Pasadena dog owner relieved as police charge youth with killing animal

Alex Kennedy · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 14, 2025 4:21 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

A Pasadena pistillate says she's inactive traumatized by the decease of her canine successful precocious October, but is thankful charges person present been laid successful narration to his death.

Terri Clancey's two-year-old shih-poo, Jaycee, went missing connected Oct. 24. The canine was aboriginal recovered dead, according to police.

On Friday, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary laid 3 charges against a younker successful transportation with the dog's death — theft nether $5,000, wilfully sidesplitting a canine without a lawful excuse and wilfully causing an carnal unnecessary symptom oregon suffering.

"I was hoping and praying that we would get to that point, and we did," Clancey told CBC News successful an interrogation connected Friday.

"I consciousness a consciousness of relief. There's a small spot of closure. I'm really, truly sad. Still really, truly bittersweet astir everything, and I fishy I volition beryllium for a precise agelong time. I'm traumatized."

Clancey said Jaycee was an affectionate canine who loved radical and wanted to beryllium with his owners wherever helium went.

The younker is scheduled to look successful provincial tribunal astatine a aboriginal date. Although it volition beryllium challenging, Clancey said she plans to attend.

"My extremity erstwhile I spell to the tribunal appearances is to item however superior this is," she said.

"If you're susceptible of sidesplitting an animal, you know, things tin escalate."

Clancey shared posts online astir Jaycee starring up to the charges being laid.

RNC Const. James Cadigan, the force's media relations officer, said that nationalist engagement is ever adjuvant erstwhile it comes to a constabulary investigation.

"We surely trust connected collaborating with our assemblage erstwhile we're gathering information," Cadigan said.

"At this signifier successful this investigation, we did person grounds to laic a complaint successful transportation with the decease of that animal."

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