Alexandria Man Charged For Trying To Poison Neighbor’s Dogs For Disturbing With Loud Barking (Watch Video)

Over “loud barking” from their dogs, an Alexandria man was seen on camera hurling what detectives believe to be bits of pork packed with rat poison into the yard of his neighbor.

Frankie, Igor, and Chester, three rescue dogs owned by Heather Dinsmore, were the intended victims.

Since they are dogs, my dogs bark. We don’t, however, leave them outside. We never leave them alone. We spend about half the time up in New Jersey, said Dinsmore.

Fortunately, none of the dogs took any of the meat in. Dinsmore told FOX5 that earlier this month, while she was visiting family in New Jersey while away from her Del Ray, Alexandria home, security footage showed their next-door neighbor pulling into their driveway.

He had a plastic bag in his hand and started breaking something apart in the bag and then throwing stuff into the yard,” said Dinsmore. “We were all shocked.”

The Animal Welfare League of Alexandria says they recovered a substance from the meat “that is suspected of containing some form of toxin.” Laboratory tests are still pending.

The neighbor turned himself in to the authorities on Monday in connection to class 1 misdemeanor charges, according to the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria.

The neighbor also reportedly left a note of apology in their mailbox, saying he had been “bothered by loud barking for a long time,” but saying it was “no excuse” for “tossing tainted meat” into their yard.

 

We do not accept his apology if you call that letter an apology.  And I think reading that letter, he’s just sorry he got caught and not sorry for what he tried to do,” said Dinsmore.

“This is not the neighborhood to be in if you don’t like dogs because almost every house here has dogs,” said Bob Miller, who lives across the street from the Dinsmores with their dogs Riley and Sofie. “We all feel horrified because attacking a dog that’s a defenseless creature is like attacking a child.  It’s sad.”