A STARVING puppy resorted to eating rocks before he was starved to death by his “Lucifer-like” owner. The Doberman-pinscher mix called Lou was tortured to death at the age of two by his owner David Neanover, 36, in Ohio last year. The shocking abuse took place at Neanover’s Butler County home in April last year, […]
A STARVING puppy resorted to eating rocks before he was starved to death by his “Lucifer-like” owner.
The Doberman-pinscher mix called Lou was tortured to death at the age of two by his owner David Neanover, 36, in Ohio last year.
The shocking abuse took place at Neanover’s Butler County home in April last year, where the desperate pup was deprived of food and water.
Little Lou was found covered in open sores after concerned neighbors alerted the local sheriff about the abuse.
The puppy was removed from Neanover’s house by the Animal Friends Humane Society in Hamilton.
Subsequent X-rays showed Lou was forced to eat rocks in a bid to survive.
Volunteers tried to save the abused dog but unfortunately, Lou died from his injuries.
Neanover was subsequently arrested and jailed for 180 days on Thursday by an Ohio judge.
During his sentencing hearing, a letter was read out from someone he knew, saying the abuse of Lou was Satanic in its relentless cruelty.
“I am asking for the full extent of the law,” Neanover’s acquaintance wrote. “To let a sweet, innocent soul live in filth, no food or water, no love or kind treatment.
“[Neanover] even named him Lucifer when in actuality, this person should be called that.
“If I was a judge, these people who abuse animals would get to experience what they did to animals. Animals are just baby souls in different bodies.”
The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Neanover was sent to Butler County Jail and had pleaded no contest to animal cruelty.
He received another 180-day sentence which will run concurrently over a domestic abuse charge, the publication noted.
