Here's a sobering reminder of why rubber dog booties weren't just created to amuse humans: a small dog was electrocuted by a stray wire in front of her Lower East Side apartment. According to the News, a 46-year-old woman was walking Bella, an 11-year-old pit bull terrier mix, around 4:30 p.m. Saturday on Clinton Street near Delancey Street when the electrocution occurred.
"We were entering the building when Bella started acting funny,” the dog’s owner, who asked not to be named, told them. "She let out a cry. She didn’t seem to want to go into the building. Then she went into a spasm and just laid there." The dog died by the time they got her to a pet hospital on the Upper East Side. Con Ed later said frayed wiring from a scaffold light was to blame for the incident.
When it snows a lot, this sort of thing tends to happen, unfortunately: dogs have been electrocuted in similar circumstances in Chelsea, Harlem, Prospect Heights, Battery Park, and Park Slope.
