Boy tosses puppy down embankment

By Eva Ruth Moravec - Express-News

Web Posted: 05/10/2009 1:36 CDT

Mary Ybarra hopes to adopt the puppy, whose only injury appeared to be a dislocated leg. EVA RUTH MORAVEC/emoravec@express-news.net

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A woman was drinking coffee in her backyard on Sunday morning when she saw a boy tape a puppy's mouth closed and then hurl it down a 20-foot embankment into a drainage ditch, she said.

Around 10 a.m., Mary Ybarra saw the 14- or 15-year-old boy lean over a small mixed-breed puppy in the 600 block of Rexford Drive.

“I thought he was walking the puppy and bent down to pet it, but he was putting tape on it,” Ybarra said. “Then I saw him throw the puppy up in the air. I was in shock.”

As the boy ran away from the ditch, Ybarra said she yelled, “I saw you; I know what you did.”

The puppy, a caramel-colored mixed breed about 6 months old, was tossed like a cartwheel off of the side of a drainage ditch, said San Antonio Police Officer James Phelan. The dog's back right leg looked like it had been dislocated, Phelan said, but the dog was otherwise uninjured.

Police are looking for the boy, who Phelan said lives nearby and will get caught. He faces a charge of cruelty to animals.

“He's going to face me if they find him,” Ybarra said. “How do they raise these kids? He tried to kill that puppy.”

Ybarra asked Animal Care Services, who took the puppy to treat its injuries, if she could adopt the dog after it had healed. ACS representatives said they will make the arrangements.

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Don1:30 PM

melo-alpo - Take the caps lock off. And *&%$#$ is not a word. And guess what? Most of the people that post here...like animals and people too.

meloapo12:55 PM

THIS IS FOR EVERYBODY CONCERNED WITH ALL THE OTHER NEWS & UPSET THAT ALL THESE COMMENTS FOR THIS PUPPY WERE POSTED. IF YOU ARE SO UPSET THAT LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE DISTURBED BY THIS KIDS ACTIONS & FEEL THAT WE SHOULD CARE ABOUT KIDS DROWNING AND CRASHING & HOMELESS GETTING BEAT UP THEN WHY DON'T YOU POST A COMMENT SEND SOME $$$ TO MADD HELP THAT HOMELESS MAN GET HIS LIFE TOGETHER. HOW DO YOU KNOW ALL THESE PEOPLE DIDN'T COMMENT ON THOSE STORIES,DONATE $$$$,PRAY FOR THE FAMILIES YOU DONT. TYPICAL CYNICS TALKING OUT OF THEIR @$$ THATS ALL YOU CAN DO THESE PEOPLE THAT HAD CONCERN FOR THE PUPPY WERE JUST EXPRESSING HOW THEY FELT & APPLAUDING MS. YBARRA FOR A JOB WELL DONE.

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