It was exhausting to overlook the new pink kitten {that a} girl dropped at the DoveLewis Veterinary Emergency & Specialty Hospital earlier this month.
A veterinarian discovered the kitten hypothermic, in shock and barely responsive, to not point out dyed sizzling pink.
The proprietor informed the hospital that the kitten had diarrhea so she tried cleansing the animal with a combination of rubbing alcohol, Windex and Spic and Span family cleaner, in keeping with a possible trigger affidavit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court.
When the kitten arrived on the animal hospital, it was nonetheless soaked with the cleansing answer. The rubbing alcohol triggered the kitten’s physique temperature to plummet and turn into hypothermic, in keeping with the veterinarian’s report back to police.
The girl who introduced the kitten in arrived with a Windex spray bottle and “did not seem to understand that the chemicals were toxic,” to the animal, Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Austin G. Buhl wrote within the affidavit.
Christopher J. Allori, an Oregon Humane Society legislation enforcement agent, adopted up, saying the proprietor, Elizabeth Ann Zurcher-Wood, admitted to utilizing the chemical to attempt to clear the kitten.
Zurcher-Wood, 39, was arrested final Thursday, after the supervisor of the Deluxe Inn Motel on Southeast Powell Boulevard alerted police that the motel was asking to have her evicted.
Allori, together with a Portland police officer, met the girl on the motel and took her into custody.
Inside her motel room, they discovered the pink kitten inside a stroller. The kitten additionally appeared to have burn marks on its head, in keeping with the affidavit. The Humane Society took the kitten into custody as properly. The kitten’s present situation wasn’t clear from courtroom paperwork.
Zurcher-Wood is accused of second-degree animal abuse. She entered a not responsible plea to the cost on Friday and stays in custody at Multnomah County Detention Center.
Zurcher-Wood was on probation on the time of final week’s arrest following her conviction and sentencing in June 2022 for a first-degree bias crime and tried second-degree assault. That case stemmed from her try to kidnap a 6-year-old boy and threaten the boy’s dad and mom with a machete in downtown Portland on Aug. 22, 2021.
When arrested, she was carrying a machete and an ax, in keeping with a possible trigger affidavit.
The boy had been in keeping with his dad and mom for pizza on Southwest Third Avenue, when Zurcher-Wood claimed the dad and mom “stole my son,” and lunged towards the kid to seize him, the affidavit mentioned. The boy’s mom threw her piece of pizza on the stranger and informed her to go away her son alone, in keeping with the affidavit. Zurcher-Wood then pulled out a machete and threatened to chop the mom and yelled a racist slur at her, the affidavit mentioned. A witness confirmed the mom’s account and informed police that Zurcher-Wood was swinging the machete towards many individuals.
Zurcher-Wood had been declared unfit to help in her protection for a number of months final 12 months and was despatched to the Oregon State Hospital for care. She was returned to courtroom in May 2022 and located match to proceed whereas taking psychotropic medicine, in keeping with courtroom data. She entered no contest pleas to tried second-degree assault, first-degree bias crime and menacing and was sentenced in June 2022 to 3 years of probation.
On Friday, Multnomah County officers ordered Zurcher-Wood to stay in custody on the latest animal abuse allegation, discovering she had violated the phrases of her probation with the brand new cost and had did not report back to her probation officer in October.
— Maxine Bernstein
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