Town of Tonawanda police have arrested a 24-year-old man and accused him of kicking his girlfriend's 10-month-old puppy down a flight of stairs and then trying to hide the dog's body in the trunk of his car.
Officers charged Marc E. Dash, of DeKalb Street, Tonawanda, with aggravated cruelty to animals, a felony, following the death of the Shih Tzu puppy named Grace. The incident apparently occurred late Sunday morning.
Dash admitted to kicking the dog down the stairs, police reports quoted him as saying, because “it was eyeballing me, you know, looking at me like it didn’t like me.”
Dash told police he attempted to perform CPR on the dog, but when that was unsuccessful, he stuffed the puppy into a duffel bag and hid it in the trunk of his car.
When his girlfriend returned home to her Kenview Avenue apartment, Dash told her the dog had run away. As the girlfriend searched the neighborhood for the dog, a neighbor told her that Dash had been acting suspiciously, removing a duffel bag from his car and then returning to put the duffel in his truck.
The dog’s owner then discovered the puppy in the trunk of her boyfriend’s car. She took the dog into her apartment, but the dog was dead.
“I have a soft spot for animals,” Town of Tonawanda Lt. Nicholas A. Bado said. “They depend on us to care for them, and when someone violates that trust, it’s disturbing, and you wonder about their state of mind.”
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