Vucko The German Shepherd, Face Destroyed By Firecracker

Here’s the horrible tale of what happened to Vucko, the German Shepherd.

Two drunken teenagers in Bosnia decided to have “fun” by duct-taping a firework in a German Shepherd’s mouth and blowing off his face. Having done this, they took off, leaving the helpless creature to suffer. The poor dog, known as Vucko, apparently wandered in agony for five days, unable to eat. Finally, he was picked up by authorities and taken to a vetenarian’s office, but had to be euthanized after vets were unable to perform reconstructive surgery.

Watch Vucko Being Examined On The Operating Table

Click here to see some footage of Vucko being examined by vets on the operating table, but be warned that it is extremely graphic. Notice the firework’s shell casing still embedded in the dog’s head.

Vucko’s death doesn’t have to be in vain. This tragedy is a perfect opportunity to promote animal abuse awareness in Bosnia, where animal rights are virtually non-existent, and to work to deter anyone in the future from committing such horrible crimes.

From The Institute For War & Peace Reporting:

In a country racked until relatively recently by savage ethnic warfare, few appear to have time or emotional energy to consider animal welfare.

Nor do the courts offer much guidance to the zoo authorities. Bosnia has no distinct law on the statute books concerning cruelty to animals.

(….)

Humiliation of animals for public entertainment is routine in Bosnia. A television report last October, for example, told the story of a restaurant owner on Mount Vlasic who kept a caged bear to amuse his guests.

His piece de resistance was to intoxicate the animal with liquor every day in front of the diners, claiming the bear “simply loves it”.

Take Action Now!

Given this situation in Bosnia, advocates need to show the world that atrocities such as this won’t simply be seen and then forgotten. Vucko never harmed anyone and his cruel death must not be in vain. He deserves that much from the compassionate people on this earth.

Click here to sign our petition urging the Bosnian government to draft stronger animal cruelty laws, and to hunt down the guilty parties in this tragic case.

Rest in peace, Vucko.

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Dawn M.

10:35PM PST on Feb 22, 2012

this kind of torture is terrible we need to start treating people who do these kinds of things with the same treatment that they do to these animals like putting dog fighters in cages and letting them fight to the death or taping fireworks to these scumbags hands or in their mouths and see how that might deter others from doing this kind of thing,

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Robin B.

10:04PM PST on Feb 19, 2012

There is no reason on this earth as to ever need to harm an animal. I have lost faith in the human race and I am ashamed to be one.
Who decided that humans were so superior to animals that we could maim and torture and murder the innocent?
Sorry to vent but this just makes me sick and angry.
I hope the monsters die a horrific agonizing death where every second feels like an eternity and they beg for a quicker death!

Jessica R.

3:10PM PST on Feb 16, 2012

I suppose the worst that comes from animal abuse is that some of them survive, the lucky ones! The abusers aren't good for us to live by, they should be blown up with firecrackers! I'm so mad, it makes me so upset!

3:08PM PST on Feb 16, 2012

There's a dog with no owner round by my school, he walks round sometimes, I'm scared he will get hurt by one of the kids. One of my friends posted this pic on their wall, someone else wrote "It's face was blown up with a firecracker!" Then someone else said "That is hilarious! Lol! Hahahaha!" He makes me feel sick to my stomache and so do the people who did this to this dog and other animal abusers!!! They need to be killed (Not the animals, the abusers), they aren't safe to walk this earth!

Lydia K.

2:56PM PST on Feb 10, 2012

I have a German Shepherd. His name is Tebow. After a very short discussion, Tebow and I would love to meet these so called "humans" who are more like pondscum. I believe Tebow would love to tell them what he thinks about them and what they did to his brother Vucko...

s. r.

11:35PM PST on Feb 5, 2012

STILL PISSED OFF ABOUT THIS. bastards. i woulda happily adopted that dog.

Becca S.

7:23AM PST on Feb 2, 2012

This is absolutely horrible! Those kids need to suffer for what they did. Why doesn't someone put a firecracker in their mouths!!

Christine P.

8:31PM PST on Jan 27, 2012

This is just a fine example of where humanity is headed... There is no excuse for this type of behavior and these individuals should certainly be held accountable for this atrocity. I firmly believe in karma and these sick mother f-ers will get theirs one way or another. Either by rotting from the inside out of alcoholism, or in the alternative, some fine human being who finds themselves as pissed off as I am from seeing this photo shoves an M80 right up their a$$ leaving them to die a slow and miserable death.

Matthew H.

6:51PM PST on Jan 26, 2012

This cruel act to this dog is only an example of how truly inhumane and psychopathic some people can be. I pray to the Lord that justice is delivered and their Day of Judgement comes, for I have a soft and tender spot in my heart for animals since they have no voice, they have no capacity to be evil and only look to us for our love.

Robert M.

11:41AM PST on Jan 26, 2012

Catch those kids, put some firecrackers in their fuckfaces and blow them off. make sure they survive so they have to live with that! and of course sterilize them to make sure they are eliminated from the human gene pool!