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Woman Tries To Mail Puppy In Box

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — They’re calling it the parcel puppy. A Minneapolis woman is charged with animal cruelty after police say she tried to send a puppy through the mail.

The poodle-mixed pup is being held temporarily at the animal control office in Minneapolis but still belongs to the woman who allegedly tried to mail it — 39-year-old Stacey Champion.

“Clearly there wasn’t a whole lot of thought that went into this,” said Sgt. Angela Dodge with the Minneapolis Police Department.

Dodge said last Tuesday Champion took the puppy to the Loring Post Office. The puppy was in a box with a priority sticker on it.

“A puppy is a definite no-no,” said Pete Nowacki with the U.S. Postal Service.

Postal workers didn’t know right away about the puppy inside, until the box fell off the counter.

“Apparently the puppy must have moved at that time and the box had shaken and fallen. At that point, the clerk and supervisor could hear a sound like panting coming from inside the box,” recalled Nowacki.

“They could hear it in the box, they opened the box and discovered a live puppy on there with no food or water,” said Dodge.

Champion did want the puppy to get there quickly because she mailed him 2-day priority. Officials say she was mailing the puppy as a present for a relative.

“The notion of putting a puppy in a box, putting them on a plane with no food, no water, no place to do their business, it’s not going to work,” said Nowacki.

The puppy is doing fine. Champion has until Friday to make an appeal to animal control to get the puppy back. If animal controls says she can’t have the puppy back, it will go up for adoption.

Sonya Goins, Producer


http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/02/01/woman-tries-to-mail-puppy-in-box/
 
Wow. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for my puppy to arrive on a PLANE. I was so worried about the stress she was probably experiencing and how terrified she must have been - and that was when people KNEW the little crate she was in had a live animal in it. I can't imagine how that box was treated before the employees knew there was a dog inside.
 
Woman charged in puppy-mailing attempt
The box was sealed with no air holes

Updated: Tuesday, 08 Feb 2011, 7:56 AM EST
Published : Tuesday, 08 Feb 2011, 7:55 AM EST

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Minneapolis woman has been charged with animal cruelty after postal workers say she tried to mail a puppy to Atlanta in a sealed box with no air holes.

Postal Service spokesman Pete Nowacki says employees became suspicious when the box suddenly fell off the counter after the woman left the post office Jan. 25. Postal inspectors opened the priority mail parcel and found a 4-month-old poodle mix, panting hard, inside.

Police Sgt. William Palmer says without the postal workers' intervention, the puppy would certainly have died in the airplane's unheated and non-pressurized cargo hold. It also had no food or water.

The Star Tribune says 39-year-old Stacey Champion has been charged with animal cruelty. The dog was taken to the city's animal control facility.


http://www.wivb.com/dpps/news/offbe...ged-in-puppy-mailing-attempt-ob11-jgr_3714313
 
I wonder if she would try to sue the postal workers for invasion of privacy, or breaking a federal law... opening someones mail... This day and age, it would not surprise me if she did, and some idiot lawyer took up the case.
 
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I wonder if she would try to sue the postal workers for invasion of privacy, or breaking a federal law... opening someones mail... This day and age, it would not surprise me if she did, and some idiot lawyer took up the case.
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What's even worse is that if she does sue them, she most likely will win. It happens way too often anymore! I've never had a puppy sent to me, but when I am waiting for my snakes to arrive I think of all kinds of terrible scenarios happening in-flight.

How on earth could any adult be so stupid as to think a living creature is going to survive in those kind of conditions (sealed box)? Makes you wonder how she takes care of her pets in her home & possibly children with that thought process. :angry:
 
To open the package, a federal postal inspector must give the okay on it and must be for good reason. They had good reason to believe there was no toy robot in the box and from the sound could tell it was a dog, thus something that legally cannot be shipped by USPS. If they let it go anyways, they would have been in far more trouble. This woman doesn't have a leg to stand on.

She lied about the contents of the box. She saw the postal worker "throwing" the box around, so she told them a "toy robot" was in there so they would handle it better. The air holes she did punch in there were covered with tape. She later said at the hearing, she left "two water bottles" in the box and also that the holes she made were not covered when she left the box, indicating the postal workers covered the box with tape and also took out the water bottles. Even if there were water bottles, I don't see how the dog could adequately drink from them. If they were the small animal style water bottles, and likely that is what she is saying was in there, they would have been rolling around, not attached to the wall of the box and thus, hard to impossible to drink from. I don't think there were ANY water bottles in there and she is just a lying sick bitch.

She also said in court that she sends a gift to her son every year. And her son keeps asking her where is his gift...I dunno, but as a mom, I'd BE there for his birthday, come hell or high water. I would find a way to BE with my child. I'm guessing dad or grandparents have custody and judging by how she sent this puppy, that's a good thing. Also when she said in court she wanted the puppy back, she said "I want to send him his puppy". She hasn't learned a DAMN thing. She also blames the post office for not posting an idiot sign that says, "You cannot ship dogs." Apparently she expects the post office to post a sign of everything they CAN'T ship. And says the USPS advertises they ship and she expected them to ship the puppy. She is a class act moron.
 
Nearly mailed puppy up for adoption
Puppy has won the hearts of admirers worldwide

Updated: Wednesday, 16 Feb 2011, 8:04 AM EST
Published : Wednesday, 16 Feb 2011, 8:04 AM EST

* TARA BANNOW,Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A puppy that escaped a possibly deadly trip through the mail and won the hearts of admirers worldwide will be available for adoption this week.

The city of Minneapolis says a drawing to adopt Guess, a 5-month-old schnauzer-poodle mix, will be held Friday. People who are interested have to be at the Minneapolis Animal Care and Control shelter, and animal control manager Dan Niziolek says he's expecting a line.

Guess was saved from a trip through the mail to Georgia that officials say likely would have killed it when postal workers opened the package.

Shelter official Jeanette Wiedemeier Bower said hundreds of people from across the U.S. and the world have asked to adopt Guess. She says the agency hopes the attention will encourage people to adopt other animals.


http://www.wivb.com/dpps/news/offbe...es-up-for-adoption-this-week-ob11-jgr_3720287
 
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