To all the dog owners

stacey · August 2006

Just came across this little article on Gothamist:

There are lunatics out there. Some jerk left a 2 pound ham in Central Park that a dog found and, being a 6 year old Labrador retriever, he ate the meat. Only for the dog's owner, Martha Redding, to throw away the meat and discover it was full of 3-inch pins. Milo the dog ate 31 pins, and his vet fed him three cans of dog food and induced vomiting to get rid of them. Luckily, the vomiting was successful and Milo is pin-free. The Central Park Conservancy emailed dog walkers to warn them about suspcicious packages. The ASPCA's Special Agent Joseph Pentangelo says they are investigating the matter: "It certainly is a crime. No reasonable person could commit an act like this and think it wouldn't be harmful to an animal... I've heard about chemical poisoning - people who are annoyed about cat colonies in their area or people getting tired about dogs urinating in front of their houses. I've never seen anything like this." Redding says that the incident "reminds me of all those thriller movies of serial killers who start by hurting animals."

This makes me soooo sick. People like this are real psychos

joshua · August 2006

if only dog owners displayed the same behavior . . . i might be tempted. this brings to mind a new topic - worst neighbors of all time.

especially ones that yell at their dogs to shut up, occasionally curse and actually are louder and more verbacious than the dogs themselves. . .

yavel · August 2006

I can top that...

The neighbors own six dogs, never bathe or walk them and curse and yell at them constantly.

I came home late one night to the sound of mewling from their trash can. One of the dogs had had puppies, and the neighbors had bundled the poor things in with the household garbage, leaving them there to suffocate. Of the thirteen dogs they threw out, only two survived.

stacey · August 2006

Yavel wrote: I can top that...

The neighbors own six dogs, never bathe or walk them and curse and yell at them constantly.

I came home late one night to the sound of mewling from their trash can. One of the dogs had had puppies, and the neighbors had bundled the poor things in with the household garbage, leaving them there to suffocate. Of the thirteen dogs they threw out, only two survived.

Please, please tell me you called Animal Control on them

yavel · August 2006

I did and they spent a night in jail. I didn't know this would happen, but the ASPCA officers showed up with a camera crew and the whole thing ended up on an episode of Animal Precinct. They also had to go to court, but I'm not sure what the outcome was. I wish they had taken the other dogs too, but they were at least spayed and neutered.

escap · August 2006

The next door neighbor of the house I grew up in collected strays (people and dogs), and at any given time had between 20 and 40 dogs in her house, and this went on for well over ten years. The city did jack. Talk about a bad neighbor!

medusa · August 2006

For several years in the '80s, there was a crack dealer who lived in the corner house 2 doors down from my parents. Plenty of people in the neighborhood had tried to get him to move out (called the police, offered him cash for the house, etc.). One night there was a ruckus and my parents heard noises in the front of the house and the back. In the front, a guy (not the owner) had stumbled out of the house, stabbed, and collapsed on someone's car. Meanwhile, in the back, the owner, also stabbed, had gone into his back yard, crossed into the immediate neighbors back yard, stumbled up to my parents' fence and then collapsed in front of them. Both guys lived and EMS ended up carrying the dealer/owner through my parents' house to get him to the ambulance--dripping crack-dealer blood all the way.

It still took a little while, but he did sell the house and the folks who live there now are very nice.

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