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DMX Animal Cruelty Report Results

Authorities investigating animal cruelty allegations on rapper DMX's Arizona property have issued their gruesome findings.

The investigation stems from an Aug. 24 raid of DMX's Phoenix home, where police were probing reports of animal neglect. Police seized 12 live pit bulls, numerous weapons and about a quarter-ounce of marijuana.

Now forensic reports from a veterinarian examiner from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office states that the condition of animal remains found on the property were "significantly decomposed, the head and rear quarters and legs had a white trash bag around them; the body was wrapped in a dirt-stained beige fitted sheet and inside a clear plastic bag; all placed inside a white body bag." The forensic report also stated that "severe decomposition prevented further examination." There was determinable evidence of injury to just one set of remains.

A detective's summary of the cruelty allegations lists seven different visits to DMX's home, from August 3-22, with several attempts made by the County Sheriff to resolve the issue of alleged neglect of dogs at the residence. The detective actually gave the dogs water. Finally, after no improvement of conditions, a raid took place August 24, seizing 12 pit bulls.

No charges have been filed against the 36-year-old rapper. The matter is still under investigation. Click here to view the documents.

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106. You guys are such hypocrites. You want to give DMX cruel and unusual punishment because of what ya'll THINK he did to a dog. NEWS FLASH: IT'S STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. You don't even know if he did it or not. You should put this much effort into something more important like feed the children, breast cancer awareness, or the fight against HIV/AIDS. Everything with animals is always blown out of proportion. You guys say if he'll hurt animals then he'll eventually hurt humans? That's a bunch of bull! and besides, what about the child molestors, abusers, and killers who already DO hurt humans?! I don't see ya'll saying anything about stopping them here! You all are only saying this because he's a "thugged out rapper" (that's what ya'll love to call him) You're making yourselves sound like a bunch of ignorant, racist people (not racist against black people, but racist against rappers in general) because almost every comment has reffered to him as a thug or rapper. That has nothing to do with it! For all you know the dog might've tried to kill him or something...that is a natural instinct to dogs you know. I have a pit who always breaks lose and fights. I didn't teach him to be that way! Ya'll need to grow up and get a life and stop being so close-minded. LOVE ALL. even rappers. and abusers. God forgives, why can't humans?

Posted at 1:09PM on Oct 7th 2007 by Cakes

107. DMX~ God gave you a good life, a talent and so much career and personal success. And THIS is what you do with your blessings. As a human being, you disgust me.

Posted at 2:40PM on Oct 7th 2007 by If you let your head get too big, it will break your neck.

108. I guess you really CAN learn something new everyday...I didn't know rappers were recognized as a race of people. Shame on me for being a racist against RAP people! And no, Ron Artest's wife/girlfriend or whatever she is, did not stand by him because she thinks he's a good man, she's a gold digger trying to hang on to that money. If she left him what does have...nothing. She'd have to hire a lawyer and ring him by his balls to fill up those fake Gucci and Fendi bags she bought from Vlade Divacs wife Snezana. Oh yeah, one other thing about Artest, this was apparently the first time he has been ARRESTED for animal cruelty but he's no stranger to it, pre-sacramento kings. The words DMX and Talent do not belong in the same sentence, they are contradictory...think Public Enemy or NWA, not about cop killing or bitches and ho's or any of that nonsense but what it's like if you don't live a life of 'privilege'...Chuck D, Easy E, Dr. Dre, Flavor Flav, pre-sellout Ice Cube, those were the good ol' days..oh yeah, and don't forget Wierd Al's - Straight Outta Lynwood.

Posted at 3:24PM on Oct 7th 2007 by My Pit Bull Is My Best Friend

109. ok #11...if you really wanna get like that...lets see...ive been bitten by chihuahuas, yorkshire terriors, boston bulldogs, golden retrievers, dob. pins, mini pins, great danes, newfoundlands, chows, german shepards, pugs...you want ill name it...should we kill them too????? i have worked with very many dogs because i used to work at an animal shelter...they are all at some point goin to bite you be it by accident or for real...but most of the time they are not aggressive...so tell me why if we're goin to put down pits and bull mastiffs and all these others...why dont we just kill the rest?? my point is that every dog bites and that does not mean they are aggressive...we didnt euthanize them when they bit us...the only ones we ever had to euthanize were the ones who had been used to fight...thats it...i know plenty of pits and boxers that we had in there that may have nipped at your hand when grabbing for their bowls or whatever ...but were harmless...

Posted at 9:22PM on Oct 7th 2007 by Heres To You

110. Comment 108 - Gina: I agree with you and good for you. Comment 11 was the most ridiculous posting I read on here. Pathetic person.

Posted at 9:16PM on Oct 7th 2007 by DM

111.
.......................#104 stated......................................."you
hypocrites"...........a hypocrite is a person who puts on a false
appearance of virtue or religion..........the people who hate dog
abusers are not interested in what you think about THEM, only that
dog abusers are punished, so no virtue or religion
there..............#104 stated,............." that we should be putting this much
energy into feeding the children and breast cancer and
AIDs".........how does he know we don't? plus much
more?....................#104 stated,..............."everything with animals is
always blown out of proportion"..............really?......it is
usually not blown up enough, to get, ALL OF AMERICA, after the dog
abusers................#104 stated,.................."that dog abusers don't hurt
people later on in life,".............go to the web site on
Characteristics of Serial Killers............read down the list of 24
items...........#18 is CRUELTY TO ANIMALS........... And by the
way........a god or deity will not be the one to punish DMX if found
guilty.............a god has nothing to do with any of
this.................Society and the Judicial System will punish DMX if found guitly.......by the way........#104...........You said that the dog has a natural instint to kill?.......you know very little about dogs.............and your dog breaking away to fight?..................There is a reason that your dog does the things he does..........IT IS YOUR UNDER EDUCATED KNOWLEDGE OF DOGS..........I suggest you read more.........sorry for the sarcasm........your attitude.


Posted at 9:34PM on Oct 7th 2007 by Max61

112. ...........By #112............Pathetic?............pathetic is an adjective......having the capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity...............you don't know ANY of us do you?................ What happens in a butcher shop is not the killing of the animal..........just the chopping up of the...........flesh,if you like,...........into smaller pieces...........the killing of the animal usually takes place in the slaughter house, and the question is whether the killing is fast or slow........I for one have eaten meat lately, and your point is what?..........that your disdane shows that I am an evil person by your judgement?...........as before, you don't know me......There IS an uproar for the cows, chickens, and pigs........it is the PETA people trying to help all animals everywhere..........so there IS an uproar.............Where is the uproar on Britany and how she handles her kids?.............How about a list of 200 of the worlds problems...........NO, how about a list of 2,000 of the worlds problems?.........Weak Oskaz......TODAY, it is DMX and whether he is quilty of dog abuse and or killing..............If found guilty, then punish to the fullest............There is nothing wrong with being a Vegan.......if you really are,.........completely,...........and not just a sometimes, because it is cool to your friends?

Posted at 11:45PM on Oct 7th 2007 by Max61

113. OK, the common sense compass seems to be running a fowl here...comment 108 you contradict yourself (or your a hypocrite, you decide), in one sentence you say all Rottweiler’s, bull mastiffs and pit bulls should be killed, then you say "bull mastiffs are actually really really kind" and that "they're really just big babies unless you abuse them but, what dog wouldn't turn out mean and bite you if you abuse it" then to top it all off (and I really like this one) you say you own a 1/2 Boston Terrier, 1/2 PIT BULL mix and he's "the nicest dog" and that he's never bitten you...which is it? Would you be the first person to get in line to hand over dog to the breed police? I bet you would throw everyone under the bus that you knew who owned a pit bull or pit bull mix if it meant you could keep your own dog wouldn't you? Look, ALL dogs are potentially deadly (as you say) and any dog that hasn't bitten a person yet is a dog that might bite a person, but why stop there, let's kill all the sharks because hey, they only live in the water and we're just visitors, we can't have them eatin' us all up now can we? What about teenage/young adult drivers? 16-24 year olds are responsible for more traffic fatalities than any other age group so lets kill off all of them, after all, those cars didn't force any of those kids to drive 100 mph through any of those neighborhoods and t-bone little ol' granny on her way home from tea and bridge night and let us not forget white collar high tech criminals...if they haven't already stolen your identity or embezzled your entire 401k it's just a matter of time before they do so we need to get rid of them too. And just to be safe we should probably do away with Xmas...although the holiday itself has probably never actually killed anyone it's probably caused an awful lot of people to knifed or shot for whatever they were carrying back to their cars from Macy's or sprawl mart or where ever it is they were shopping. Any dog unlucky enough to have you for its owner should be afraid, very afraid.

Posted at 1:50AM on Oct 8th 2007 by My Pit Bull Is My Best Friend

114. Comment 113 is on the right track, however, since Britany the trainwreck Spears has already lost custody of her children, a situation which played out to a logical outcome, it's now a non issue. As for 112, dogs were never domesticated for the purpose of being a food source but rather to serve man, a working farm dog to wrangle cattle which unfortunately led to bull baiting then dog fighting. It wasn't until about 1898 that the United Kennel Club (UKC), and around 1909 the American Dog Breeders Association (ADBA) were created for the specific purpose of recognizing the American Pit Bull Terrier (APBT). It was also the UKC which was founded by an APBT. Cows, pigs and chickens on the other hand, were domesticated for the purpose of being a food source (damn, now I got a hankerin’ for a nice big fat rib-eye).

Posted at 3:22AM on Oct 8th 2007 by My Pit Bull Is My Best Friend

115. ...........#115............Your right............Bulldogs and Bull
Baiting was popular and common place..............The cross of
Bulldog and Terrier became the Bull Terrier because he was quicker
and fiestier than the Bulldog.................Bull Baiting was
abolished in 1835.....Dog fighting then became popular, though
illegal..............and the Bull Terrier became the top dog of dog
figting..........In 1865 the mongrel that was imported from England,
to do fighting, became the Boston Terrier..........By 1877 that was
the full beginning of the Boston Terrier.........and not for fighting
by then.............I had the AKC formed in 1884.........1893 was when
the AKC finally accepted the Boston into its registry...............I
had England Kennel Club formed in 1873....................and the
Canadian Kennel Club formed in 1888..............I agree, the United
Kennel Club, the largest registry, 1898.............and
last, the Boston Terrier Club of America, in 1891...............Well,
that was more than anyone would want to here about..........Yes, I
have a Boston.......Since dog fighting started, in earnest, at the end of Bull Baiting.........It may take a while yet, to abolish........it is time.............I wish you and your dog well..............

Posted at 4:34AM on Oct 8th 2007 by Max61

116. TO NUMBER # 4 are you telling me that only thugs are the ones to hurt animals and act in these ways. because it sounds to me that is exactly what you are saying first of all there are millions of white "upper class" people that are not thugs and do the same damn thing if not worse so please dont say we knew these thugs were thugs. Open your damn eyes and see people like you is what is making our "society" go downhill. with your biast and closed mind what a ass. I'm not saying what he did is wrong of course it is but him being a "thug" has nada to do with it. NOTHING AT ALL. (ASS HOLE) and DMX i still love you baby.

Posted at 12:44PM on Oct 8th 2007 by Tranzy

117. I have to be honest, this confuses me. I am a DMX fan, where it seems that most of you are not and know nothing about this man. This guy has always showed his love for dogs, he even has the name of his dog that died tattooed on his body. It just does'nt make sense, because he has always talked about his love for dogs. He is not like Micheal Vick at all. I think what happened was his dogs started fighting and probably ended up killing the other dogs. These are pitbulls people, they do fight each other with or without the help of people. And I think out of his love for his dogs, he buried them in his back yard. That is not uncommon , I am not making up excuses, but I am just speaking from a fan of his point of view. If your not a fan, and you don't know his music than your judgement is based on sterotypes and thats not right. DMX has always confessed his love of dogs, I don't think he would abuse them. I think this could be a huge misunderstanding, and hopefully it will clear up soon.

Posted at 12:15PM on Oct 8th 2007 by J

118. Hey BMX, where you're dogs at? Oh, you tortured them and buried them in your yard? Well, that answers that question.

Posted at 12:29PM on Oct 8th 2007 by english

119. wow what a heap of igorance!! It is not racial and the people who try to play that card will spend the rest of their lives blaming everything that does not go their way on race, what a sorry way to live a life
And to the haters trying to blame the breedof dog, shame on you too!!

Posted at 2:35PM on Oct 8th 2007 by kantankrus

120. #11 for somebody who claims to love all dogs, you seem pathetically ignorant of the fact that any dog, regardless of breed or size, can bite or to put it in your own sorry words "be potentially deadly to all other animals and people." To promote the obliteration of a certain breed simply because you hear more about it on the news shows lack of initiate and blatant stupidity. Perhaps you should do a little research before accusing these noble animals of bloodthirst and violence. Nine out of ten times, when animals attack there is a human reason behind it. It's easy to blame Pitbulls and Rottweilers of viciousness because of their size and appearance (years of human intervention), but they make faithful and wonderful friends to those who take care of them. When a Chihuahua or a Yorkie barks and bites, then it's considered laughable and even cute by people like you, but if that small dog were to grow in size would you consider its growling adorable? Didn't think so! A Pomeranian ripping a baby's face while she lay on the carpet doesn't make the eight o'clock news, even though it has happened. Media reports focus on certain breeds because they have made them into monsters. Why do you think thugs like this moron think they're so tough? They identify their own masculinity on animals that are no more evil or tough than any other. And it's these dogs that suffer the consequences.

Posted at 3:14PM on Oct 8th 2007 by Zelda

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