David Eason‘s dog-shooting past is catching up with him— or, at least with his new girlfriend.
Kenleigh Heatwole— who has been dating the fired Teen Mom 2 dad since shortly after he split from Jenelle Evans— took to Instagram Stories on Thursday to defend her dog-sitting business, after a local warned other North Carolina residents not to let Kenleigh babysit their animals, due to the fact that she’s living with David, a person who admitted to shooting his family’s dog in 2019.
(As The Ashley previously told you, David was previously shacking up on his and Jenelle’s broken boat, but is now living full-time with Kenleigh, his 25-year-old girlfriend.)
On Wednesday, a North Carolina resident posted a warning on the “All Things Dogs- Wilmington NC” Facebook page, telling other locals that Kenleigh– who babysits dogs as a side job— is currently living with David, a man who publicly admitted to shooting his family’s small dog, Nugget, back in 2019. The post was reposted by the @TeenMomShadeRoom Instagram account on Wednesday.
“Beware! This sitter lives with David Eason,” the post— which also included an article about David killing Nugget in 2019— reads. “Very dangerous for your dog to be around him.”
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Kenleigh responded to the post on Facebook, adding that she has very good reviews on dog-sitting sites. However, the original poster had a lot to say in response.
“The people who left the [good] reviews for you likely don’t know that your live-in boyfriend murdered a dog for snapping at a child,” the person wrote. “What happens if he is with you while you’re taking care of someone’s dog and it snaps at him? He’s obviously a loose cannon and has no business being around animals. You claim to be an animal lover yet you’re in a relationship with that POS?”
Kenleigh replied to the commenter again, writing that what they’ve posted is “untrue.”
“It amazes me every day how people who have never met someone and was not there in person to witness these allegations have the most to say,” she responded.
Kenleigh then took to her own Instagram Stories to post a message to the “Karens” who posted about her and David on the Facebook page.
“My clients (who are also my friends) are well aware of who I’m dating and have spent time getting to know who he is and still trust their dogs in my care,” Kenleigh wrote. “So good luck to the Karens posting on FB community groups. Karma is a b*tch.”
She then alluded that she was not against David’s decision to shoot the dog.
“Just because you don’t believe in a certain way of taking care of things doesn’t make it wrong or even illegal.”
Although he eventually admitted to shooting Nugget, David initially lied to police about shooting the dog. Months later, Jenelle even tried to tell authorities that she and David made up the whole dog-shooting incident for “publicity.” (No, seriously.)
David admitted to killing Nugget, and authorities launched an official investigation into the incident. The shooting of Nugget kicked off a chain of events that contributed to Jenelle being fired from ‘Teen Mom 2,’ and David and Jenelle losing temporary custody of their children.
After splitting with David in February of this year, Jenelle claimed in court paperwork that David had allegedly killed another dog recently. Jenelle stated that one of the family’s puppies died after it was run over by David while he was trying to leave their home on The Land in Jenelle’s car.
“David has an argument with Jenelle outside of house in the driveway,” the paperwork submitted by Jenelle states of the alleged incident, which she said took place in February. “David storms off, gets into Jenelle’s Toyota Sequoia to drive away without asking Jenelle’s permission, pulls out really fast, ran over a puppy, and killed it.”
Jenelle stated that David’s oldest daughter, Maryssa, witnessed the puppy’s alleged death.
David has also been accused of killing or mistreating other kinds of animals. In April 2021, David’s own daughter Ensley— who was four at the time– blurted out while David was live on social media that David had allegedly killed some of the family’s baby chicks.
“Remember you killed the baby chicks?” Ensley told her dad while his camera was rolling. “Don’t shoot them again! Then I’ll be so mad.”
David denied killing chicks several time, but Ensley stuck to her story, telling her Dad, “Yesterday you killed a baby chick.”
David then started to get angry, asking her, “Why, why would you say that?”
“Because you did!” Ensley replied
“No I did not!” David said before getting even more angry and telling his daughter, “I will smack you in the mouth!”
The video cut off after that, and Jenelle defended David soon after, writing on Instagram that it “never happened.”
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Maryssa…where is she these days? I’d almost forgotten about that poor girl. Is she 18 yet? Is she living with her mother again? I was never sure of the story behind her mother and how she ended up with David…
Clearly she’s not a true animal lover as she wouldn’t have gave that monster the time of day.
Her business needs taking off her as no animal is safe near him and clearly not safe near her either.
Seems the monster as found some other delusional female to step in janelles shoes.
IF it was an isolated incident and we had few details… sure, her statement makes sense… we weren’t there, weren’t involved, blah blah.
Except…
We have too many details.
His continual extreme violence, his penchant for anger and pulling weapons on people for very little. The sheer number of assaults. Jail time or not.
Then… the amount of animal incidents he’s known for.
The ones he isn’t.
I mean, there are quite a few dogs and other animals that have gone missing without stories, some who’s stories don’t make sense…
I could be her client and meet him. He could be charming, disarming, and completely put me at ease. Like, just, totally whatever she’s claiming.
I still could never leave my dog with her again.
That’s like leaving my 3,000 page rap sheet family member alone in my friends house with pills, car keys, and emergency cash unsecured, in charge of a difficult baby. (All things he’s had run ins about)
Is he a changed person, sure… but, it’d still be risky and irresponsible.
How someone can’t understand that logic and lash out at people who see the obvious issue…and feel concerned for others is beyond me.
Even though his rage and anger is directed only at Janelle, seemingly justified as he’s being victimized by a crazy woman,and she’s not seeing the instability otherwise…
Come on, now.
Not to mention,
HER.
She’s not “aware” of the issue and professional, assuring etc.
She’s excusing, minimizing, and lashing out at people who are rightly concerned, (aggitating, they are acting sure, it affects business) and as a client, that would make me uncomfortable, too.
It doesn’t show she’s taking legitimate concerns seriously.
He shot one puppy and ran another over! WTF!? Even if Kenleigh was the bestest dog sitter ever, I would NEVER be okay leaving my pet with her ever again now that David lives in! She can be normal and good, but her BF is obviously a manipulative psychopath. Sometimes the psychopaths get their claws into a vulnerable normie, it’s the highest level of pay off for a creepy psychopath if they can get a “normie” to support them. They then get access to all that person’s contacts. She COULD just be the vulnerable normie….
But shooting Nugget on purpose to kill that poor puppy was its own whole sort of evil!
And even if I “trusted” Kensleigh (I keep typing her name different each time bc it’s such a “trajedeigh”) about that…. David ran over ANOTHER puppy he wasn’t even “protecting” anyone from just by being the sort of asshole that is in such a volatile relationship that he just slams a vehicle (not even belonging to him) into reverse and peels out, running over and killing whatever is in his way!
I don’t even want to say “this time it was a pupppy…but next time it could be a child,” bc killing a puppy because you were more focused on giving your partner a show of your manipulative, performative, rage-leaving, is horrific on its own!!! Especially when it was just for show! What TF did that puppy do to “deserve it” like you claimed Nugget did!?
And the second dog definitely could’ve been a child. He either didn’t see behind him, didn’t care if he killed, or saw and intentionally continued on to kill the puppy. This time it was a puppy that he didn’t even have the slightest alibi for. There was no “it was attacking a child so I had to murder it for defense.” This was just full on murder.
If I’m someone who is hiring Kenleigh to be my dog-sitter….I am 100% not at all so invested in HER so much that I’m willing to risk my dog’s life with her new swamp king, multi-dog-murdering, BF. At least two dogs have died at his hands! Not like “oh two dogs lived to old age and then were put down when they were super old to alleviate their suffering.” No. He murdered 2 puppies!
And if I remember right, he used chicks for target practice (He told Ensley he’d beat her if she said if again on the live he was doing), and he’s eaten the family goat in a pretty vindictive way.
Girl..
Stay offline about him.
Don’t post these rebuttals, these defenses, the arguing back and forth about things we all know for a FACT, the “you don’t know the truth”.. just go ahead and make all that stop. You will not win that fight. Not even once.
Good, I hope she loses business due to this! It’s like the expression says, if you lay with the dogs, you get fleas! If you wanna be dumb/naive with him, that’s on you, but don’t expose poor dogs to possible harm!
1. Yes, karma is a b*tch and you’ll experience that soon enough.
2. Shooting a dog is very much illegal. Mistreating animals is also illegal.
3. Being so desperate for d*ck that you need to cling to that swamp, unemployed redneck is beyond pathetic.
How does that ogre David get so many delusional chicks when he looks and acts like a swamp creature.
“It’s not illegal.” It is where I live. Killing an animal means jail time. The only time you can shoot a dog is if the dog is chasing deer. Which I’ve never heard of anyone shooting one in the 35 years I’ve lived here for that. I wonder what goes on in this girls head. She is so not right mentally. Sometimes I do wonder if she’s a sycophant.