Post by wittzo on Mar 29, 2005 23:09:12 GMT -6
Two pounds of Screaming Meat Rage!
It's coming right for us!
Gary Larson would have a field day, he ought to come out of retirement..
www.tampabaylive.com/stories/2005/03/050323dogshot.shtml
Woman gets 30 days in jail for Chihuahua's shotgun death
an Associated Press report 03/23/05
NAPLES - A southwest Florida woman was sentenced to 30 days in jail for killing her neighbor's Chihuahua with a shotgun, telling the dog's owner in court that she was scared when it attacked her.
Wanda Ziglar, 49, of Golden Gate, pleaded no contest Tuesday to one felony count of animal cruelty. Senior Judge Jack Schoonover agreed to withhold a formal finding of guilt of the charge.
Ziglar will be allowed to serve her jail time on weekend work detail. The judge also sentenced her to two years probation and six months house arrest.
Ziglar was arrested July 31 after admitting she shot and killed the dog, which belonged to her then-neighbor, Marisol Olegnichar. Ziglar told deputies the Chihuahua repeatedly wandered into her yard.
She said in court that she grabbed a shotgun and fired two warning shots into the air to try to scare off the dog.
"I was scared by the dog. It came out from behind my garbage can," said Ziglar.
The dog left after the warning shots, but soon returned, Ziglar told her former neighbor in court.
That's when the dog "tried to attack me. That's when I shot the dog," Ziglar said.
The dog's owner told Ziglar that she didn't believe her.
"There's no way a 2-pound dog was going to scare you," Olegnichar said.
davesdaily.com/outrss2.php?id=4268
4-1/2-pound Chihuahua terrorizing Indiana town
Associated Press
Posted March 28 2005, 8:29 AM EST
HOBART, Ind. -- While there's nothing special about U.S. Postal Service workers being terrorized by dogs, the size of one here is raising eyebrows.
Mail carriers said they were recently unable to deliver mail to homes along a section of Guyer Street in this northwestern Indiana city because of a 4.5-pound Chihuahua named Bobo.
``The little Chihuahua was 10-foot tall when he was on the street,'' said Florence Page of the Hobart Humane Society, which picked up the dog twice for running loose. ``It's kind of comical, you know, but after a while it's not any more.'' She said there were no reports of the dog actually biting anyone, however.
Police have nonetheless ticketed the dog's owner, Vicki Seber, twice in recent weeks for violating a city ordinance requiring pet owners to keep their animals restrained.
Hobart police officer Ron Schalk said he had no option but to cite Seber for allowing the dog to run loose.
``The biggest thing I was concerned with is there were a lot of residents that week who couldn't get their mail,'' he said. ``The little Chihuahua was running around being aggressive and trying to bite people's ankles.''
It's coming right for us!
Gary Larson would have a field day, he ought to come out of retirement..
www.tampabaylive.com/stories/2005/03/050323dogshot.shtml
Woman gets 30 days in jail for Chihuahua's shotgun death
an Associated Press report 03/23/05
NAPLES - A southwest Florida woman was sentenced to 30 days in jail for killing her neighbor's Chihuahua with a shotgun, telling the dog's owner in court that she was scared when it attacked her.
Wanda Ziglar, 49, of Golden Gate, pleaded no contest Tuesday to one felony count of animal cruelty. Senior Judge Jack Schoonover agreed to withhold a formal finding of guilt of the charge.
Ziglar will be allowed to serve her jail time on weekend work detail. The judge also sentenced her to two years probation and six months house arrest.
Ziglar was arrested July 31 after admitting she shot and killed the dog, which belonged to her then-neighbor, Marisol Olegnichar. Ziglar told deputies the Chihuahua repeatedly wandered into her yard.
She said in court that she grabbed a shotgun and fired two warning shots into the air to try to scare off the dog.
"I was scared by the dog. It came out from behind my garbage can," said Ziglar.
The dog left after the warning shots, but soon returned, Ziglar told her former neighbor in court.
That's when the dog "tried to attack me. That's when I shot the dog," Ziglar said.
The dog's owner told Ziglar that she didn't believe her.
"There's no way a 2-pound dog was going to scare you," Olegnichar said.
davesdaily.com/outrss2.php?id=4268
4-1/2-pound Chihuahua terrorizing Indiana town
Associated Press
Posted March 28 2005, 8:29 AM EST
HOBART, Ind. -- While there's nothing special about U.S. Postal Service workers being terrorized by dogs, the size of one here is raising eyebrows.
Mail carriers said they were recently unable to deliver mail to homes along a section of Guyer Street in this northwestern Indiana city because of a 4.5-pound Chihuahua named Bobo.
``The little Chihuahua was 10-foot tall when he was on the street,'' said Florence Page of the Hobart Humane Society, which picked up the dog twice for running loose. ``It's kind of comical, you know, but after a while it's not any more.'' She said there were no reports of the dog actually biting anyone, however.
Police have nonetheless ticketed the dog's owner, Vicki Seber, twice in recent weeks for violating a city ordinance requiring pet owners to keep their animals restrained.
Hobart police officer Ron Schalk said he had no option but to cite Seber for allowing the dog to run loose.
``The biggest thing I was concerned with is there were a lot of residents that week who couldn't get their mail,'' he said. ``The little Chihuahua was running around being aggressive and trying to bite people's ankles.''
