Arizona man accused of killing his service dog, dumping it
Source: Associated Press
Updated 12:17 pm CST, Friday, March 1, 2019
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Police in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale say a man is accused of killing his 4-year-old golden retriever service dog at his home and dumping the dog's body in a garbage can where it was found by family members.
Police say in a statement that 29-year-old Jacob Bushkin was arrested Thursday night on suspicion of killing a service animal and animal cruelty.
The statement says Bushkin declined to speak with investigators and that detectives arrested him at the office of his lawyer, Ryan Tait.
. . .
According to police, a necropsy found that the dog was stabbed more than 100 times and a veterinarian said the dog's throat had been cut.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Man-accused-of-killing-his-dog-dumping-body-in-13655407.php
From #######'s Facebook page, images of his betrayed Golden Retriever, before he destroyed it:
https://www.facebook.com/jbushkin
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RKP5637
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Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)RKP5637
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PatSeg
(53,214 posts)BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)That are upset over this eat animals.
TexasBushwhacker
(21,204 posts)BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)And gorillas
cstanleytech
(28,471 posts)with all that slime down in the cesspit.
MLAA
(19,745 posts)animal cruelty or not and I choose not to. I didn’t always connect my meat eating with cruelty, but after I finally did, I chose not to.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)If so, what is the conclusion of this observation?
Javaman
(65,711 posts)and I loves me some good steak.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)If you haven't noticed, there's a bit of a difference between killing animals for food and killing them out of senseless cruelty. Predators in nature rarely if ever kill for pleasure alone.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)Humans only kill for pleasure.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Yes we are predators and always have been. Even chimpanzees sometimes eat meat.
TexasBushwhacker
(21,204 posts)Our brains developed in size and complexity because the amino acids in meat as well as the Omega 3s fatty acids in fish.
If you can be healthy on a vegan diet, congratulations. Not everyone can.
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BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Downtown Hound
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muriel_volestrangler
(106,212 posts)BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
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FrankBooth
(1,852 posts)Troll harder next time.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)FrankBooth
(1,852 posts)Yes, we see how concerned you are Professor. We mere mortals are basking in the glory of your moral and ethical superiority. One suggestion ... perhaps try a bio-degradable soap box for your next dose of brilliance.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)Response to BeneathTheMire (Reply #49)
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Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)5 different people to respond to.
Bernardo de La Paz
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,161 posts)Got to admit, it's been awhile since I have seen this happen.
Meanwhile, my heart aches for the poor dog.
sounds like the guy needs help, quickly.
SWBTATTReg
(26,257 posts)make a statement like this doesn't make it true. I just got done watching a documentary on PBS where humans over 200,000 years ago killed hippos and consumed them. As a matter of fact, there are all kinds of events where humans have killed for food (fishing for example). I also have seen documentaries where humans have been doing this forever (not for pleasure like you say), but for pure survival. As a matter of fact, in order to hunt more successfully, our brains had to expand in order to handle the complexities of hunting, the tools, etc. (another PBS show).
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)MLAA
(19,745 posts)I care about animal cruelty today.
SWBTATTReg
(26,257 posts)MLAA
(19,745 posts)Factory farming and as of about 10 years ago I eat no animals of any kind and as of 5 years ago no animal products either (eggs, milk, cheese). I realized that cows, pigs, chickens have the same feelings as dogs and cats. Too many adorable videos out there of cows, pigs and chickens being loving pets 🙂
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)FrankBooth
(1,852 posts)Page 112, section 27, clause 9 "How to Troll about incidents of Cruelty to Animals."
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Activity not a troll activity profile, unless some kind of sleeper.
I think probably a single issue member. Can't see other posts.
FrankBooth
(1,852 posts)It's much easier on the blood pressure, sort of like my vegetarian diet!
FrankBooth
(1,852 posts)And are a pox on democracy.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)Humans today don’t need to kill animals.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(106,212 posts)You have posted exactly the same post 5 times - replies #37, 38, 39, 41 and 42. You are not 'making a point', you are spamming us. It's rude, and unproductive. You also happen to be wrong (one of your posts was replying to me linking to a Nature article pointing out humans have be preying on large animals for over 2 million years), but we've gone beyond 'correct' or 'ignorant' now - you're just an annoying spammer.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)You’ve preyed on in the last week.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)You can’t just make stuff up like “proxy predator”.
It sounds real smart though!
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Go right ahead if it amuses you. Your loss, nobody's gain.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)Proxy Predator is not an actual term used, it’s something you just made up. Yes, I do enjoy laughing at you but that’s not what this is about.
So this is my whole thing: when someone who eats animals gets upset that a dog was brutally killed, but is not upset by the billions of other animals that are brutally killed every year, that is cognitive dissonance.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)No cognitive dissonance because the killings are totally different. But you are blind to the difference because you are able to see it only one way: in purist perfectionist all-or-nothing terms. Does not work like that.
I'm am really not inclined to make any more replies to you, but I expect you will try to provoke me.
Enough.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)Enough.
MarvinGardens
(781 posts)I can 100% guarantee that many animals were sacrificed in the development of any FDA approved drug: Mice, rats, rabbits, beagles, etc.
Mosby
(19,491 posts)Have any leather furniture? You or your SO carry a leather purse? Then you are by proxy a predator who's behavior facilitated the death of other animals.
Eta if you care about this so much start your own threads, instead of hijacking this one. It's bad form.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)As much as I possibly can including only buying soap that is cruelty free. I hope you’ll join me in doing so.
GemDigger
(4,380 posts)They have no outrage? Shame on them.
Your point is very close minded that everyone has the same ability as you to survive. Not realistic.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)GemDigger
(4,380 posts)Midnight Writer
(25,410 posts)Every organism MUST be able to consume others to survive. Even plants feed off the remains of others.
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FrankBooth
(1,852 posts)Page 112, section 27, clause 9 "How to Troll about incidents of Cruelty to Animals."
Polybius
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X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Our teeth, our gut structure, our gait.. all evolutionary evidence of omnivorous lifestyles.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)eom
Judi Lynn
(164,124 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)I keep pigeons and I fucking HATE cats. A hawk or raccoon gets in the pigeon co-op and kills a bird for food.
Cats get in there and kill and kill and kill. I have had a cat kill 13 homers in one night. I hate them and people purposely let them out.
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Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)And asshole cat owners let them out at night.
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Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)To allow the pigeons in. You must be one who thinks letting your cat roam is okay. Its my property. Why should I have to worry about someone's cat?
a la izquierda
(12,336 posts)Interesting thing to do. I love birds but had anxiety being cooped up with so many.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)They are very protective of their wildlife and understand how hard outdoor cats are on it.
a la izquierda
(12,336 posts)He is a confounding human being.
Mosby
(19,491 posts)And my neighborhood is filled with feral cats, they are constantly stalking my feeders. I hate them.
I was thinking about getting racing pigeons, sounds like a lot of fun. I had no idea they were so badass, they can fly circles around raptors.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)As I can work on hundreds of flushes with just a few birds. They come home and I use them again. Racing is just something to do for a little extra fun. Some guys are hardcore.
I still cannot believe the number of people who still think it's okay to let your damned cat out at night.
leftyladyfrommo
(20,005 posts)It was an awful thing to do to any living thing. Service dogs like his spend their whole lives dedicated to helping disabled humans. No animal deserves this kind of cruel and inhumane treatment. But most especially a trained, extremely expensive service dog. It was just s senseless act of extreme cruelty.
That dog should never have been placed with someone capable of violence like that.
Judi Lynn
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JaneQPublic
(7,117 posts)Most animals eat other animals.
It was still horrible to kill a beautiful, trusting service animal, and you still have no point.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)To kill a beautiful trusting cow, or a beautiful trusting pig, or a beautiful trusting chicken?
JaneQPublic
(7,117 posts)BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)Polybius
(21,901 posts)They're not getting murdered, they are slaughtered for their meat to satisfy us.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)MLAA
(19,745 posts)Remember seeing an adorable video here on DU of a cow playing fetch with a human
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(68,436 posts)Response to BeneathTheMire (Reply #3)
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Chakaconcarne
(2,787 posts)BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Good lord, try educating yourself beyond your nose. There are vast numbers of Humans who *hunt for food* all over the planet.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)*hunt for pleasure.
DRoseDARs
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Coventina
(29,731 posts)BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)I hope lower.
Coventina
(29,731 posts)do not eat animals.
So yes, I would say much less than 95%
Even so, as was pointed out by another poster, dogs are omnivores, but that does not excuse what was done to this dog.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)Everyone except for 3 people replying eat meat. It’s sad.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)And do so unapologetically. Dogs and cats are not food animals in this country. In other countries they are. So what?
The only thing worse that a self-righteous religious zealot, is a self-righteous vegan / animal-rights zealot, which is a just another form of religious fanaticism.
I don't want to preached at by ANY religious zealot.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Don’t know what that has to do with anything.
Polybius
(21,901 posts)There's a huge difference. We don't kill them ourselves, and they are killed because of our need for meat.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)Polybius
(21,901 posts)Enjoy your stay.
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Polybius
(21,901 posts)I don't recall being pro-gun.
DoctorJoJo
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Historic NY
(40,037 posts)was in the market for a labradoodle but since it was still a puppy I didn't think it was fair to stop and start training at my house while my family book a crusie and we would be away. the adult dog would have worked out
Lazy Daisy
(928 posts)Tne NRA and Republican party come out in defense of Mr Bushkin saying "If he'd have had a gun the poor dog wouldn't have had to suffer from all those knife wounds. It would have been a clean merciful killing of his service dog"
Judi Lynn
(164,124 posts)That doesn't sound like the humane characteristics one automatically expects from adult human beings, progressive human beings, intelligent human beings.
Pure, sadistic, murderous hatred has never been a democratic quality.
BeneathTheMire
(76 posts)100%
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Of the human condition. It is only a question of who, what, when, where and what they did. And do not try to tell me that frequent posts of "KARMA" are not part and parcel of many progressives mindset.
ArizonaLib
(1,303 posts)Not excusing it, just sympathetic for the treatment of the dog and that the man had feelings toward the dog or he would not have stabbed it more than a thousand times. Just killing it or wanting it dead would have limited at throat cutting or a single iteration of another method.
Let me explain for what it is worth:
In college I worked for a retired cop who most of this career had been assigned to a beat in a violent part of town. He found a pattern of when people died of multitudes of stabbings, excessive beatings and/or mutilating, it was done by someone who was emotionally close to the victim. Robberies, etc. when a perpetrator wants to eliminate a witness or someone who could potentially stop them from successfully committing the crime receive lethal acts only in iterations necessary to cause death. When excessive iterations were performed against the victim, there was a lot of emotion behind the incident.
He told me that after getting assigned to a more affluent area of town, which was coincidentally, Scottsdale, he arrived at a scene where someone had been bludgeoned beyond recognition, and several officers, detectives, etc. who were new at such scenes were there discussing it. My former boss walked into the house, looked at the remains and asked if there were any other family members living in the house. They said there was one individual. Right away my former boss told them that the other family member did it and walked out. After the investigation, the members of the team came back to my former boss and asked how he knew it was the other family member. He said only someone very emotionally involved would be interested in inflicting so much damage to the victim.
I love all living things, and wish no harm to animals or people. I feel for the dog, who likely merely sought to please his owner. I feel sad that the man has his problems and will likely exist locked up either in prison or secured in a mental institution, where he probably should have been in the first place, but I don't know anything else about him, so I can't say. I am also angry that the dog suffered and died like it did, and I am angry that the man didn't receive the proper help he needed.
I can say this: When Reaganomics cut funding for mental institutions and homelessness became part of our society for the first time since the 30's, our society has never been the same.
DirtEdonE
(1,220 posts)But they're all liars.
I find it quite ironic and funny, really, that reagan, the bastard who emptied mental hospital patients out onto the street to help cut taxes for millionaires wound up demented, dribbling on his bib, shitting his pants.
Fuck ronald reagan and anyone who has anything good to say about him. After nixon was vanquished, it was reagan who put this nation back on the wrong track again. Voodoo economics trickle-down bullshit we're still suffering under today.
Mental Health Systems Act of 1980
"The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) was United States legislation signed by President Jimmy Carter which provided grants to community mental health centers. During the following Ronald Reagan administration, the United States Congress repealed most of the law.[1] The MHSA was considered landmark legislation in mental health care policy."
Coinciding with a movement during the 1970s for rehabilitation of people with severe mental illnesses, the Mental Health Systems Act supported and financed community mental health support systems, which coordinated general health care, mental health care, and social support services.[2] The law followed the 1978 Report of the President's Commission on Mental Health, which made recommendations for improving mental health care in the United States. While some concerns existed about the methodology followed by the President's Committee, the report served as the foundation for the MHSA, which in turn was seen as landmark legislation in U.S. mental health policy.[3]
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, signed by President Ronald Reagan on August 13, 1981, repealed most of the MHSA. The Patients' Bill of Rights, section 501, was not repealed; per Congressional record, the Congress felt that state provisions were sufficient and section 501 served as a recommendation to states to review and refine existing policies.[4]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1980
RKP5637
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Judi Lynn
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mahina
(20,645 posts)Not your fault of course.
I’d wish him to hell but he already lives in it.
Bayard
(29,693 posts)Since he posted pics of it, I'm guessing he was attached to it at some point. Senseless.
Wondering what kind of disability.......
Judi Lynn
(164,124 posts)this guy has met people alone in empty houses to show them the property.
Not the best arrangement.
His faithful service dog couldn't trust him, sadly.
Coventina
(29,731 posts)I don't care what his disability might be, he doesn't deserve to live another pain free moment in his life.
To do that to a helpless creature shows a depravity that means he should NOT be allowed in the rest of society.
TexasBushwhacker
(21,204 posts)It says it was "his" service animal but I can't find anything about why he had it. It's not easy to get a service animal and they are very expensive.