Just When We Thought It Was Safe...

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NO, not to go back in the water, to go OUTSIDE! I have always considered this a fairly safe neighborhood. That is, until tonight. Let me back up to around two o'clock this afternoon. My hubby and I were out on the front porch, and we noticed a group of people walking around looking towards their feet in the empty field across the street. We thought it odd, but didn't pay them much mind. People are always doing curious things, right? Totally forgot about it by two-thirty. About five o'clock, there was a knock at the front door. It was one of the neighbors down the street. He informed me that he let his dog out early this morning (before daylight) and it never came back. The dog was quite old, and rarely left the yard, so when the sun came up (about thirty minutes later) he went to look for it. He found it in the field. Its throat had been cut, and all of his skin was removed. He said they were walking around the field this afternoon to try to find some blood, as there was not a drop around the dog. They never found any except the smear that was directly under the body. Now I'm no Columbo, but usually when you cut a living thing's throat, there is a LOT of blood. This has just sickened me to the bone, and to be quite honest, it has frightened me to the bone as well. Why would someone do this? Has anything like this ever happened in your neighborhood?