Post by michele5611 on Oct 18, 2011 15:27:33 GMT -5
www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/10/18/2011-10-18_blue_dog_condemned_to_death_for_biting_toddler_in_oregon_stolen_from_kennel_in_m.html
A death row dog in Oregon was sprung from a kennel in a brazen jailbreak.
Blue the dog - who was to be euthanized for biting a toddler last year - was busted out when someone smashed a window at his pooch prison and grabbed him, cops said.
The escaped happened either late Sunday or early Monday, according to managers at the Albany Pet Hotel.
"To my knowledge this is the first time a dog's been stolen from that facility," Albany police Lt. Casey Dorland told local station KVAL.
Nothing else was stolen. Police were treating the case as a burglary.
Blue had been in a cage at the facility since late May while his owner fought the city council over the death sentence.
The Blue Lacey hound bit a little boy who stuck his face in the dog's food bowl while he was eating in Sept. 2010. It was the third time he had attacked someone, according to the Albany Democrat-Herald.
City officials, citing a municipal code regarding dangerous dogs, called Blue a menace and marked him for death.
Hundreds of locals had backed Blue's owner, Richard Raymond, with a petition to the city council demanding a change to the policy.
Signs saying "Don't Murder Blue" were posted in the windows of businesses around town.
City Councilor Dick Olsen, who had called for Blue's release, said of the dognappers: "Bless their hearts."
"I hope [they are] crossing the Nevada-Arizona line as we speak," he told the Democrat-Herald.
A police spokesman told the newspaper that investigators had alerted harbor police in the Portland metro area to keep an eye out for anyone trying to fly or sail away with a dog.
Raymond's lawyer told the Democrat-Herald that he knew the dog was missing, but didn't comment further.
A death row dog in Oregon was sprung from a kennel in a brazen jailbreak.
Blue the dog - who was to be euthanized for biting a toddler last year - was busted out when someone smashed a window at his pooch prison and grabbed him, cops said.
The escaped happened either late Sunday or early Monday, according to managers at the Albany Pet Hotel.
"To my knowledge this is the first time a dog's been stolen from that facility," Albany police Lt. Casey Dorland told local station KVAL.
Nothing else was stolen. Police were treating the case as a burglary.
Blue had been in a cage at the facility since late May while his owner fought the city council over the death sentence.
The Blue Lacey hound bit a little boy who stuck his face in the dog's food bowl while he was eating in Sept. 2010. It was the third time he had attacked someone, according to the Albany Democrat-Herald.
City officials, citing a municipal code regarding dangerous dogs, called Blue a menace and marked him for death.
Hundreds of locals had backed Blue's owner, Richard Raymond, with a petition to the city council demanding a change to the policy.
Signs saying "Don't Murder Blue" were posted in the windows of businesses around town.
City Councilor Dick Olsen, who had called for Blue's release, said of the dognappers: "Bless their hearts."
"I hope [they are] crossing the Nevada-Arizona line as we speak," he told the Democrat-Herald.
A police spokesman told the newspaper that investigators had alerted harbor police in the Portland metro area to keep an eye out for anyone trying to fly or sail away with a dog.
Raymond's lawyer told the Democrat-Herald that he knew the dog was missing, but didn't comment further.
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