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Article: Dead dog's owners face cruelty charges.(LOCAL NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2008
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Byline: Brian Lee
CHARLTON - Animal Control Officer Brent W. Sellew vomited from the smell from a dying dog with large open sores infested with maggots.
Behind an apartment building on the morning of Aug. 7 and chained to a rundown wooden doghouse with "thousands of flies" around it, authorities said, they found Nikkia.
The 12-year-old male husky, owned by Rebecca Cook and her son, Arthur Mantha, has since been euthanized.
Ms. Cook, 53, and her 19-year-old son, of 231 Stafford St., have been summoned to Dudley District Court for an Oct. 3 arraignment to each face a count of cruelty to an animal.
The dog was in extreme pain ...