Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.WATCH: Shannon McCarrell was woken up in Fisherville, Ont., on March 13 by her teenage son telling her McTavish, one of four pet emus, was dead. Provincial police are investigating it as a case of animal cruelty, and McCarrell said that she wants the perpetrators to "get the maximum penalty" and "be made an example of.
“I don’t know if their plan was to do it to all of them. My husband had gotten up at about 3:45 to let the puppy out because he wanted to go out for a pee. We’re thinking he might have scared them away,” she said. “My husband had brought chickens home and then I became a bird person. And I kept teasing him that I wanted an ostrich. And then he’s like, ‘No, you’re not getting an ostrich.’ And then it turned into, ‘Fine, we’ll settle for an emu.’”
She calls her farm Mizfit Farms, in reference to the Island of Misfit Toys from the 1964 adaptation of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.