To all out our newcomers, and loyal friends and supporters, We like to thank you for your continued support in our efforts to save and rehabilitate Luca and visiting his page. We would like to share a brief history of the situation, and our goals for an outcome for all the new visitors to the page. Luca is being represented by The Lexus Project, Legal Defense for Dogs . In February, Luca was let out on a cable to do his business. He saw the jogger before his owner did and ran to his cable length. The cable broke and he chased the jogger into the road. Luca was barking, the jogger was screaming and the owner was calling his name as she ran to them...but the bite had already happened. This was the second time this had happened. So yes, the owners are to blame for putting him in that situation and not getting him the training he needed for his prey drive to chase and poor impulse control, not being able to fence their rental property, and are responsible for the jogger being bit. They have owned up to that since the beginning. But this page and our fight is to keep him alive from the disposal order that was put on him. It has been nine, yes nine.....long....months since he has been at the pound. Caged for 20+ hours a day sometimes because of the limited schedule of the ACOs, in an indoor kennel with a cold concrete floor and little exercise. At the beginning the owners were allowed to see him, but that ended four months ago because of liability reasons even after a waiver of liability was signed with the town lawyers. We want to thank WFSB Hartford for running Luca’s story tonight and will provide a link to the video when available. We thought the story was treated fairly with the jogger’s view being represented as well. We would, however, like to re-emphasize the key issue for Luca’s team for the many who will now seek out this page – due process by the state of Connecticut. The jogger made it clear tonight in her statement that she simply wants to be safe in her town and does not specify a vendetta against Luca. She does not want Luca to be returned to Plainville, nor does she want Luca returned to his owners. Luca has been impounded since February 2014 – not because he is waiting for his court date to arrive, but because he is waiting to be GIVEN a court date. For the first few months, he was comforted by his family being allowed to visit, but now he is isolated from them as well. He sits alone at the cold pound with rare human contact. He must hold his bladder sometimes for 21 hours and has suffered infections and reflux from not eating consistently. He is showing signs of kennel stress as well after 9 months in a very small pound. We simply want humane treatment of Luca while his fate is being decided. And languishing in a pound with no court date in sight is cruel and inhumane. wfsb/story/27328004/plainville-dogs-life-hangs-in-the-balance-after-biting-runner?autostart=true youcaring/nonprofits/save-luca/152839
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:29:01 +0000
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