A post on a public Facebook page called “Lubbock Helping Lubbock” went viral and sparked panic for dog owners around 16th Street and Iola. The post on the page said the woman had left her dogs home for an hour and came home to her Maltese skinned alive.
The owner said she called Lubbock Police and Lubbock Animal Services to respond to the situation but then later found out a husky she was fostering at the time ended up killing the Maltese.
“Baby was eaten by a rescue husky that I got about two months ago. She had been a starved dog and she turned. This really opened my eyes about rescuing certain dogs,” Paula Madden Martin, the owner said.
Several neighbors in the area said they were shaken up by the post and the pictures of the mauled dog.
“It could have been a number of things but from what I’ve seen in the pictures, I mean it was a clean kill there wasn’t a bunch of blood splattered around the fur it was just like it was opened up like somebody did something to it,” Christian Balo, a neighbor said.
Martin said she did end up having to put the husky to sleep.
“I lost two beautiful girls in less than 24 hours. I had to make a heartbreaking decision about my husky. I just didn’t trust someone else losing a child or dog and not knowing her background. I consider her a cannibal dog now. Shame on people who get dogs and treat them bad, I think the previous owners made her this way. It’s so heartbreaking,” Martin said.