Cocoa the Weiner Dog Deemed Vicious; Ankeny Officials Deny Request for Leniency
In the second vicious animal case the Ankeny City Council has heard this month, members couldn't look past the aggression of five-year-old Cocoa, a miniature Dachshund who bit two girls. Unlike Max, a shih tzu who earned a second chance recently, Cocoa wa
Unlike the case of Max the shih tzu, another Ankeny dog isn’t getting a second chance from the city. At a special meeting Monday night, Ankeny City Council members unanimously decided to uphold a vicious animal order issued to Ankeny resident Kimberly Abbey after her five-year-old miniature dachshund, Cocoa, bit two girls on separate occasions. “I’ll take any kind of financial responsibility and the treatment. I will be responsible for that – that’s fine,” Abbey told council members prior to the decision. “But I don’t think my dog is vicious.” Abbey appeared before the council to appeal the vicious animal order issued to her on April 26 by the city. The order came after separate incidents involving Cocoa occurred in March and April. On …
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Jacquie Holm-Smith
12:54 am on Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Good stuff, Dana! Thanks for posting ;) more ›