(just kidding)
Posted on 02/02/2011 1:32:48 PM PST by Red Badger
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — They’re calling it the parcel puppy. A Minneapolis woman is charged with animal cruelty after police say she tried to send a puppy through the mail.
The poodle-mixed pup is being held temporarily at the animal control office in Minneapolis but still belongs to the woman who allegedly tried to mail it — 39-year-old Stacey Champion.
“Clearly there wasn’t a whole lot of thought that went into this,” said Sgt. Angela Dodge with the Minneapolis Police Department.
Dodge said last Tuesday Champion took the puppy to the Loring Post Office. The puppy was in a box with a priority sticker on it.
“A puppy is a definite no-no,” said Pete Nowacki with the U.S. Postal Service.
Postal workers didn’t know right away about the puppy inside, until the box fell off the counter.
“Apparently the puppy must have moved at that time and the box had shaken and fallen. At that point, the clerk and supervisor could hear a sound like panting coming from inside the box,” recalled Nowacki.
“They could hear it in the box, they opened the box and discovered a live puppy on there with no food or water,” said Dodge.
Champion did want the puppy to get there quickly because she mailed him 2-day priority. Officials say she was mailing the puppy as a present for a relative.
“The notion of putting a puppy in a box, putting them on a plane with no food, no water, no place to do their business, it’s not going to work,” said Nowacki.
The puppy is doing fine. Champion has until Friday to make an appeal to animal control to get the puppy back. If animal controls says she can’t have the puppy back, it will go up for adoption.
Imagine being the poor niece or nephew that received the dead puppy in the mail.
Auntie Stacey is a little wacky.
This past Christmas, we received a package from the in-laws that had to be picked up at the post office. As you can imagine, the post office was quite busy.
When we got the package, I shook it, and exclaimed loudly, “A puppy”!
You should have seen the faces of the people in line.
Okay, I give up -
What is the proper container for mailing a puppy??
It was posted yesterday. Though you might enjoy the comments.
(just kidding)
A portable kennel, I suppose.......
LOL!!!!!..............
There was a time when I was proud to be associated with that state. With all the nonsense now occurring there, no mas, no mas.
You use animal transport companies. I assume they use portable kennels. From what I understand...they’re quite expensive.
Dead puppies aren’t much fun.
Obviously you are not Korean..........
They don’t come when you call,
Clearly a Democrat
I think I know this girl’s family. I saw her mother walking down the street with a couple puppies in her sweater.
When my daughter was at college I sent her a Valentine’s Day package with a stuffed critter that made a loud “boiing” sound when it bumped into anything, so every time the box was set down or moved, it activated. The staff at the campus post office were so intrigued they had her open it there, just so they could see what had been making all the racket.
anyone find her picture? I MUST see who this dumb woman is.
This woman should be put in a box and mailed somewhere Priority Mail.
Stupid cow.
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