http://www.lohud.com/arti...02/4060375

YONKERS — A prejudiced pooch that reportedly disliked minorities was slashed last night by a black man who had grown tired of the dog's incessant barking at him, police said.

The German Shepherd lost an eye, and the alleged slasher — who worked for an oil delivery business where the dog stood guard — was arrested on a felony aggravated cruelty charge.
Andrew Owens, 58, was arraigned this morning in City Court after spending the night in jail.
“The dog reacts to black people, Hispanics, anyone who is not white,” owner Paul Tocco said. “She always barked at him. He (Owens) was well aware the dog didn’t like him, and he knew to stay away from her.”

SPCA: Black man slashed dog that disliked minorities
A detective for the SPCA of Westchester said the slashing was unprovoked. It took place around 7 p.m., as the dog, a four-year-old named Jenna, was leashed outside Valley Oil at 707 Nepperhan Ave.
Owens, who worked there as a handyman, had threatened to kill the dog in the past and told authorities it had bitten him about a year ago.
Last night, he “egged on” the barking dog and charged at her, Detective Ken Ross III said. He allegedly then pulled out a nine-inch folding knife.

“He taunted her with his arm, raised his arm with a knife and slashed the dog across the face,” he said. “He cut the dog over the right eye, all the way down to the eye socket bone.”


Tocco, whose family runs the business, said he heard the dog’s barking, went outside and saw Owens strike the dog.
“The dog let out a loud yelp, and when I ran there, she turned her head toward me and I seen the whole right side of her head bleeding,” Tocco said.
Rather than going after Owens, Tocco placed Jenna in a work van and drove her to a Greenburgh animal hospital. A veterinarian performed emergency surgery, but the eye couldn’t be saved, Ross said. Today, the dog was transferred to an animal hospital in Scarsdale.
“The dog is supposedly in good spirits and is okay now,” Ross said. “But it did lose the eye.”
The detective said he’s uncertain why Owens allegedly acted out on this occassion.
“He never liked the dog,” Ross said. “The dog did not bite him yesterday. It appears everything was done out of anger. He might have just snapped.”
Owens, who lives nearby, was arrested at his apartment at 10:20 p.m.
Tocco said he will never allow Owens to work there again. “We don’t want him around here anymore,” he said.


WOW!! Even the owner admits the damn dog is racist

Some animals are like that... Some like women and hate men and vice versa...

I thought this was about a Republican.

Graycap23 said:

Damn! That guy has issues!

One of the German Shephard guard dogs where i work doesn't like
females and always react angrily when one passes by.

SHOCKADELICA1 said:

....and why is that?

I can't lie....my dog did not like children, big men, and Asian people.

Children because I foolishly had her outside once and some kids teased her (she did, however, like my sister's kids, and any kids I introduced her to)

Big men because I had a boyfriend pick her up once and play "airplane", doofus. Once again, if I introduced her, after a while she was fine.

Asians...I really have no clue, maybe because she never saw one before, but she refused to let this Asian girl pet her, after I itroduced her and everything.

That said....I made sure to never leaver her alone with those three types.

I've met many many people who said there dogs didn't like Black epople. The first time, the dog was fine with me (go figure), another time, the dog apparently didn't like white people either (go figure), most of the time the dog really just liked their owner. Sometimes, the dog didn't even like the owner (couldn't blame them)..

my dog doesn't like punks. i mean the ones with the high mohawk hair.

you hardly ever see them around here, but he's seen three or four in
the 9 years he's old and somehow they just rub him the wrong way.

he'll get all worked up and start barking like mad and even raises
his own neck hair, as if in an attempt to out-punk them.

it's quite funny.