SheriffStutsJamestown (CSi) The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s assistance for information in three ongoing cases involving pets.

The animals were shot near their owners’ homes in the Ypsilanti and Montpelier areas.

Stutsman County Sheriff detective, Jason Falk says four pets, two dogs and two cats were shot in August and September.

On August 9th , two Pyrenees dogs, Gracie and Georgia Rose, were shot in the yard of their owners, the Robert and Myra Olson family. Gracie was shot by a .22-caliber rifle and Georgia was shot three times by a shotgun. Both dogs continue to recover from their wounds.

On August 26, Falk Michael Keyes arrived at his Ypsilanti-area home around 5:30 p.m. and found his cat dead. Falk  said the cat had been shot in the head by a small-caliber weapon.

On September 7th Jenny Olson found her cat shot in the stomach in the yard of her Ypsilanti home.  He said she took the cat, which was wearing a collar, to a veterinarian, but the animal died the next day.

Falk says there may be additional pet shootings.

Anyone with information on these or any other unreported pet shootings in the Ypsilanti-Montpelier area to call him at the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office at 701- 251-6200.