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Man Sentenced For Starving His Dog
Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) ^ | June 19, 2002

Posted on 06/19/2002 5:06:29 PM PDT by Shermy

A Hannibal town justice Monday night sentenced a man to what one investigator says is among the toughest penalties faced by an Oswego County defendant in an animal cruelty case.

Darcy Noble, 33, of [ snip ] Road, Woodland Trailer Park, received three years' probation and was ordered to pay $675.15 in restitution. Justice Luther Dennison also ordered Noble not to own any animals for the next five years.

Noble admitted last month in court that he starved his dog earlier this year. The dog, a 3- or 4-year-old mixed breed, never recovered from the malnutrition so doctors euthanized it, said Officer Sheldon Furlong, an Oswego County Welfare Animal Cruelty investigator.

"The judge made a clear message that this will not be tolerated," Furlong said. "It was very clear the district attorney's office and the judge are fully enforcing the Agriculture and Markets Law against people who abuse and neglect animals that result in unnecessary pain, torture and death."

Oswego County sheriff's deputies arrested Noble and Mabelene E. Gigon, 31, in February after finding a dead German shepherd and two starving mixed breeds outside their mobile home, police reports said. The mixed breeds were euthanized after doctors said the dogs were traumatized and not recovering, Furlong said.

Sheriff's Deputy Daniel J. Ferazzoli, Furlong and a town animal control officer went to the home after someone reported the incident Feb. 3.

"We found one of the dogs frozen into the ground with a collar and chain still on it. It was chained to a tree and laying next to the dog dish, which was filled with leaves," Furlong said. "The dog had been starved to death. The other two were in pretty bad shape."

A veterinarian's report showed the dog weighed 20 pounds at death, or one-third of what it should have weighed, Furlong said. The report also said the 7-year-old German shepherd had not eaten in weeks or maybe months. It died of malnutrition and exposure to cold weather, Furlong said of the report.

Noble and Gigon were charged Feb. 9 with one count of failure to provide adequate sustenance to an animal, a misdemeanor in the Agriculture and Markets Law. That was for each of the mixed breeds. Gigon also was charged with a misdemeanor count of cruelty to an animal resulting in the death of the German shepherd by starving it.

Noble and Gigon pleaded guilty to the charges last month in Hannibal Town Court, Furlong said.

Gigon's case was adjourned until July 2 because her presentence report was not complete, Furlong said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: New York
KEYWORDS: dog; dogs
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To: dighton
because you see nothing particularly wrong with starving a dog to death.

I never said I don't find anything wrong with it. I don't find it a legally punishable offense.

Morally wrong does NOT necessarily = legally wrong.

101 posted on 06/19/2002 6:28:24 PM PDT by southern rock
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To: southern rock
This is obvious evidence of the wussification of the avarage American today. Can you imagine a rugged frontiersman, 150 years ago, cuddling his dog to sleep at night, going "coochie, coochie coo"?

Those frontiersmen shot people who messed with their animals. Many on this thread would do the same thing.

You and mameslukesabre seem to have a need to appear macho; instead you come off as inbred hillbillies.

102 posted on 06/19/2002 6:28:57 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: southern rock
Okay, let me rephrase this. Why shouldn't a tame and domesticated dog fall under the same parameters for unjust cruelty as does a child? Why should it be okay to abuse them just to abuse them?
103 posted on 06/19/2002 6:30:32 PM PDT by riley1992
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To: sinkspur
Those frontiersmen shot people who messed with their animals. Many on this thread would do the same thing.

Yes! Because those animals were their property, their LIVELYHOOD. You don't actually think it was because of some emotional attachment, do you?

104 posted on 06/19/2002 6:30:46 PM PDT by southern rock
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To: tomakaze
Remember those kids who were dragging Dutchess around by a choke collar when you first found her? They grew up to be people who chained their dogs up & starved them to death.
105 posted on 06/19/2002 6:32:14 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: sinkspur
inbred hillbillies that live in a trailer park? Is that what you meant?

Those old frontiersmen shot people that messed with their animals just as they would shoot someone that messed with any of their property. WHat's your point?
106 posted on 06/19/2002 6:33:04 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: southern rock
Your "wussification of America" also seems to speak of technology. We no longer need to live off the land or have our own farms or hunt our own meat. The computer that your butt is parked at right now is part of that wussification. So if you are so opposed to it, why don't you go live in a hut in the woods and stop using modern conveniences?
107 posted on 06/19/2002 6:33:09 PM PDT by Bella_Bru
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To: riley1992
Why shouldn't a tame and domesticated dog fall under the same parameters for unjust cruelty as does a child?

Because it is not a human child.

Why should it be okay to abuse them just to abuse them?

It's not O.K., but it shouldn't be illegal. It requires a cold objectivity to understand this. The fact that you don't actually makes you a decent person. I just wouldn't want you being a judge.

108 posted on 06/19/2002 6:34:23 PM PDT by southern rock
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS; riley1992
Reminds me of the old saw; "it bodes ill for the State when a dog lays dying at it's masters gate."
A dog starv’d at his master’s gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.

-- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence.


109 posted on 06/19/2002 6:37:13 PM PDT by dighton
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To: southern rock
No, it is not a human child but that doesn't make abusing it any more accetable legally nor should it.

And, you needn't worry, I don't want to be a judge. I hate attorneys and would never make it through my first day of law school.

110 posted on 06/19/2002 6:38:15 PM PDT by riley1992
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To: Bella_Bru
The computer that your butt is parked at right now is part of that wussification.

Agreed. I have cable , too. I'm just as sucky as everyone else. But I'm not violating anyone's property rights by going online or watching T.V

111 posted on 06/19/2002 6:39:08 PM PDT by southern rock
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To: riley1992
WHat??

You think abusing a dog is equal to abusing a child?
112 posted on 06/19/2002 6:39:37 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: dighton
Very good. Thanks. A poetry Buff I see.
113 posted on 06/19/2002 6:39:43 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: southern rock; mamelukesabre
You don't actually think it was because of some emotional attachment, do you?

Yes I do. How do you know they didn't have emotional attachments to their animals?

Or do you think mankind has always been as heartless towards animals as you two?

114 posted on 06/19/2002 6:40:46 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: mamelukesabre
First, why don't you address my last post to you. And second, no, I do not put it on equal par with that, I do believe there should be ramifications, though, aside from crying into your hankie for the poor, mixed up and sad man who did it.
115 posted on 06/19/2002 6:44:19 PM PDT by riley1992
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To: southern rock
It's not O.K., but it shouldn't be illegal. It requires a cold objectivity to understand this.

It requires a neanderthal, adolescent, lets-giggle-while-we-set-the-dog-on-fire mentality to not understand that cruelty to a sentient being is criminal.

Cruelty to an animal is now, in Texas, a felony.

That makes you somebody's girlfriend in a Texas hoosegow.

116 posted on 06/19/2002 6:46:04 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: riley1992
address your last post? The one about you not wanting to be a judge or lawyer? What should I say about that?
117 posted on 06/19/2002 6:52:49 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: sinkspur
You have no clue about life in a rural area, do you?
118 posted on 06/19/2002 6:54:26 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: southern rock
Emotional attachment to animals didn't begin with Disney, as you claim.

Read the Odyssey sometime.

When intelligent creatures work for man, lines of communication -- even affection -- develop. That is as true today as it was for Odysseus and Argos

"Thus they spake one to the other. And lo, a hound raised up his head and pricked his ears, even where he lay, Argos, the hound of Odysseus, of the hardy heart, which of old himself had bred, but had got no joy of him, for ere that, he went to sacred Ilios. Now in time past the young men used to lead the hound against wild goats and deer and hares; but as then, despised he lay (his master being afar) in the deep dung of mules and kine, whereof an ample bed was spread before the doors, till the thralls of Odysseus should carry it away to dung therewith his wide demesne. There lay the dog Argos, full of vermin. Yet even now when he was aware of Odysseus standing by, he wagged his tail and dropped both his ears, but nearer to his master he had not now the strength to draw. But Odysseus looked aside and wiped away a tear."

119 posted on 06/19/2002 6:58:13 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother
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To: mamelukesabre
You have no clue about life in a rural area, do you?

Do rural people regularly starve their dogs?

120 posted on 06/19/2002 7:09:59 PM PDT by sinkspur
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