Ontario woman seeks justice in brutal slaying of pet emu, worries for family’s safety

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emus in the middle of the pen with his neck bent at an unnatural angle and feathers and blood all around.She said security footage shows two people making their way into the pen at around 3:15 a.m. that morning.“I don’t know if their plan was to do it to all of them.

My husband had gotten up at about 3:45 to let the puppy out because he wanted to go out for a pee. We’re thinking he might have scared them away,” she said.“My family was sleeping not even 100 m from where this happened.

What would have stopped them to have gone in and done this to my family?”McCarrell, who also has a seven-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter, is also concerned that the suspects may have been watching the house, because the attack occurred the very first night that the weather was warm enough for the emus to stay out overnight.Haldimand OPP are investigating the incident as a case of animal cruelty. When police first reported the emu death, Global News had asked OPP if the emu was intentionally injured and why the case was being investigated as possible animal cruelty rather than a break and enter.At that time, Const.

Patti Cote said that “while I don’t want to speculate the reason for the individuals’ actions, they appeared on surveillance to enter directly into the animal pen upon arrival to the property.”McTavish was nearly three years old and had been purchased along with another male emu, Lennox, from a farm in Tavistock.“It actually kind of started out as a joke,” McCarrell recounted.“My husband had brought chickens home and then I became a bird person. And I kept teasing him that I wanted an ostrich.