News Release

March 7, 2007

Contact: Steve Sprowl
Field Services Division
Phone: (603) 772-2921 ext. 111

Stratham, NH
For Immediate Release

Dog Abandoned Outside in Freezing Cold

Stratham, NH - On Wednesday morning, March 7, 2007, a call was received by Cruelty Investigator Steve Sprowl for New Hampshire SPCA. The caller reported that a dog was left out in the back of an open bed pick up truck at the Exeter Stop N Shop parking lot. The caller stated that the small dog was shivering and appeared to be extremely cold – the temperature in Exeter this morning was 12 degrees. Further investigation uncovered that the owner of the truck was not the owner of the dog and that he had no knowledge of how the dog happened to be left in his truck.

Animal Control Officer Jones of the Exeter Police Department was called out to investigate along with Investigator Sprowl and the dog was then delivered to the NHSPCA in Stratham. At the NHSPCA it was discovered that “Razzy”, as the dog is known, had been adopted out from their Adoption Center the previous month. When contacted by Sprowl, the dog’s owner confessed to having left her in the back of the truck after driving around looking for a place to discard her.

Exeter Police Department will investigate the case further and charges of Abandonment are expected to be brought against the dog’s owner.

Abandoning an animal is considered animal cruelty under the State of New Hampshire’s Criminal Code and carries a misdemeanor charge for the first offense. Citizens that have a need to dispose of their unwanted animals should call a humane society in their area and seek help in surrendering the animal rather than abandoning the animal.

The New Hampshire SPCA is a community resource center that provides animal adoption, education, investigation and sheltering services in a professional and compassionate way. The Adoption Center is open from 11 am – 4pm on Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 11 am – 7pm on Tuesday and Thursday, and closed on Wednesday. For more information about the NHSPCA, visit www.nhspca.org.

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