Witnesses told police this week that they pleaded with Boone county resident, Audrey Ranch, 62, to stop hurting her son’s pit bull, but she refused.![old-woman-mug-640](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_t00lGXSNYIpmdFTUYJwkf1ftSNTeJYXj4W3H1kHBAj5eSQLMYGu1ZRZ1KRxuBfPmxkZsdSTIcaB6qNVOUvfPAhDo3fAOsnF6zyJpjml7pQqXave_SitCxvDR1KS--tjsT_Py4sQio=s0-d)
“Eventually she bit Pedro’s acorns clean off right there in the front yard,” a witness said. “Pedro hightailed it screeching like a wild Indian and when I tried to subdue Audrey, she knocked me out with an old tricycle.”
Realizing the police had been called and knowing she had time to hide (it is a 45 minute drive to her house), Mrs. Ranch cut off a length of garden hose, dug a hole and had her son help bury her. She used the garden hose as a breathing apparatus.
Officers from the Boone County Sheriff’s Office arrived, unburied Ranch and arrested her without incident.
Ranch explained her actions to police: “My son ate all the meat and I had warned him if he ate all the meat, I’d eat his dog.”
The dog underwent emergency surgery and is expected to make a full recovery. Ranch is facing charges of aggravated animal cruelty.