Wisconsin dog killed by arrow, prompting campaign for justice

Tanya Meyer knew that something wasn’t right.

She let her two dogs, Zoey and Maggie, out of the house and into the surrounding woods in the small town of Rome, Wis., where they live. Maggie came lumbering back within moments last Friday morning. But Zoey, a chocolate 1 1/2-year-old Labrador mix, was nowhere to be seen.

“I started calling for her and she wasn’t answering,” Meyer told the Los Angeles Times. She was worried because the area around her isolated central Wisconsin house is mostly forested, and regularly used as hunting grounds.

That day and through the weekend, Meyer — along with her dad and her husband — searched for Zoey without success.

On Monday, Meyer’s husband, Chris, found Zoey on a neighbor’s property. She was lying on her side, lifeless, with an arrow wound in her neck. The dog was 30 feet from a hunter’s tree stand, he told Rome police.

Acting Rome Police Chief Sgt. Jason Lauby confirmed to The Times that the dog was found dead with an arrow wound, but could not release information about the location of the wound or whether the dog was discovered on a neighbor’s property. The Rome Police Department and the Adams County Sherriff’s Department are still investigating, he said.