My daughter, Rachel, took in a young co worker who was being evicted from her apartment for non payment. Rachel told her she could stay with her for 1 month if she paid her $100. This was about 3 weeks ago. Rachel bought a new house and moved out 2 weeks ago. She kept telling the girl that she had to get her belongings out of the old house because it was sold and was no longer her house. Well, the girl didn't get her stuff out and two days ago she went to check on it (she had a computer, DVD, TV and some other stuff there). The computer was gone. The young girl was mad at my daughter because she felt Rachel and her bf should have moved her stuff. Go figure!
Anyway, because Abbey was so big and tended to make a mess of the house, Rachel would tie her on a leash with a cable so Abbey could roam the back yard while she was at work. Her boyfriend gets home not long after she goes to work normally. She came home from work last night and Abbey was gone. The cable and leash wasn't broken or anything so someone let the dog loose. She asked the girl staying with her what time she had left that morning and if she had noticed Abbey in the yard. First the girl said she left around 10:00 A.M. Rachel knew that was a lie because she left at 9:50 and the girl was still in bed sleeping. So Rachel started looking for Abbey and asking neighbors. A couple of them saw the girl in the back yard with Abbey at 11:00 and said Abbey was loose and running the back yard. Some other neighbors had seen Abbey running around the neighborhood at 11:15. The last sighting of her alive was at noon. A school girl said she thought she saw Abbey laying in the church yard at 2:00 PM and she thought she was dead. But Rachel thought maybe the dog was just sleeping in the grass. Rachel spent all night looking for her dog and making posters. So this morning she went to the animal shelter to see if they picked her up and to distribute more posters. That's where they told her they had picked Abbey up in the Church yard and Abbey had been hit by a car and died.
I feel so terrible for my daughter. She's so upset. And we're sure this girl wanted to somehow get back at Rachel and let the dog loose. Some others that work with them both, said right away, "She did it." She may not have intended to kill Abbey but she did.
