Post by maryellen on Dec 1, 2008 11:47:29 GMT -5
Please do NOT go to this trainer in NJ...
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Dog trainer from Chester Twp. wanted, accused of beating pet
A Chester Township dog trainer who says he allows vicious dogs to bite him and then uses touch to communicate with the animals is wanted for failing to appear on summonses alleging he caused internal injuries to a shih tzu by hitting it with a PVC pipe during a training session last year, an SPCA official said Friday.
After Jeffrey Loy's first $1,000 training session with the dog at its owners' home in Clark, the shih tzu was urinating blood, said Matt Stanton, a spokesman for the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which investigated and filed charges in the case.
The dog, named Moby, was taken to a veterinary hospital where it was diagnosed with a bruised liver and bladder, a broken rib and a ruptured blood vessel in its eyes, Stanton said.
He said the 12 summonses were signed on Oct. 29 by Cpl. Al Peterson, an investigator who reopened the year-old case when the SPCA was called for a separate case this September in which investigators seized a cattle prod and slingshot that allegedly belonged to Loy from a Montclair home.
Loy also reportedly had a cattle prod on hand during the Nov. 24, 2007, training session in Clark.
Loy prefers working with animals in their home environments, according to a Web site for his practice, the Center for Animal Behavioral Research.
Stanton said the SPCA suspended work on the 2007 case when Moby's owners stopped cooperating with SPCA investigators, allegedly because Loy told them he would have the shih tzu removed for viciousness if they did not continue with his program.
Stanton said the pet reportedly no longer bit people after the 2007 training session. He attributed that to the dog's injuries.
"The dog can't breathe because he has a broken rib," Stanton said.
Loy did not return a message left on his office voicemail Friday afternoon.
Loy failed to appear in Clark Municipal Court on Nov. 18, and Judge Antonio Inacio issued a $2,500 warrant for his arrest, Stanton said.
According to Loy's Web site, he founded the Center for Animal Behavioral Research in 1975. Prior to establishing the business, he was an instructor, trainer and researcher at the Seeing Eye in Morristown. His formal education is in mathematics and physics.
In a May Daily Record story about his work, Loy said he takes on cases that other trainers have already given up on and that he trains dogs that are likely to be euthanized if they are not rehabilitated.
"I've been severely bitten -- that means to the bone, hard clamping bites -- over 2,000 times," he is quoted in the story.
"I've been ripped open, I've been bitten in almost every body part," he said, noting that he sustains the bites to determine the best way to treat the dogs, and does this because he wants to prevent the dogs from being euthanized.
People who brought their dogs to Loy said his methods were successful and credited him with them being able to keep their pets. Published reports about his work do not describe him as beating animals. He says in the stories that he relies on the "phenomenon of touch."
Stanton said it is not normal for trainers to let dogs bite them and that beating the dog with a pipe and his hands, as alleged, is animal cruelty under New Jersey law.
"Within the state law, it constitutes animal cruelty," he said. "No ifs, ands or buts about that."
Jake Remaly can be reached at (973) 428-6621 or jremaly1@gannett.com.
www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200811290405/COMMUNITIES11/811290326
Dog trainer from Chester Twp. wanted, accused of beating pet
A Chester Township dog trainer who says he allows vicious dogs to bite him and then uses touch to communicate with the animals is wanted for failing to appear on summonses alleging he caused internal injuries to a shih tzu by hitting it with a PVC pipe during a training session last year, an SPCA official said Friday.
After Jeffrey Loy's first $1,000 training session with the dog at its owners' home in Clark, the shih tzu was urinating blood, said Matt Stanton, a spokesman for the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which investigated and filed charges in the case.
The dog, named Moby, was taken to a veterinary hospital where it was diagnosed with a bruised liver and bladder, a broken rib and a ruptured blood vessel in its eyes, Stanton said.
He said the 12 summonses were signed on Oct. 29 by Cpl. Al Peterson, an investigator who reopened the year-old case when the SPCA was called for a separate case this September in which investigators seized a cattle prod and slingshot that allegedly belonged to Loy from a Montclair home.
Loy also reportedly had a cattle prod on hand during the Nov. 24, 2007, training session in Clark.
Loy prefers working with animals in their home environments, according to a Web site for his practice, the Center for Animal Behavioral Research.
Stanton said the SPCA suspended work on the 2007 case when Moby's owners stopped cooperating with SPCA investigators, allegedly because Loy told them he would have the shih tzu removed for viciousness if they did not continue with his program.
Stanton said the pet reportedly no longer bit people after the 2007 training session. He attributed that to the dog's injuries.
"The dog can't breathe because he has a broken rib," Stanton said.
Loy did not return a message left on his office voicemail Friday afternoon.
Loy failed to appear in Clark Municipal Court on Nov. 18, and Judge Antonio Inacio issued a $2,500 warrant for his arrest, Stanton said.
According to Loy's Web site, he founded the Center for Animal Behavioral Research in 1975. Prior to establishing the business, he was an instructor, trainer and researcher at the Seeing Eye in Morristown. His formal education is in mathematics and physics.
In a May Daily Record story about his work, Loy said he takes on cases that other trainers have already given up on and that he trains dogs that are likely to be euthanized if they are not rehabilitated.
"I've been severely bitten -- that means to the bone, hard clamping bites -- over 2,000 times," he is quoted in the story.
"I've been ripped open, I've been bitten in almost every body part," he said, noting that he sustains the bites to determine the best way to treat the dogs, and does this because he wants to prevent the dogs from being euthanized.
People who brought their dogs to Loy said his methods were successful and credited him with them being able to keep their pets. Published reports about his work do not describe him as beating animals. He says in the stories that he relies on the "phenomenon of touch."
Stanton said it is not normal for trainers to let dogs bite them and that beating the dog with a pipe and his hands, as alleged, is animal cruelty under New Jersey law.
"Within the state law, it constitutes animal cruelty," he said. "No ifs, ands or buts about that."
Jake Remaly can be reached at (973) 428-6621 or jremaly1@gannett.com.
I look forward to learning much here