Article: Dog's death could lead to charges Farmer tells officials he meant to scare animal, not hit it with shot

Charges were being sought Monday against an Addison farmer who allegedly shot a neighbor's trespassing dog, threw the carcass in the back of his pickup truck and dumped it in a frozen creek bed on his property.

The dog, Molly, was a 7-year-old black Labrador retriever.

The official investigation began late Friday. The owner of the dog, Dean Blankenburg, 46, called the Washington County Sheriff's Department to report that another neighbor had witnessed the dog being shot.

"I heard the shot," Pamela Olivio, 43, told a reporter Monday.

Olivio quickly looked out a back window. She saw a dog moving on the ground and heard it whining. The dog was just on the other side of the property line, ...

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