NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The North Little Rock Animal Shelter is investigating after a Great Pyrenees-German Shepherd mix named “Bear” was admitted to the Eubanks Veterinary Clinic last month with what the owner believes were intentional burns on its back and onto its hind legs.
“I cannot fathom why someone would do that to a helpless animal,” Tami Smith, Bear’s owner, said. “His back looks like a piece of raw hamburger meat, I cried.”
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Smith said she found her 8-year-old dog in distress, lying in her backyard on the morning of April 23, panting and out of breath.
“Somebody had to have poured a hot substance on him, and it had to have been at a high temperature to penetrate all of that fur,” Smith said. “My hands got in this sticky substance, I didn’t know what it was, but it stunk to high heavens.”…