More sick people

[Lee&Falks]

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=7745380

SOMERTON - October 25, 2010 (WPVI) -- A discovery on a woman's porch in Northeast Philadelphia sent her reeling Monday.

The grisly killing of a household pet has prompted a reward offer and a search for answers.

The Pennsylvania SPCA is now offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or people responsible for the killing of a dog found left on a woman's porch. Anyone with information is being asked to call the SPCA hotline @ 215-426-6300.

Authorities suspect whoever did this was trying to send a sadistic message - not to the dog's owner- but to a woman who lives in Northeast Philadelphia.

Sherri Verden could not believe what she was seeing when she looked out her back door in the 200 block of Byberry Road.

"I looked out my back door," Verden told Action News,"and there was a severed dog laying here on my deck. They had severed it from underneath the front paws, so it was, like, the top of the body... and it was completely gutted. A very gruesome sight."

Verden suspects the dog's killing is the work of a former neighbor who has been harassing her for years; throwing motor oil at her home and committing other acts of vandalism that she has reported to police.

"If he's able to sever a dog and put it on my property, I don't know how far he's going to go," Verden added.

The dog was still wearing its dog tag. Monday night, a woman and her daughter went to SPCA headquarters to positively identify the remains of their pet. The dog turned out to be Chico, a 3-year-old Siberian Husky who belonged to a family living a few miles away on Haldeman Avenue.

"This is almost like a 'Godfather' situation," said George Bengle of the Pennsylvania SPCA. "This would be my first experience with something like this. Where someone actually went to this extreme to do this to send a message to this individual."

The owner says their dog, Chico, ran away around 9 Sunday night. They had been trying desperately to locate him when they got the call from SPCA.

"I was shocked when Greg told me," said Chico's owner Gabriella Orvadia. "It's a sick, sick and sad individual who would do something like this. It's pathetic."

Authorities say they're looking at 2 possible suspects in connection with the case. However, the dog's owner says whoever is responsible; there is no punishment that would be severe enough.

"Put him in jail," Orvadia said. "Let him suffer the way you made my animal suffer."

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Poor dog, hope whoever did this suffers tremendously

[Kells xx]

thats shocking

that poor dog and the poor family who had to identify that it was their dog

its the hardest thing when a pet dies but to have it killed is the worst1

i hope they catch the scumbags and make them pay

[Saffmonster]

Oh wow, that's disgusting!!

[Austinville]

What a sad, sad world we live in.

Rest in peace Chico.

[Cassandra & Honey]

horrible.. i don't even want to think about it. it's so messed up.

The poor dog. No living creature deserves that.

[BingBlaze n Skyla]

R.I.P Chico! poor dog

cant belive some people i hope they catch the person responsible!

[lokis_mom]

Poor dog ....I know how that family feels, I hope who did this gets punished

[Smooginz]

sickening, who knows what the person who did this to chico will do next, first could be animals and then a human or several... I hope they catch them

[valkyries]

RIP Chico! some sick sado will pay if not in this life but the next xxxxxxxx

[HuskyCouture]

R.I.P Chico terrible people.

[renniwano]

RIP Chico..

Let's hope they find the person responsible.. and accidently leave him/her in the capable hands of Chicos owners..

[Tan J P]

R.I.P Chico xx

[Removed #2]

I agree with the owner, there's no punishment severe enough except this is one of those eye for an eye occasions:angry:

[lebe03]

R.I.P Chico

[Removed #1]

This is aweful...that poor dog...that poor family. I really hope he's arrested.