Augusta dog mom pleads for answers after dog found dead

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – An Augusta canine mother is providing an enormous reward for anybody with solutions in regards to the loss of life of her canine.

“The connection I had along with her, I’ve by no means had with a human ever. It was love with out agendas,” stated Tracy Jenkins.

On Dec. 28, Jenkins was placing away her Christmas lights and realized her canine Lylah Grace had gone lacking.

“When she didn’t come instantly, I began searching for her. I walked the neighborhood. I screamed for her. I hollered,” she stated.

She says on Jan. 15, her different canine and Lylah’s greatest buddy, Good-looking, led her to Lylah at this deserted house on Thomas Lane simply toes away from her home.

She tells us what she discovered has been replaying in her thoughts because the day it occurred.

“He ran straight as much as her and simply began nudging her, you recognize, like telling her to rise up. And naturally, she wasn’t getting up. I misplaced it,” she stated.

She discovered Lylah on the bottom with a rope tied round her neck. Jenkins says she used a wagon to hold her house and bury her.

She says she known as Richmond County Sheriff’s Workplace and animal management a number of occasions. They informed her they will’t do something except she is aware of who did it.

After the sheriff’s workplace agreed to take her report over the telephone, she’s taking issues into her personal arms to search out who did this. She’s providing a $4,000 reward to anybody who has a tip that helps result in an arrest.

“Even when I can’t discover out who did this to Lylah, if it stops one pet, only one, from having to undergo what she went via, I’ll have discovered some justice,” stated Jenkins.

Her concern and everybody she tells the story to is that if somebody can do that to an animal, what would they do to an individual?

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