'This is nuts': Harahan vet accused of killing neighbor's dog because of its barking 
 
 'This is nuts': Harahan vet accused of killing neighbor's dog because of its barking 

 The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office arrested a Harahan veterinarian accused of fatally shooting her neighbor's dog because of constant barking, authorities said. 
 
 Dr. Kelly Folse, 35, was booked Tuesday (Dec. 19) with aggravated animal cruelty, according to interim Sheriff Joseph Lopinto. Folse was also booked with illegal discharge of a firearm and two counts of drug possession after investigators found undisclosed narcotics at her home in the 8900 block of Camille Drive in River Ridge. 
 
 "This is crazy, a veterinarian shooting a dog of her next door neighbor. This is nuts. I don't know how else to put it," Lopinto said. 
 
 Folse is accused of shooting Bruizer, a 15-month-old American bull dog that belongs to her next-door neighbor, on the afternoon of Dec. 13. Bruizer's owner, Stacey Fitzner, told Fox 8 that she'd left the pup in the backyard of her home when she went to work. 
 
 But a relative returned home to find Bruizer lying in the grass with a gunshot wound to the back of his head. It was clear, Fitzner said, that someone pushed open the gate to her backyard and shot her dog. 
 
 The family coincidentally took Bruizer to Abadie Veterinary Hospital in Harahan, the clinic where Folse works, Lopinto said. She was not the treating vet, he noted. Folse was not at the business when Bruizer arrived. 
 
 The dog did not survive his injuries, according to authorities. 
 
 Sheriff's Office investigators spoke to Bruizer's owners, who shared a series of hostile text messages and videos from Folse, who was complaining about the dog's constant barking, according to Lopinto. 
 
 "He (Bruizer's owner) believed and suspected that she may have had something to do with it," Lopinto said. 
 
 Deputies eventually secured a search warrant for Folse's home and found the narcotics Tuesday. They have not yet recovered a weapon. 
 
 Folse was taken into custody Tuesday. She was fired from the veterinary hospital, Lopinto said. 
 
 Folse was being booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna. No bond information was available.
– Louisiana veterinarian Kelly Folse's prescription for a barking dog next door was a bullet, police say. Folse, 35, was booked on aggravated cruelty to an animal Tuesday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. She also faces charges of drug possession and illegal discharge of a firearm. Police say Folse shot Bruizer, her next-door neighbor's 15-month-old American bulldog, in the head when her neighbor was out on the afternoon of Dec. 13. The family took the wounded animal to the Abadie Veterinary Hospital in Harahan, where Folse works, but it died from its injuries the next day. Folse was not involved in caring for the dog, authorities say. The hospital fired Folse on Tuesday. Police say the neighbor, suspecting Folse had shot her dog, showed them hostile messages from the vet complaining about constant barking. Narcotics were found in the vet's home after police obtained a search warrant. "This is crazy, a veterinarian shooting a dog of her next-door neighbor," Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said Tuesday. "This is nuts. I don't know how else to put it." He added: "This is not supposed to be normal. Someone lost a pet today ... I don't care how much it barks; this is not appropriate behavior," per the Advocate. (A Texas veterinarian who killed a cat with a bow and arrow did not permanently lose her license.)