David Rea says he’s an animal lover. “I’m very compassionate towards animals,” the Finley pastor told the Tri-City Herald. But since he admitted to killing a six-month-old puppy by slashing its throat three times, some are wondering if the man of God doesn’t have some issues with dogs.Last Saturday, Christy Rose was at work when she got a call from a friend saying her two six-month-old Siberian huskies had gotten loose. By the time she got home one of the dogs had been corralled by a neighbor. But the other, Jack, was nowhere to be found.Christy Rose holds Demon, the puppy that wasn’t killed by the pastor who lives next door.Rose knocked on Rea’s door and asked if he’d seen her dog. “Your puppy is no more,” he told her. “He’s dead.”According to Rea, Jack had wandered into his chicken coop and gone into a frenzy. He only took a knife to the dog’s throat, he says, after the puppy had already killed a dozen laying hens. But Rose is understandably upset. Especially since her kids are now afraid to wait at their bus stop, seeing as how it’s in front of the home where their puppy died. It’s also not the first time this year Rea has committed dogicide.On New Year’s Eve, the pastor of Tri-Cities Baptist shot a 10-year-old black lab that was cutting across the front of his lawn. The dog, which was being walked off-leash by its owner at the time, suffered severe leg wounds and had to be put down.Rae, again, insisted that he had a good reason for the shooting. Saying he mistook the dog for one of a pack that had been terrorizing the neighborhood.But his dog-owning neighbors are, understandably, worried that a guy who lives nearby keeps having so many violent misunderstandings with the local canine population. “It’s just a horrible feeling to have that thought that my dog could get out …”, one told the Herald while looking at his pets. “I don’t want to deal with that.”