Dog torturer accused of terrorizing natal unit keeps scoring bail
B.C. woman could have been hit with two years in the slammer and a $75,000 fine, but wasn't.
Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Published Mar 23, 2026 • 3 minute read
DOG TORTURER: Lindsey Susan Hirtreiter, a power hitter in the game of life. SURREY POLICE
DOG TORTURER: Lindsey Susan Hirtreiter, a power hitter in the game of life. SURREY POLICE
WARNING: Graphic details
Lindsey Susan Hirtreiter is a pretty great example of the Canadian justice system’s alternative universe.
Never mind any of that common-sense foolishness.
Hirtreiter is a veritable poster girl for Canada’s revolving door, junk justice system. And she will soon be rolling again.
Friendly dog disappears
Back in 2014, the British Columbia woman made the big time. In more self-righteous-than-thou B.C., only an alleged racial quip can land one in more hot water and social shame than harming an animal.
Hirtreiter was 23 at the time, a single mother and living in Surrey.
According to reports, on Valentine’s Day 2014, a friendly Labrador named Ryder vanished from his family’s backyard. He was discovered the next day with horrific injuries. He had been bound, beaten and stabbed multiple times. And in a sickening twist, lighters and jewelry had been jammed down his throat.
NICE: BCSPCA
NICE: BCSPCA
Enough? A belly-button piercing was shoved into poor Ryder’s eyelids and behind the socket. Only emergency surgery saved his sight.
In do-gooder Canada criminals are merely misunderstood lambs and by the golly, they would be running the Royal Bank if it wasn’t for (phobia or ism goes here). People just like Lindsey Susan Hirtreiter, 35.
Hirtreiter pleaded guilty but told detectives that Ryder had viciously attacked her four-year-old daughter. The reality is that the left coast court heard she was in a psychotic state after smoking reefer.
Court outcomes laughable
Of course, the outcome of the proceedings were laughable and just in time for new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the clown prince of the criminally laughable. Hirtreiter pleaded guilty to one count of causing an animal to be in distress.
Huh?
She could have been hit with two years in the slammer and a $75,000 fine but instead prosecutors asked for two years’ probation and a lifetime ban on owning animals.
Huh?
RYDER: A very friendly dog. BCSPCA
RYDER: A very friendly dog. BCSPCA
And naturally, like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, there is more. Much more.
Anyone who has ever taken the 101 on the criminal mind will tell you, animal abuse is always, always first stop on the path to violence. Then it ramps up. It is the playbook of every monster who has terrorized us physically and in our nightmares for the past 100 years.
Like the cat, she came back
On Oct. 28, 2025, our Lindsey, looking worse for wear since the dog incident, allegedly strides into the Surrey Memorial Hospital in the early morning hours. Cops say she proceeds to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit where she allegedly ditches her shirt.
And then she held multiple infants, not hers, giving them skin-to-skin contact. The result was a two-hour security incident at the hospital but don’t worry, staff and security let her walk out the door. Cops later pinched her but the judge … LOL! … grants bail at $500.
She is arrested days later for another violent crime but rated “low risk” by a judge and sprung once more
As part of her bail conditions, she was ordered to stay away from her alleged victims and all NICUs in B.C. Home would be at addiction recovery centre Glory House in Mission.
Then, like a small child on Christmas morning, the judge let’s her go on a pittance of bail. You don’t see that kind of faith at Sunday School.
‘Furious and deeply distressed’
According to Global News, a reporter went to the facility where the obviously deeply troubled Lindsey Susan Hirtreiter had been ordered to reside. Not there and they, uh, didn’t know where she was. No wonder, she was busted again Friday.
This time it was under Section 512.3 of the Criminal Code. In that instance a justice can issue a “warrant if there are reasonable grounds to believe that an accused has contravened or is about to contravene a release order.”
Hirtreiter listed a Surrey address as home. The residents said they had never heard of her.
The owner of Ryder the friendly black lab tortured by this sicko is “furious and deeply distressed.”
So should we all.
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globalnews.ca
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