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An Ohio man accused of zipping six bulldog-mix puppies into a suitcase and leaving it next to a trash bin might have gotten away with it if he had remembered to remove the luggage tag bearing his contact information, authorities said Wednesday.
A Toledo Area Humane Society officer filed two misdemeanor charges of abandoning animals against Howard Davis, 53, of Toledo, this week, according to court records. Davis was not arrested, and he could not be found for comment Wednesday.
"It's unfortunate he chose to abandon the dogs," said John Dinon, the Humane Society's executive director. "If he had just called us and said he couldn't care for them, we would have taken them and he wouldn't have been charged with a crime."
Passers-by found the suitcase containing the three female and three male puppies outside a business on April 4, authorities said. The pups were about 4 weeks old.
The mother matches the description of a dog licensed to Davis and was identified as his dog by people who also said he had been trying to sell the puppies, Dinon said.
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)get the red out
(13,460 posts)The man is totally worthless to society.
I am so glad these pups and their Mom are save and well though. What an idiot this monster is in so many ways, he could have dropped the litter off at the Humane Society, my own dog was from a litter of eight pups about 5 weeks old that were dropped of at the shelter. But instead he abandons the precious little babies to die, in a suitcase with his luggage tag. I'm very happy he is not as smart as your average dog, now at least he will get the consequential slap on the wrist deviants like him get for their horrific animal abuses.
Those puppies are just so cute, how does someone have so little inside them that they could abandon them to die? The man is completely useless and a waste of oxygen.
Lionessa
(3,894 posts)when I went in to find out how much a male neuter would cost, it was between $225 and $250 at the Humane Societey of the last state I was in, so I can't even imagine what a female spay must cost.
I actually feel a tad sorry for the fellow. He apparently tried to leave it where it could be found easily, tried to sell or give away the puppies. If the humane society is charging to take them, and he's not able to provide for them, what should he have done?
He didn't leave them in the trash nor in something that wouldn't be checked, a suitcase next to a public trash can? Someone is going to open that before the trash man leaves with it.
Tell me what alternatives do poorer people have these days but to painfully abandon things they never thought they would, like puppies.