A friend brought this story to my attention, and, as we not infrequently report on this site about humans being mauled by canines, I felt it was a case of turnabout being fair play and such to cover it here. Also, if I am being honest, it’s juts too damn bizarre NOT to cover it. According to the linked-to report, a 43-year-old Moulton, Alabama woman named Anita Dale Parker had been faking a pregnancy to win back a wayward boyfriend. When he started to notice that she wasn’t showing, she decided to fake a miscarriage. How’d she sagely decide to accomplish this? She killed and mutilated her pet Chihuahua and then used “the blood and other parts of the animal” to stage a miscarriage. Now you might be thinking that any competent doctor or nurse would easily see through such a sham, and lo and behold they did. Then the boyfriend found the dog’s remains in a garbage can at home and called the cops.
It’s safe to say at this point that Ms. Parker ain’t particularly gifted in the brains department. She should be jailed for ineptitude and ostentatious stupidity if nothing else, but the real concern remains, despite her lack of intelligence. As the local sheriff succinctly put it: “If someone will do this to an animal, what’s to stop them from doing it to a human?”