Crown wants Vancouver dog killer to spend up to six months behind bars

VANCOUVER – Crown lawyers are asking for up to six months in jail for a man who admitted to beating his dog and leaving it for dead in a Vancouver dumpster last year.

Twenty-six-year-old Brian Whitlock pleaded guilty to an animal cruelty charge in April.

Charges were laid after Captain, a two-year-old German Shepherd, was found in a dumpster last July, wrapped in a bloody blanket.

Despite emergency care, the dog died the next day.

As the Crown described the dog’s injuries in court, animal lovers sitting in the public gallery teared up and covered their faces with their hands.

Whitlock has said he beat his pet with a bat because he believed it had been poisoned, and it was his responsibility to deal with it.