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Bruce McNabb physically beat my dog to death (outside my presence.) The dog had been sent to him for retrieve training several years ago. I had been talked into letting him train his retrieves rather than myself so that the dog didn't create conflict in he and I's relationship. He strung the dog out between two points where the dog couldn't defend himself and kicked him repeatedly in the stomach by his own admission. Seeing the dog in pain and anguish, he then put him in a kennel and left him there to die. After the dog died I was contacted by a then mutual friend and informed my dog was dead. We went to pick him up and my mutual friend kept us separated and I gathered my dog, still not knowing all the facts. I delivered the dog for a necropsy, where I learned the dog died from internal injuries due to his liver being torn almost in half from the blows Bruce later admitted to delivering to the dog. I was asked my mutual friends not to pursue criminal charges on him and to consider his family. I regret not seeing him prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He fully admitted everything to me and begged not to take action. It drove me to never rely on anyone else for training assistance, and to never trust anyone with the care of my animals again. This was approximately ten years ago. I made a huge mistake letting this man take my dog for this training. My dog was a beautiful black sable German Shepherd I had raised from a puppy. He left me perfectly healthy. I picked him up in a filthy kennel with digested blood everywhere, where he had been left to die medically unassisted, by Bruce McNabb.

Fast forward 2014, his wife contacted me on Facebook and tried to argue with me on a comment I made completely unrelated to them in any way. I brought up her husband murdering my dog and blocked her. Today's date, 06/21/2014 at 2:29pm, Bruce McNabb contacted me by telephone by a blocked number and threatened me I had "better not talk about him or he'd come do the same to me he did to my dog." He then stated "Do you wanna know how he died? Wallowing in his own pi*s and sh*t crying out. And you know what? I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed listening to him die."

I believe Bruce has also been since convicted of animal cruelty for another act at First Friend K9 but I can't say with 100% certainty, I just heard about it.

I want anyone that considers taking a dog to Bruce McNabb at First Friend K9 to know exactly the kind of person that is running that and claiming to be a dog trainer. The kind of person capable of such an act and then capable years and years later to brag with delight what he did is beyond words. It's disgusting. This man made other threats to me also. I consider him highly disturbed and dangerous. These are not the actions of a rational person.