giselle, a yellow lab, from a local animal shelter a couple months ago. Her friend and roommate had just got a bassett hound pup, and she wanted to get a dog herself. She talked about Giselle constantly, and loved this dog completely.

On September 25th, around noon, her roommate was planning to walk her bassett hound, Elliot. Giselle quickly escaped out of the open doorway, and took off.

Giselle's owner, her boyfriend, and roommate looked for Giselle as much as they could, to no avail. They thought she wouldn't be back. Talking to her roommate at work the same day, she suddenly recalled that Giselle had one of those chips that they sometimes put in animals in case of an incident such as this. It sounded promising that Giselle would be found.

Later that night, around 10:30 pm, Giselle's owner and her boyfriend would find her. They found her in a wash about a couple blocks away from their house, in a wash near Stone and Roger Road. (For those who don't know what a "wash" is--it's a dry river bed).

Giselle was unconscious. She was extremely hot. They rushed her to an animal hospital, where Giselle was treated.

This is where it gets really disturbing. When Giselle was found, she smelled of alcohol, one of her eyes were swollen shut, and she had an open sore near her neck. She was urinating blood. It appeared that whoever Giselle came in contact with that day, had beaten her badly. The injuries were not consistent with being hit by a car. The vet told Giselle's owner that she had suffered blunt force trauma and that her brain would not likely recover. She would have brain damage, but would live.

Five days later, Giselle died.

When you really think about it, Giselle's story really tells a lot about our society. The fine line between abusing animals and killing humans is too common to ignore. If you look into the history of serial killers, you will find a large majority had abused animals before moving on to killing people.

When will the person or persons that abused and tortured Giselle move on to humans?

Four Corners Creep Of The Week: Douglas Burns

Well, the results of last week's "Creep of the Week" are in and, as expected the results were overwhelmingly in favor of Scott Clark being a creep. Of course, there's always the one person who doesn't think he's a creep, but......ya know, opinions.....everbody's got one. However, I must add that this isn't the first time Scott Clark has had a legal entanglement involving our feathered friends. Seems he has a "fowl" past involving poultry. I would also like to send out a special "thanks" to Soobs for this link. So for now, Clark is free on bail and awaiting his court hearing later this month.


Now, keep your vomit bags handy for our next creep. Just a warning......

Meet Douglas Burns, 54 (sorry, no picture available at this time). He's awaiting a hearing later this month to determine whether he will have to register as a sex offender. He pled guilty back in July to cruelty to an animal with sexual motivation.


Apparently, he didn't see anything wrong with sexually assaulting a dog, taking pictures, and getting said pictures developed at Wal-Mart.


You can read the rest of his story in this article from the Arizona Republic.

Thanks for voting!!

Four Corners Creep Of The Week: Scott Clark

Thanks to everyone who took part in the poll about Robert Ashley! For the most part, as you can see from the screenshot of the results, most people think that Robert Ashley is "As Creepy As They Get". As for the one person who voted that Ashley is "Not Creepy"--I really hope that was a joke (although not a really funny one). Sorry--grown men who find 8-9 year old little girls "sexually attractive", ARE creepy.

Now, on to our next nominee....

Meet Scott Clark, age 26. His latest trip to St. Paul, Minnesota allegedly left him with a little craving for duck. He could have found a decent restaurant, but apparently he didn't want to go much further than his hotel lobby........

You can read all about Clark's despicable deeds in this article from the Rocky Mountain News.

Don't forget to come back and vote!!

Dear Lilliana: Children And Pets Are NOT Game Pieces!

I'm a little hostile this morning, but that's because I get sick of hearing about women who are willing to put their children (and in this case, a pet, too) in harm's way, all because a man wants to leave them.


A puppy is dead after Maricopa County sheriff's deputies said a woman arguing with her boyfriend tried to keep him from driving away by placing her children at either end of his moving