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SURREY — When a family pet goes missing, one’s mind often imagines the worst-case scenario.

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One Surrey family found themselves living a nightmare over the weekend as they learned their lost dog had been tortured. What he endured was so brutal they never could have imagined it.

He was stabbed repeatedly with either a knife or scissors, had a wedding ring shoved into one eye, while the other eyelid was been punctured with earrings. Lighters, pendants and other jewelry had been forcefully shoved down his throat, leaving cuts in his mouth.

“It’s a horrible experience. Everybody’s saying, ‘Why did you move to Surrey?’ But it’s actually a very nice area, a lot of kids and people with animals,” said the dog’s owner, Ryan Westaway. “I never thought this would’ve happened to us.”

Westaway and his family moved to Surrey’s Chimney Hill area on Feb. 1 from south Langley, where they lived on an acreage. In their large fenced yard, he said their friendly two-year-old black Labrador Ryder would run freely.