BOULDER — Police found an 8-month-old puppy — its feet, snout and tail bound in clear packing tape, a plastic bag and elastic hair ties — adhered to the side of a refrigerator in a Boulder home Tuesday morning, the apparent victim of a domestic dispute between its owner and his girlfriend.
Abby Toll, 20, was arrested on suspicion of felony animal cruelty after telling police she taped up the puppy, a shiba inu named Rex, and stuck him to the fridge because she was angry at her boyfriend for not getting rid of his pet after it had bitten her.
“There’s a dog taped to the fridge,” she told an officer who responded to a report of a domestic incident in the 2900 block of East Aurora Avenue around 5 a.m.. “I know this looks bad. We were going to get rid of him anyway. We usually don’t do this.”
The dog, which police said in a report appeared to be in severe pain after being released from its “tomb of tape,” was placed with the Boulder Valley Humane Society for safekeeping.
Toll faces felony charges of animal cruelty and domestic assault, plus misdemeanor charges of criminal tampering and third-degree assault. She was being held Tuesday night at the Boulder County Jail in lieu of a $12,500 bond.
She allegedly slapped her boyfriend, 21-year-old Bryan Beck, in the face and threw numerous objects at him after taping the dog to the fridge.
Beck was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor false imprisonment and obstructing the use of Toll’s cell phone.
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