Sep 23, 2024
Roseade Parkway is the kind of Burlington neighborhood where traffic moves slowly and kids ride their bikes in the street. But lately, neighbors say, a 65-pound mutt named Moose has been disturbing the peace. In the two years Moose has lived there, they contend, he’s charged at and bitten people and attacked their dogs, behavior that’s landed his owner, Diane Wheeler, a city order to find the pooch a new home. Wheeler, a deputy state’s attorney in Franklin County, has refused give up Moose, and the matter has been tied up in court for months. Meantime, the dog has continued to wreak havoc. Last week, Moose broke free of his leash at Leddy Park and bit a man on the hand, that person said, sending him to the emergency room. He’s since contacted an attorney. Wheeler stridently defends Moose as a traumatized rescue dog. She claims the city’s process is politically charged because Llu Mulvaney-Stanak, the sibling of Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, is one of five neighbors who filed the original complaint about the animal. That report and some of the others, however, were made before the mayor took office in April. With Wheeler’s heels deeply dug in, there’s no telling when the canine conundrum will be resolved. She has until early November to file court paperwork about the case. Her New North End neighbors, though, are growing impatient and frustrated. “It feels like this is escalating to another level,” said Llu Mulvaney-Stanak, who lives two doors down from Wheeler. “It's just a matter of time before this dog gets somebody else.” Officials were first alerted to Moose’s behavior in early 2023, around the time Wheeler and her elderly mother, Carol, adopted him. Over six months, Moose lunged and barked at people nearly a dozen times, often while they were walking their dogs, according to a report neighbors provided to city officials. Moose bit one dog in the face and left another with several puncture wounds on the neck and hip that had to be treated with antibiotics, the report says. Moose also bit a man last fall, though the incident was never reported to police. David Kirk, who lives on nearby Blondin Circle, told Seven Days that he was walking his two leashed Australian shepherds one November evening when Moose ran at them, latching onto his leg in the scuffle. The bite drew blood but wasn’t serious enough…
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