Andre (left) with his friend Bucky at his new home. There's a $3,000 reward for anyone who helps catch the creep who tortured Andre.

​There's good news and bad news regarding Andre, a dog whose eyes were gouged out by some savage before he was stuffed in a bag and thrown into an empty lot in west Phoenix last month.

The good news: Andre has found a loving home and is adjusting to life without eyeballs.

The bad news: the monster who hurt him is still on the loose.

Click here for all the details of Andre's abuse.

We corresponded over the weekend with Dr. Deborah Wilson, a physician with Circle L Ranch Animal Rescue and Sanctuary who helped save Andre. She says she spoke with the man who found Andre and he provided her with some additional details about how the dog was discovered.

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Dead puppies are no fun -- just ask 21-year-old Sadie Elizabeth Madrid, who was apparently so bored with her dead dogs that she left them to rot in her apartment for nearly two months.

Madrid's two dogs got sick in early December -- they were throwing up, losing weight, etc. Rather than take the pooches to a veterinarian, or an animal shelter, she left them in her Gilbert apartment in a locked cage with no food or water, which is where they ultimately died.

Then, rather than disposing of the dogs' dead bodies, Madrid left them to rot in the cage for nearly two months -- it wasn't until her roommate noticed a smell coming from her room that the dogs' carcases were discovered.

According to court records obtained by New Times, Madrid's roommate called police on Tuesday, after noticing the smell and finding the dogs' remains.

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Peoria Police Department

Michelle Busse is accused of animal cruelty.

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Peoria police are filing animal cruelty charges against a Peoria woman who allowed her pit bull to walk around on a bloody stump for about a year without treating its injuries.

Cops contacted Michelle Busse, 22, on January 7, after someone complained that she had not gotten medical treatment for her dog, Carmela, hit by a car about a year earlier. As a result of that untreated injury, the dog chewed off the lower half of her front right leg and was hobbling on exposed bone and inflected flesh.

Photos of the injuries below.

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Andre

​If you have any information about who's responsible for gouging out the eyes of a miniature pinscher and using him for BB-gun target practice a few weeks ago, call the cops -- in addition to helping to get a puppy torturer/potential future serial killer off the streets, the reward for information is now more than $3,000...and growing

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals already has offered $1,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest of the person responsible for torturing Andre. The Feathers Foundation and the Animal Guardian Network have each matched PETA's reward, and now Valley animal rights advocates are seeking donations to help make the reward even larger

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Dr. Deborah Wilson

Andre

​Yesterday, we told you about Andre, a miniature pinscher who had his eyes gouged out, likely by the same savage who used him as BB-gun target practice.

In reporting the story, we were stunned to learn that no law enforcement agency was investigating Andre's abuse. That, however, has changed -- we're told the Phoenix Police Department has taken the case.

The delay in the investigation isn't the fault of the police, though -- turns out, nobody called the cops (other than PETA. More on that below); everyone involved apparently just assumed that someone else had alerted authorities about the horrific abuse.

"I honestly thought that this kind of thing was automatically reported by Animal Care and Control to the police department," Dr. Deborah Wilson, a veterinarian with Circle L Ranch Animal Rescue and Sanctuary who helped save Andre, tells New Times.

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​If state Representative Steve Farley has his way, people who abuse animals in Arizona would be treated like sex offenders.

Farley recently introduced House Bill 2310, which would force anyone convicted of abusing an animal to register with the state and have their name put on a list similar to a sex offender registry.

Under Farley's bill, anyone convicted of the following crimes would be forced to register as an animal abuser: cruelty to animals, animal fighting, presence at an animal fight, cockfighting (for some reason, cocks don't fall under "animal fighting"), presence at a cockfight, cruel and inhumane confinement of a pig during pregnancy or a calf raised for veal, and horse tripping.

As written, the bill would require first time offenders to register for a year. A second offense would require the person to register for life.

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Andre

​There's a monster on the loose and he needs to be brought to justice.

The pooch to the right is Andre, a miniature pinscher who had his eyes gouged out of his head, likely by the same savage who used the little guy for BB-gun target practice.

We're told Andre was found in an empty lot near 67th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road in Phoenix about two weeks ago (the location of where the dog was found is unclear, though. More on that below). When he was found, he was tied in a plastic bag and left for dead.

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Russell Hofstad

​There may be more than one way to skin a cat, but 24-year-old Russell Hofstad only needed one -- with a butcher's knife...in a warehouse/concert venue...that he broke into.
 
Similarly, there could be several reasons to skin a cat. Hofstad's: he was hungry.

According to court records obtained by New Times, police were called to the District 8 Warehouse at 320 South 25th Street in Phoenix about 4:40 yesterday afternoon after the owner of the building found Hofstad had broken in and was still inside.

Hofstad apparently had been in the building for a while -- at least long enough to skin and gut a cat, write things on the walls, deploy every fire extinguisher in the building, and break all the fire alarm panels.

When police made contact with Hofstad, he was wearing what's described in the arrest report as a "paint mask." He was also wearing the dead cat's tail as a necklace.

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Thurman McGriff apparently caught a case of puppy love Saturday afternoon.

​Where to start...

Well, the good news is there's an outside chance that Thurman McGriff didn't actually get a blowjob from a puppy. However, according to police, at the very least, he whipped out his penis in public and simulated oral sex, using the pooch's mouth as the (ahem) pleasure center, in front of a 9-year-old boy.

According to court records obtained by New Times, police were called to the 1100 block of West Pima Street in Phoenix about 4:15 Saturday afternoon in response to a report that a man was exposing himself in public.

When police arrived, they found two witnesses -- an adult and a 9-year-old boy -- each of whom told police they saw the suspect (later identified as McGriff) exposing himself while holding a black and brown puppy.

At one point, the witnesses told police, McGriff "was using, or acting like he was using, his new puppy's mouth to pleasure himself."

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​A recovering heroin addict took his cat to the Arizona Humane Society for treatment earlier this month after the cat was injured while crawling through some razor wire. That turned out to be a mistake -- because Daniel Dockery was unable to immediately pay for the cat's treatment, the AHS killed it.

Now, after taking a beating in the media and on its Facebook page, the AHS says it will review its payment policies.

Dockery, who says he's been off of heroin for about a year -- much thanks to the 9-month-old cat -- brought the animal, "Scruffy," to an AHS facility on December 8. He couldn't pay for the cat's treatment -- and the AHS refused to allow his mother to pay for it using her credit card over the phone -- so the AHS told him they would only treat the animal if he signed ownership rights over to the organization, which he did.

Dockery says he went to the AHS to find out about his cat several times over the past three weeks, but was ignored or not given any information (the AHS says Dockery was given phone numbers to call but he never actually made the call).

On Tuesday, the AHS told Dockery the cat was dead -- and a media shit-storm followed.

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