Stacey Champion, Minnesota Woman, Tries To Mail Puppy In Box

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis woman has been charged with animal cruelty after postal workers say she tried to mail a puppy to Atlanta in a sealed box with no air holes.

Postal Service spokesman Pete Nowacki says employees became suspicious when the box suddenly fell off the counter after the woman left the post office Jan. 25. Postal inspectors opened the priority mail parcel and found a 4-month-old poodle mix, panting hard, inside.

Police Sgt. William Palmer says without the postal workers' intervention, the puppy would certainly have died in the airplane's unheated and non-pressurized cargo hold. It also had no food or water.

The Star Tribune says 39-year-old Stacey Champion has been charged with animal cruelty. The dog was taken to the city's animal control facility.

Comments

[Julie McCuiston]

02:23 PM on 02/16/2011

Just more proof of the dumbing down of America :(

[dbrett480]

07:02 PM on 02/10/2011

We have too many knuckleheads.

[Debbi Mihelic]

11:43 AM on 02/09/2011

wth is wrong with people??? Seriously. Amazing. Incredible. Stupidity.

[Jer Hod]

09:13 PM on 02/08/2011

So when it happens to a dog...everyone is up in arms...but when cattle and poultry are treated in a similar manner heading to the slaughterhouse...it is business as usual...

[BDKennedy]

03:23 PM on 02/10/2011

Try this. Mail a chicken and see what happens.

[MadamRoma]

06:00 PM on 02/06/2011

I would like to clean her clock.

[Stacey Champion]

05:04 PM on 02/05/2011

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2011/02/stacey_champion_puppy_mail_video.php

[Stacey Champion]

04:28 AM on 02/05/2011

http://www.azcentral.com/video/777639348001

[Stacey Champion]

07:30 PM on 02/04/2011

For those of you eager to send Stacey Champion a nastygram, please read the following first so I don't get it PLEASE.

http://phxosophical.blogspot.com/2011/02/stacey-champion-who-didnt-mail-puppy.html

Sharing a name and age with someone is not a fun thing when that person does something really stupid!

[LeeCalif]

10:21 AM on 02/04/2011

Puppy mills in Minnesota are everywhere.

[scott456]

11:44 PM on 02/03/2011

Bring in the straightjackets!

[Hypnos Rises]

10:19 PM on 02/03/2011

I'd like to see someone on the on the net, to get seven or eight boxes. So then they can go to her house. Then they can mail her. In 7 or 8 different places. Call it cleaning house.

[eilish]

05:56 PM on 02/03/2011

WTF? This is the best she could do? Now, that's a lotta trouble, boxing up the dog and dragging it down to the post office.

Here's a clue: Most animal rescue/humane societies have drop boxes (kennels) outside the shelter so you can sneak in at night and dump your unwanted pets and noooobody will know. My neighbor runs a small-animal wildlife rescue and she told me about it.

(I didn't think the baby elk qualified as a 'small animal' but we fed him anyway - for a freakin' year!)

[SallySassalot]

05:35 PM on 02/03/2011

What happened to common sense? Huh?

When did this nation lose ALL common sense?!

[ratitouille]

11:58 AM on 02/03/2011

I hope this falls under 'Feliny Animal Cruelty.' Animals are not 'property,' any more than are children. Our laws need to reflect that. As long as our society fails to respect animals as the sentient individuals they are, some people will not understand that they suffer and die just as we do.
Thanks to the U.S. Postal worker who saved this puppy's life.

[srose74]

11:28 AM on 02/03/2011

She is clearly mentally disturbed.

[avon96734]

07:07 PM on 02/08/2011

I don't think so. She just seemed incredibly ignorant with not much up there.