CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y.-
A 55-year-old woman was arrested for cooking up a lethal batch of meatballs mixed with rat poison and feeding it to a neighbor’s dog because she didn’t like its barking.
Charmaine Twarozek was arrested Friday after an officer found a frying pan coated with remnants of ground beef and rat poison in her trash. She was charged with poisoning a dog and cruelty to animals, misdemeanors, police said.
Sue Anderson, the owner of the German shepherd mix, said she and Twarozek had been involved in an ongoing dispute over Roscoe’s barking.
Twarozek did not return calls seeking her comment.
Anderson said she discovered the meatballs Friday, when she and her husband noticed the dog was eating something by the back fence, near Twarozek’s property in Cheektowaga, 10 miles east of Buffalo.
“My husband brought Roscoe in, and he had a meatball in his mouth. He dropped it on the floor, and I could see there were little green pellets, cooked right into the meat,” Anderson said.
Roscoe was taken to an emergency animal clinic. He will be given vitamins for the next few weeks, Anderson said.
The Andersons said they believe their dog ate only one small piece of one meatball. “I think Roscoe sensed there was some thing wrong with it,” Anderson said.
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Information from The Buffalo News,
