BOULDER — A former University of Colorado student convicted of felony animal cruelty for taping a dog upside down to a refrigerator last year was sentenced to 30 days in jail and three years probation Friday.
Abby Toll, 21, sat motionless as Boulder County District Judge Maria Berkenkotter read the sentence. She could have faced up to 18 months in prison.
Toll was arrested in April 2009 after police received a call of a domestic dispute at a Boulder apartment building. Inside, they Boulder police found a shiba inu wrapped in packing tape and bound with hair ties stuck to the side of a refrigerator.
Toll admitted attaching her boyfriend’s dog — then named Rex – to the fridge, saying she did it as a way of getting back at him for paying more attention to the dog than to her, according to police.
Read the rest of this report, including what happened to Rex, at .
