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She’s a canine’s worst buddy.
At least 5 dogs have died, been injured, or gone lacking below the care of Marlene Cordova — a Queens girl who runs an unlicensed dog-sitting business out of her Bayside condo — in line with outraged pup house owners.
“Marlene killed my puppy,” Coby Davidson commented in response to a Jan. 8 Facebook publish on the Nassau County Lost & Found Pets web page, which anonymously warned different canine house owners in opposition to hiring Cordova as a canine sitter.
According to textual content messages obtained by The Post between Davidson and Kelly Brach, an expert pet tracker, Cordova admitted to the canine proprietor she had left a chunk of watermelon out when leaving his home, which his pooch ate, inflicting the canine to fatally choke.
“I had no idea anyone else had a similar experience,” Davidson wrote on Facebook. “I can’t give all the details here but we did get a settlement from her insurance company which obviously is never enough to replace him in our hearts.”
Baneet Pabla’s world was turned the other way up — and his Australian trip minimize quick — after Cordova knowledgeable him on Dec. 28 that his beloved, 4-year-old Australian Shepherd, Ozi, was lacking.
After catching the earliest flight home, Pabla, 35, went on to Cordova’s 217th Street home the place he had left Ozi for her to look at on numerous events since he first discovered Cordova’s dog-sitting profile on Rover, a pet care companies app, in 2019.
“At that point, I had no reason to be suspicious because I had used her before, so that trust was there,” the East Elmhurst resident advised The Post.
At first, Cordova advised Pabla that Ozi had escaped her home — doubtlessly via a door she’d left open — whereas she wasn’t home, and that she’d totally searched the world for him, known as close by vets and animal shelters, and alerted neighbors to his disappearance.
But Pabla doubted her model of occasions after inquiring about Ozi at close by businesses and residences, “and nobody had any idea there was a dog missing,” he stated. When he known as vets and shelters, “that was the primary time they have been listening to about my canine.
“Nothing she said added up,” Pabla stated.
After Cordova stopped responding to Pabla’s messages days later, he employed Brach, who used search dogs to trace Ozi’s scent.
The dogs’ response signifies that “Ozi did not leave that block on foot,” Brach defined.
“We still have no idea what happened to Ozi and we have no idea where he is, even if he’s alive,” Pabla lamented.
Other cases of dogs allegedly disappearing and getting damage whereas below Cordova’s care embrace:
- A 12-year-old Patterdale Terrier, Boozer, who has by no means been discovered since he went lacking from Cordova’s home in July 2021, in line with the Bayside proprietor and social media posts on the time.
- Alex Abramov’s 12-year-old Russell Terrier combine, Barkley, allegedly sustained three pelvic fractures from getting hit by a automobile after he inexplicably escaped Cordova’s home in February 2022.
- Shirit Cohen’s 7-month-old Shar Pai, Gator, wanted 5 stitches on his muzzle after he was allegedly attacked by one other canine Cordova was additionally watching at her home in February 2022.
Cordova declined to remark.
A spokesperson for Rover stated Cordova was faraway from the platform two years in the past, however wouldn’t present a motive as a consequence of confidentiality points.
The metropolis Department of Health is “currently investigating” a grievance Cordova is illegally working a canine boarding business in residential premises, a division spokesperson stated.
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