Owner of Karma the 'Dangerous Dog' Facing Charges for Criminal Assistance, Harassment in Lewis County Superior Court - Centralia Chronicle

By Isabel Vander Stoep  / isabel@chronline.com

A Chehalis pistillate is facing charges of rendering transgression assistance successful the 2nd grade and harassment aft an alleged incidental wherever a insignificant successful her attraction harassed and killed a feline and a 2nd wherever she posted a banner facing her neighbor’s spot that work “payback is simply a bitch,” according to tribunal documents.

On Oct. 25, she was summonsed to Lewis County Superior Court. A proceeding has not yet been scheduled, but apt volition beryllium wrong 3 to 4 weeks. 

Rebecca Nichols, 81, was precocious astatine the halfway of a Chronicle quality communicative astir her rottweiler, Karma, that had been labeled a “dangerous dog” by the Lewis County Dangerous Animal Designation Board and was euthanized aft Nichols failed to comply with rules successful bid to support her.

Lewis County Humane Officer Alishia Hornburg worked with Nichols for respective months to bring her into compliance owed to the 81-year-old’s precocious age, the caller nonaccomplishment of her hubby and Hornburg’s content that Karma was a manageable favored that was designated unsafe lone aft her erstwhile owner’s irresponsibility.

But aft the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office responded to an incidental connected the spot connected Sept. 7, Hornburg’s leniency with Nichols rapidly reached an end. A neighbor, Corey Owens, provided a video of a insignificant successful Nichols’ attraction who “had a feline connected a leash and, arsenic evidenced by video footage, was seen dragging the feline astir and slamming it to the ground,” according to tribunal documents. A aesculapian introspection connected the feline showed it suffered a breached neck, causing its death.

Considering the child’s age, The Chronicle is choosing to withhold the minor’s name. Charges are apt to person been filed successful juvenile court, but the nationalist does not person entree to those records.

During informational gathering for a communicative connected the lawsuit of Karma the dog, Owens called The Chronicle to study what he’d told the sheriff’s office. He said he’d been successful combat during service, but watching this incidental was chilling successful a mode dissimilar thing he’d witnessed.

When an serviceman responded, Nichols claimed the feline was inactive alive, but that she was incapable to find it astatine the time, tribunal documents said. She was reportedly “evasive successful her answers” and continued to glimpse successful the absorption of wherever the responding lawman yet recovered a achromatic integrative container containing the assemblage of the dormant cat. When confronted with the find of the body, documents said Nichols admitted to placing the feline successful the bag.

Hornburg was contiguous during the deputy’s effect and reported seeing Karma extracurricular Nichols’ six-sided enclosure — which is simply a request for dogs designated arsenic dangerous. That usurpation provided origin for the county’s seizure of the dog. Hornburg’s eyes flooded with tears arsenic she recounted driving Karma to the structure earlier the canine was acceptable to beryllium euthanized.

“She was a saccharine girl,” Hornburg said.

The rottweiler was ruled unsafe aft 1 incidental chasing horses and different wherever a feline was bitten and importantly injured. Her proprietor astatine the clip claimed her companion dog, a husky named Lobo, was the superior aggressor successful some situations and that Karma had lone been pursuing his lead.

On Oct. 7, instrumentality enforcement responded to the residence again aft the neighbour reported Nichols allegedly hung the profane banner facing his home. The 2 neighbors person had aggregate expired extortion orders betwixt them, according to tribunal records.

Documents stated that fixed the past betwixt the two, the motion was believed to beryllium a threat.

In the aboriginal 2000s, Nichols and her husband, Wayne Nichols, made nationalist quality for a lawsuit adjacent Brothers, Oregon, wherever the 2 had neglected a herd of 128 horses. Before that, they’d made erstwhile appearances successful headlines for a akin lawsuit successful Thurston County successful 1995, wherever the mates submitted a plea woody and relinquished astir of their herd, arsenic reported by the East Oregonian.

To work The Chronicle’s sum of the communicative connected Karma the dog, sojourn https://www.chronline.com/stories/karma-the-dog-chehalis-womans-dangerous-pet-set-to-be-euthanized,301234.