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Sutton Place Dog Fight Leads to Lawsuit, Report Says

By DNAinfo Staff on February 17, 2011 11:21am

A resident of a Sutton Place building is claiming that managers are discriminating against her two dogs in a new lawsuit.
A resident of a Sutton Place building is claiming that managers are discriminating against her two dogs in a new lawsuit.
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By Gabriela Resto-Montero

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

UPPER EAST SIDE — A resident of a Sutton Place Co-Op filed suit against the building's owners this week, claiming they're discriminating against her two dogs, the New York Post reported.

Liz Weston, the owner of two dogs named Kodi and Theo, claimed that the tenants corporation at 14 Sutton Place South has ordered her to keep her pets on choke leashes and use the service elevator because of the false belief that they're dangerous, the Post reported.

"It's like they're on a witch hunt for me," Weston told the paper. "It's insulting that these two animals are doing so much, and there are people in this building who are prejudiced against them."

But Weston's neighbors painted a different picture of the dogs, saying Theo, a bulldog, attacked a neighbor fox terrier called Lola in April,  the Post reported.

"Her dogs have attacked multiple times; muzzles are not a bad idea," Lola's owner, Ed Wollman, told the paper.

The dog fight resulted in theo biting Lola's tail, resulting in a $600 veterinarian bill that Weston told the Post she paid.