ICE CHIHUAHUA COLD-HEARTED BURGLARS POP PUP IN FREEZER.Byline: GIDEON RUBIN Staff Writer LANCASTER -- Roxy was still shivering shivering /shiv·er·ing/ (shiv´er-ing) 1. involuntary shaking of the body, as with cold. 2. a disease of horses, with trembling or quivering of various muscles. shivering see shiver, stringhalt. Thursday -- the tiny Chihuahua was OK, but the day before had spent hours in a freezer freezer the compartment in which meat and offal are stored at freezing temperatures of 10 to 16°F (-12 to -9°C) although there is a trend to lower temperatures of 0 to -22°F (-18 to -30°C). , dumped there by burglars annoyed by her barking bark 1 n. 1. The harsh sound uttered by a dog. 2. A sound, such as a cough, that is similar to a dog's bark. v. barked, bark·ing, barks v.intr. 1. as they rifled her family's Lancaster home. The 2-year-old dog stayed close to her mistress, Kimberly Holzer, whose own tears streamed down her face. ``I know why they did it,'' Holzer said. ``They probably just wanted to shut her up, but it boggles my mind that they would throw an animal into a freezer.'' ``It was just really cruel.'' A team of five burglars broke into Holzer's house Wednesday morning while she was at work. A neighbor saw youths jumping the fence, called the Lancaster sheriff's station, and five suspects were arrested a short time later. Holzer, who is pregnant with twins and whose Air Force husband is stationed in Afghanistan, was notified at work and asked her mother to check on Roxy. ``That was my main concern,'' Holzer said. Sheriff's deputies searched the home exhaustively and were about to leave, having assumed Roxy had run away. Then, on a whim whim n. 1. A sudden or capricious idea; a fancy. 2. Arbitrary thought or impulse: governed by whim. 3. A vertical horse-powered drum used as a hoist in a mine. , Deputy Melissa Sullivan checked the large freezer next to the living room and found the frigid frig·id adj. 1. Extremely cold. 2. Persistently averse to sexual intercourse. Chihuahua, barely alive. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. why I decided to open it,'' Sullivan said. ``I really didn't think people could be so cruel. It was disgusting.'' Roxy immediately was taken to a veterinarian veterinarian /vet·er·i·nar·i·an/ (vet?er-i-nar´e-an) a person trained and authorized to practice veterinary medicine and surgery; a doctor of veterinary medicine. vet·er·i·nar·i·an n. , who gave her a clean bill of health a certificate from the proper authority that a ship is free from infection. See also: Clean . Five suspects -- Devean Irvin, 20, and four juveniles, all from Lancaster -- were arrested at the house or nearby, deputies said. They were booked on suspicion of animal cruelty, burglary and receiving stolen property. Thousands of dollars worth of items had been taken from the house, most of it recovered at a house a block away. Holzer said Roxy remained traumatized, noting that the normally independent dog follows her wherever she goes and is fearful of strangers. ``I don't even know what to say at this point,'' Holzer said. ``Everything in my house, whatever's damaged, whatever's lost, is stupid replaceable stuff, but she's not.'' gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com (661) 267-7802 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Two-year-old Roxy got a clean bill of health after burglars placed her in a freezer Wednesday, but the dog is sticking close to her owner after the incident. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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