Dead dog leads to questions
Blaise Hart-Schmidt
Issue date: 4/30/09 Section: News
The discovery of a dead Phi Sigma Kappa dog in an apartment rented by a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon has left the Phi Sigs asking questions.
During an activation ritual Thursday, April 16, Phi Sigs put Lucy, a female seven-month-old German shepherd in the backyard of the fraternity house, located at 1311 S. Florence, according to a press release from the Phi Sigs. Later that evening, Sig Ep Scott Farquhar called Phi Sig Patrick Pisani, the primary owner of the dog, to inform Pisani that Farquhar had found the dog and placed it in his apartment, known as the Loft, located adjacent to the Square. Pisani and Farquhar made arrangements to return the dog the next day.
According to the press release, Lucy could not be found the next morning, and it was discovered that Farquhar's roommate had left the apartment door unlocked. Because the Phi Sigs assumed Lucy had escaped the Loft, they searched for the dog and called the Humane Society, Animal Control and other local shelters.
Missy Decker, manager at the Adair County Humane Society, said she received phone calls daily asking about the dog.
"We actually had a couple of our volunteers saying, 'Have you seen this dog?'" Decker said. "One had a picture on her cell phone, so we were able to see what the picture looked like if she got loose or showed up from Animal Control."
Farquhar called Pisani around 6 a.m. April 24, a week after the dog was assumed missing, to tell him the dog was found in his place of residence after having suffocated with its head in an empty potato chip bag, according to the press release. Farquhar told Pisani he found the body under a pile of trash and boxes in the kitchen of the Loft while cleaning to eliminate a noticeably worsening odor.
Farquhar did not return to return Index phone calls.
Pisani and another Phi Sig went to the Loft to retrieve the dog's body two hours after the call. The body was on its side in the back corner of the kitchen with potato chip bag covering its head. The dog smelled like rotting flesh, had lost control of its bowels and there was a small spot of blood on the wall above its head, according to the Phi Sig press release
During an activation ritual Thursday, April 16, Phi Sigs put Lucy, a female seven-month-old German shepherd in the backyard of the fraternity house, located at 1311 S. Florence, according to a press release from the Phi Sigs. Later that evening, Sig Ep Scott Farquhar called Phi Sig Patrick Pisani, the primary owner of the dog, to inform Pisani that Farquhar had found the dog and placed it in his apartment, known as the Loft, located adjacent to the Square. Pisani and Farquhar made arrangements to return the dog the next day.
According to the press release, Lucy could not be found the next morning, and it was discovered that Farquhar's roommate had left the apartment door unlocked. Because the Phi Sigs assumed Lucy had escaped the Loft, they searched for the dog and called the Humane Society, Animal Control and other local shelters.
Missy Decker, manager at the Adair County Humane Society, said she received phone calls daily asking about the dog.
"We actually had a couple of our volunteers saying, 'Have you seen this dog?'" Decker said. "One had a picture on her cell phone, so we were able to see what the picture looked like if she got loose or showed up from Animal Control."
Farquhar called Pisani around 6 a.m. April 24, a week after the dog was assumed missing, to tell him the dog was found in his place of residence after having suffocated with its head in an empty potato chip bag, according to the press release. Farquhar told Pisani he found the body under a pile of trash and boxes in the kitchen of the Loft while cleaning to eliminate a noticeably worsening odor.
Farquhar did not return to return Index phone calls.
Pisani and another Phi Sig went to the Loft to retrieve the dog's body two hours after the call. The body was on its side in the back corner of the kitchen with potato chip bag covering its head. The dog smelled like rotting flesh, had lost control of its bowels and there was a small spot of blood on the wall above its head, according to the Phi Sig press release
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Pablo
posted 4/30/09 @ 10:36 AM CST
http://kirksvillesocialite.com/2009/04/29/puppies-on-the-quad-today/
Suzanne
posted 4/30/09 @ 12:44 PM CST
FYI-The dog might be intelligent but accidents happen. Children accidently suffocate by putting plastic bags over their heads. Parents are warned to keep plastic bags away from children, we don't consider our pets. (Continued…)
Jon Gillette
posted 4/30/09 @ 7:02 PM CST
Suzanne,
I would go further and say that dogs have limited intelligence at best. Sure I have two labs and love them to death, but that fact is accidents do happen and dogs are dogs. (Continued…)
Steve
posted 4/30/09 @ 7:03 PM CST
I don't want to make any accusations, but to me it seems too suspicious to be an accident. The problems with this as I see it are as follows:
1) Dogs do not bury themselves in a pile of trash. (Continued…)
James
posted 4/30/09 @ 7:49 PM CST
Wait, how the hell was a dog that size rotting in someone's kitchen for a week? It was under a pile of trash? People lived in and possible cooked in this kitchen?
It's pretty telling that someone shady is going on here. (Continued…)
WDK
posted 4/30/09 @ 8:06 PM CST
"The young man who took the dog in to try to take care of it"
And he sure did a bang up job, by golly!
Matt
posted 4/30/09 @ 11:30 PM CST
Losing a dog is tragic. However, the evidence points to foul play. No doubt in my mind. There is no way a dog could get a bag on its head so tight it couldn't get it off. (Continued…)
Kevin
posted 4/30/09 @ 11:40 PM CST
Even if the dog SOMEHOW managed to do this to itself (which is EXTREMELY unlikely, and even the vet said near impossible) there is no way that no one smelled the rotting flesh in that kitchen. (Continued…)
Michael Powers
posted 5/01/09 @ 8:35 AM CST
Wow. As an animal lover and lifelong dog owner, I couldn't be more appalled at this story. I find it very hard to believe that a dog could ever bury itself under a pile of garbage, considering every dog I have ever had would hate that. (Continued…)
Anonymous
posted 5/01/09 @ 1:00 PM CST
I also think it's sketchy that the sig eps wouldn't comment on the story. I've heard people talking about how the story is really bias but the reporter obviously tried to contact the Sig eps several times with no response. (Continued…)
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