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Updated: April 8, 2024 @ 3:15 am
Atlas the Poodle/Photo provided.
Atlas the Poodle/Photo provided.
Rebecca Rutherford has been charged with accessory to a felony and obstructing an officer.
TULSA, Okla. – According to court records, the owner of a Tulsa dog grooming business where a 4-year-old poodle was beaten to death by an employee has been charged in connection with the case.
Rebecca Rutherford is charged with one count of accessory to a felony and one count of obstructing an officer, according to court records. Prosecutors charged Rutherford on Oct. 10.
Rutherford, who owns Doggy Doodles Grooming on 81st and Harvard, was working on Sept. 1 when groomer Diego Jaimes Angel, 41, punched, strangled and beat Atlas, a 4-year-old poodle during a grooming session, according to court records.
Atlas the Poodle/Photo provided.
Atlas eventually had a seizure during the grooming session and stopped breathing on the grooming table and Angel and Rutherford tried to perform CPR before taking him to a nearby animal hospital for treatment, according to Tulsa Animal Welfare investigators.
Atlas died at the animal hospital and a necropsy was performed to determine his cause of death.
Atlas the Poodle/Photo provided.
Angel was charged with animal cruelty in September and has pleaded not guilty.
Since the death of Atlas, members of the dog grooming community and those seeking justice for Atlas started a petition to investigate Doggy Doodles Grooming, which now goes by the name Elite Doodles Grooming and also operates at a second location. The petition has garnered more than 17,000 signatures in a little over a month.
Rebecca Rutherford is charged with one count of accessory to a felony and one count of obstructing an officer, according to court records.
A dog groomer is accused of beating and choking a dog during an appointment at a Tulsa grooming business earlier this month, according to court documents.
The owner of a Tulsa dog grooming business who was charged in connection with an animal cruelty case was booked into jail on Saturday, jail records show.
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