{"id":32481,"date":"2012-12-08T07:10:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T12:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=32481"},"modified":"2012-12-08T07:37:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T12:37:31","slug":"officers-probe-fatal-shooting-of-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/12\/08\/officers-probe-fatal-shooting-of-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers probe fatal shooting of dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff\/submitted information<\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is aiding an investigation into the shooting of a dog that occurred Friday in the county.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies are aiding the county humane agent in investigating the shooting, which occurred at a residence on Neiford Road.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials received a report from the dog&#8217;s owner stating that, when he came home from work at approximately 4:30 p.m. Friday, he found that someone had shot his 8-month-old German shepherd through the muzzle.<\/p>\n<p>The dog was taken to a veterinary clinic in Decatur, Ind., but later had to be euthanized because of the extent of injuries it had sustained.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 419.238.STOP or the Van Wert County Sheriff&#8217;s Department at 419.238.3866.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff\/submitted information The Van Wert County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is aiding an investigation into the shooting of a dog that occurred Friday in the county. Deputies are aiding the county humane agent in investigating the shooting, which occurred at a residence on Neiford Road. Law enforcement officials received a report from the dog&#8217;s owner stating that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 01:08:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}