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Chihuaha OK after burglars put her in freezer
Gideon Rubin
Los Angeles Daily News
Feb. 2, 2007 10:28 AM
LANCASTER, Calif. - Roxy was still shivering Thursday -- the tiny Chihuahua was OK, but the day before had spent hours in a freezer, dumped there by burglars annoyed by her barking 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, Deputy Melissa Sullivan checked the large freezer next to the living room and found the frigid Chihuahua, barely alive.
"I don't know 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, who gave her a clean bill of health.
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."
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