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By: Jaclyn Schultz, FOX 5 Atlanta
POSTED: DEC 27 2018 10:46PM EST

VIDEO POSTED: DEC 27 2018 11:16PM EST

UPDATED: DEC 28 2018 06:16AM EST

PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) – A family came home on Christmas Eve to a frightening discovery: someone has shot the puppy named Ridley in the throat.

Their other puppy named Max is still missing and nowhere to be found.

Paulding deputies said the ordeal happened the morning of Christmas Eve on the family’s property off Friendship Church Road and Winn Road.

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“Everyone was crying. We were all praying and hoping for the best,” said 18-year-old Courtney George, who lives next door to her grandparent’s property.

Monday morning, she said Ridley and Max were playing on her grandparents’ acreage when her father heard gunshots; her grandfather came home to find Ridley bleeding.

Ridley was rushed to a hospital, where…