A photo of Mocha, a 7-year-old chocolate Lab and Rocky a 6-year-old Alaskan Malamute sits on Amy Tubbs’ office desk. She reflects, as her two lovable dogs are now gone.

Tubbs said, “They’re just, they’re amazing and to have this happen is just absolutely devastating.”

Over the weekend her two dogs were found shot and killed in Berne. Police say a shotgun was used. Tubbs had let her dogs out Saturday afternoon like she normally does, but this time they never returned. It was Monday morning when sheriff’s deputies arrived at her door saying they’d found the dogs.

Tubbs said the officers told her, “It was really awful the way they were left.”

The dogs were actually found on a trail at the Partridge Run Wildlife area, which is a few miles from Tubbs’ home.

Tubbs said, “I’m either thinking, they lurred them into a vehicle, drove them there and shot them or shot them somewhere else and dumped them there.”

Tubbs believes the person or persons who did this probably lived nearby but the question that still lingers, is why?

She said Mocha and Rocky were the sweetest dogs, who were friendly with her neighbors.

Sheriff’s deputies have been canvassing the neighborhood. The only evidence they have is from the bullets, which may not provide much evidence at all.

Albany County Undersheriff Craig Apple said, “If somebody did this out of a pure violent act, you know they pay the price for it.”

Tubbs said, “Why they would go after someone’s pets like this is very disturbing.”

Tubbs’ hopes someone comes forward. In the meantime she’s mounring the loss of two dogs who were and will always be part of the family.

Wildlife pathologist Ward Stone is performing a necropsy on the two dogs. Results could take a week.

Even if this was an accident, anyone with any information at all is urged to call the Albany County Sheriff’s Department at 765-5979