Family's beloved dog dies after being shot with arrow through heart

FLOYD COUNTY, Ga. — A Floyd County family is looking for whoever shot and killed their beloved dog Sadie with an arrow over the weekend.

“Sadie was my best friend,” said Josh Jarrell, the dog’s owner. “She’s been through a lot.  I was finally able to get her some land, and run on it and be a dog. And to find her like this, that broke me. It really did.”

Jarrell and his wife Mollie moved to Silver Creek just three weeks ago.

Sadie, a black lab, vanished last week.  While worried, Jarrell said he could hear Sadie barking so he knew she was okay. Then on Sunday, he and Mollie decided to search the woods behind their home, and that’s where they said they found Sadie dead with an arrow through her heart.

They discovered the body just 50-yards from her pen. They believed Sadie had only been dead a few hours.

“It is not how I wanted to find her,” said Jarrell.

“It was just everything that I’ve fought to trying to find her, and then some heartless person just shot her and didn’t think twice about it.”

TRENDING STORIES:

• Postal worker killed outside post office ID'd as 22-year-old mother
• 2 Ga. Southern students from Acworth killed in wrong-way crash
• Manhunt underway for suspects who fired at officers, police say

Jarrell wonders if a bow hunter trespassed onto his property and mistook Sadie for a deer.

He said the killer tried to wrench the arrow from his dog’s body but only succeeded in breaking off the end.

Jarrell was able to recover most of the rest of it and hopes deputies can lift fingerprints or a serial number of it to help track the killer down.

“I want to see justice,” Jarrell said. “I want them to answer for their crimes.”

The Jarrells posted what happened to Facebook and now say they’ve received hundreds of replies and reposts.

Now, they've set up a "Justice for Sadie" GoFundMe page to raise reward money to help catch her killer.

Any money not used, they said, will be donated to a local animal shelter.

Mollie Jarrell said the outpouring of love has restored her faith in humanity.

“It definitely makes you feel better about people knowing that, yes, there’s somebody out there that’s awful, but there’s so many more that’s good.”

Cox Media Group