Mr.G
I looked at your profile and had a good chuckle and saw the dog (now I understand)...
Do you know what became of Steven Maul?
I plugged his name in the SF Chronicle's site and it came up zilch.
Man bites dog, stands trial
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7 - A San Francisco man who bit his dog
as part of a “primal” training regime has been ordered to
stand trial on felony charges of animal cruelty.
FURNITURE MOVER STEVEN Maul, 24, allegedly forced his 80-
pound (36 kg) Labrador puppy “Boo” to the ground on two
separate occasions to administer nips to the neck as part
of an unorthodox discipline system.
“Nothing here was cruel or hurtful,” Maul’s attorney,
Jasper Monti, told Tuesday’s San Francisco Chronicle after
a judge ordered Maul to stand trial on the charges. “My
client in fact has French kissed his dog. My client is very
oral.”
Witnesses described Boo as yelping wildly as Maul bit
him on the neck. In both cases they called authorities to intercede.
Maul has described the bites as part of “nature’s way”
of dog training by harnessing evolutionary models of pack
behaviour. He has denied that his bites draw blood, leave a
mark, or cause pain. “There’s no hurting involved,” he told
one reporter. “It’s communicating to the dog that you are
dominant.”
In a Monday hearing a superior court judge ordered Maul
to return on Nov. 21 to set a date for his trial. Boo,
meanwhile, is being cared for by the Association for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Maul, who said he spent some $4,500 earlier this year
on medical treatment for Boo after he was hit by a car, has
suggested that prosecutors are barking up the wrong tree in
depicting him as an animal abuser.
“He was the one who finished my burritos and drank out
of my water glass,” Maul said of Boo. “I miss him
constantly.” |
