Barking Mad

  This is a Schnoodle named Guess, and he's 4 months old. He's not a terribly pretty dog, but it's not his fault and neither is the ordeal he went through this week. 

  A lady named Stacey Champion was caught this week trying to airmail Guess from Minneapolis to Georgia. The inappropriately-named Ms. Champion stuck the puppy in a box and poked holes in the sides, intending to send him to an 11 year old relative. The person at the post counter asked the lady if she was sending anything hazardous, liquid, or fragile. And each time she responded to the negative, indicating that contained in the carton was a toy robot. The postagent thought it was a little sketchy, so she had a security officer check things out, where it was discovered that there was indeed a dog in the box. 

  I can almost buy that someone is stupid enough to not realize that an animal would freeze to death in the cargo hold of a plane. But she didn't put food, water, or a blanket in the box either. This dog would not survive the trip. So she was arrested, and this is where it gets weird. She's asked animal control to return the dog to her. Apparently a lady who is so dimwitted that she nearly killed an animal trying to mail it; one so daft as to think a puppy can survive without food or drink thinks that a judge will allow her to have ownership of a dog. 

  It never ceases to amaze me as to how much stupid can be trapped inside one human body.