Man Sentenced for Leaving an Emaciated Dog Out in a Snowstrom

Chouncey Love was sentenced to sixty days in jail for putting an already emaciated pill bull out in a snowstorm in an alley hoping someone would take it. He was half-right. A neighbor saw the dog tied up in an alley and called police. The snowstorm dumped ten inches of snow that day and this dog was left there to die or have someone maybe find it.

Love was also ordered to pay restitution of $2,731 that was spent by the Sheboygan Humane Society to nurse the pit bull back to health. The pit bull weighed only twenty-six pounds when rescued and could hardly stand up. The body score for the dog at the time it was rescued was at 1 out of a score of one to nine. Sheboygan County Humane Society manger Carey Payne said that for a healthy dog, the body score should be around four or five.

Chouncey Love told police that the dog did not belong to him, it belonged to a friend that he had not seen or heard from in a month. He tied the pit bull in the alley in hopes that someone would see it and call someone to take it.

A Sheboygan judge ordered the sixty-day sentence for the misdemeanor count of intentionally abandoning the dog and bail jumping.