# (Glorious, wonderful RO) Puppy killed for eyeballing owner's boyfriend **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385 "2008-12-02T20:33:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/1 "2008-12-02T20:33:59Z")
A couple of decades ago, I remember some commercial for a Time-Life series of books about the old American West. A grizzled-sounding Western voice narrating the commercial uttered “He shot a man for looking at him” while describing … well, some cowboy or sheriff or whatever. I was reminded of that when I saw this article, only it was a Shih Tzu puppy that was eyeballing Marc Dash of Tonawanda, New York. [http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/511101.html](http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/511101.html) > [@](#): > > Town of Tonawanda police have arrested a 24-year-old man and accused him of kicking his girlfriend’s 10-month-old puppy down a flight of stairs and then trying to hide the dog’s body in the trunk of his car. > > Officers charged Marc E. Dash, of DeKalb Street, Tonawanda, with aggravated cruelty to animals, a felony, following the death of the Shih Tzu puppy named Grace. The incident apparently occurred late Sunday morning. > > Dash admitted to kicking the dog down the stairs, police reports quoted him as saying, because “it was eyeballing me, you know, looking at me like it didn’t like me.” Asain, it was a [Shih Tzu puppy](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1038/572370073_58aa983928.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/2 "2008-12-02T20:44:11Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > A couple of decades ago, I remember some commercial for a Time-Life series of books about the old American West. A grizzled-sounding Western voice narrating the commercial uttered “He shot a man for looking at him” while describing … well, some cowboy or sheriff or whatever. John Wesley Hardin, who shot a man for snorin’ too loud. I don’t trust Shih Tzus, myself. They’re hidin’ somethin’. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/3 "2008-12-02T20:47:23Z")
I had a chihuahua eyeball me once. Didn’t pay him no mind, though. I was pretty sure I could take him if he started anything. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/4 "2008-12-02T20:49:35Z")
I’d do more than ‘eyeball’ the fucker, given half a chance! I’d be willing to do jail time, for 15 minutes alone with the type of person that would do this. I just can’t relate to the type of mind that would do this to a defenceless creature. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/5 "2008-12-02T20:51:18Z")
It’s them little ones that cause the trouble. _hitch pants_ ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/6 "2008-12-02T21:02:04Z")
Maybe he just needed killin’. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/7 "2008-12-02T21:14:03Z")
Git a rope. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/8 "2008-12-02T21:19:12Z")
It’s a Shi Tzu. With all that hair, how can the guy be sure what the dog is looking at? ---
**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/9 "2008-12-02T21:29:00Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > I had a chihuahua eyeball me once. Didn’t pay him no mind, though. I was pretty sure I could take him if he started anything. When is a chihuahua NOT eyeballing things, though? Them and pugs…bug-eyed bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/10 "2008-12-02T21:45:43Z")
> [@Elysium](#): > > When is a chihuahua NOT eyeballing things, though? > > Them and pugs…bug-eyed bastards. Yeah! Mangy varmints! Then they get all twitchy. dad gummit. ---
**Author:** ![Hogwash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/11 "2008-12-02T22:03:23Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Asain, it was a [Shih Tzu puppy](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1038/572370073_58aa983928.jpg). Yes, Shih Tzus are of Asian origin, that is correct. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/12 "2008-12-02T22:10:20Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > I had a chihuahua eyeball me once. Didn’t pay him no mind, though. I was pretty sure I could take him if he started anything. I wouldn’t be so sure. Chihuahuas are mean tempered bastards–my sister has (had) two of them. She was all goo eyed over them, but they’d snap at you as soon as look at you. The guy who did this was an A #1 jerk–who kicks an animal down the stairs? Or kicks them, period? How little self esteem do you have to have to think a dog is looking at you as if it didn’t like you? I wonder if this is the end of their relationship. \ ---
**Author:** ![Sanity\_Challenged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Sanity\_Challenged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sanity_Challenged)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/13 "2008-12-02T22:11:09Z")
Did he make the field goal? ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/14 "2008-12-02T22:16:13Z")
Naw, the air conditioning was on and the 1 mph cross-wind pushed the hairball to the left and it bounced off of the post. Low-life couldn’t even cover the spread… Seriously, put the real animal in a shit zoo. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/15 "2008-12-02T22:27:56Z")
Man what a pussy. He was afraid of a Shih Tzu? Fuck that guy. Someone should kick him down the stairs. When the Shih Tzu is staring at you like it doesn’t like you that’s when you start cuddle punishing it. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/16 "2008-12-02T22:41:17Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > I had a chihuahua eyeball me once. Didn’t pay him no mind, though. I was pretty sure I could take him if he started anything. He probably thought you were the man who shot his paw. _spits tobaccy_ ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/17 "2008-12-02T22:58:26Z")
> [@Susie\_Derkins](#): > > He probably thought you were the man who shot his paw. > > _spits tobaccy_ Congratulations! You have won this thread! ---
**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/18 "2008-12-02T22:58:42Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Man what a pussy. He was afraid of a Shih Tzu? Fuck that guy. **Someone should kick him down the stairs**. When the Shih Tzu is staring at you like it doesn’t like you that’s when you start cuddle punishing it. Bolding mine Fucking-A. With his hands tied behind his back. It’s a fucking \* puppy\*! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/19 "2008-12-02T23:03:30Z")
I’m a prosecutor. Every now and then, I get an animal cruelty case; one recent one involved a Great Dane that had been starved down to a weight of 27 pounds. If there’s anything to like about such cases, it’s the fact that I don’t have to do any negotiating. Every now and then, they’ll ask for a reduction in my plea offer, and I just tell 'em, “No, we’ll let a jury see the pictures, and see what they give you.” I’ve never had a trial on an animal cruelty case yet. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385/20 "2008-12-03T01:06:56Z")
This guy sounds like the Dog Whisperer from Bizarro World. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glorious-wonderful-ro-puppy-killed-for-eyeballing-owners-boyfriend/475385.md?page=2)