The dog was a normally-placid sheltie-corgi mix.
A seven-year-old Oklahoma boy has been killed by a dog his family took in just three weeks earlier.
The parents of James McNeelis called police on Wednesday evening after their son, who had been playing in the back yard, appeared to have wandered off.
But just 20 minutes after Creek County Deputies arrived and began searching, the boy’s body was discovered by his father at the rear of the property. He had been mauled to death.
“He was out playing and they called him for dinner … no response,” a shaken Chief Deputy Chris Leach told KJRH.
“It doesn’t look like any foul play,” he said shortly after the grim find. “It looks like, preliminary investigations indicate, some sort of an animal.”
Investigators would later confirm that the animal was the family’s own pet of just three weeks.
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