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PETA is requesting that Washington County's (Oklahoma) District Attorney prosecute Carlotta Gail Evans to the fullest extent possible for allegedly shooting a dog twice without provocation last month.

Evans a 55-year-old Animal Control officer, is charged in the March 19th shooting of Smokey, a one-year-old puppy. Conrtrary to previous reports, Smokey has not yet had to have his leg amputated although it is possible. Either way, Smokey is walking with a limp after the shooting.

"She used to stand across the road and call my dogs to the road,” said Jeremiah Shafer. “I caught her one day and asked what she was doing, and she said she was going to get them out in the road so she could shoot them." Evans does have a right to shoot particularly dangerous dogs. In Copan, there is a city ordinance that vicious dogs be put down before they are impounded. Police though say there is never any reason to shoot a dog. "I don't think there's any excuse for shooting a dog like this. The dog was really not harming anybody when she was there," said Washington County Sheriff’s Department Captain Gary Miller.

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