Bay Ridge pets beware!
Serial animal killers are leaving out poisoned and glass-laced pet food to nix neighborhood fuzz balls, animal lovers say. The fiends are slipping the miasmal Meow Mix onto sidewalks and into yards where locals leave untainted treats, and folks combatting the cretins are flagging, one woman said.
“Those people, they know me, so they watch me and leave it out when I’m not around,” said Anna Scollazino. “When we pass the next time, it’s all over the place. We manage it as best we can, but this is every day, and we’re just exhausted.”
The sicko appears to be mixing poison and crushed glass into wet cat food and bread and leaving a sugar-and-insecticide mix on sidewalks, according to photos and locals’ accounts.
The noxious Nine Lives has claimed three stray cats and dozens of birds over the last four months in an area bounded by 90th and 92nd streets, Ridge Boulevard, and Fourth Avenue, Scollazino said.
She found 31 apparently infected, dead fowl near Visitation Monastery on Ridge Boulevard that she suspects succumbed to the sugary insecticide. The woman also discovered a slurry of bleach and cat food outside a dog-owning friend’s house, and now the man says the pungent poison has him spooked.
“You didn’t have to put your nose to it — you could smell it from the ground,” said Brian Baglioni. “People are nervous about taking their dogs out, because whatever is being left out is killing birds and cats and could be a threat to dogs too.”
Baglioni and Scollazino have a suspect — a neighbor they often see skulking around who seems to be leaving a trail of toxic Tender Vittles and dead animals.
The pair called the police four times, and this weekend, officers finally confronted the man after they found poisoned food on his property, Scollazino said.
Cops warned the man and confiscated the perverted Purina, but Scollazino said she found more tainted treats left out on Monday.
A longtime homeowner said she saw the man in front her house one night and found poisoned food beside a tree in her yard the next morning, but she doesn’t want anything to do with his acrimonious anti-animal agenda.
“There is no reason to put poison in out in my yard,” said Diana Mikelis. “Let them do it in their own house if they have a problem.”
