Sam the biting emotional support dog terrorizes Upper West Side apartment building
October 24, 2023
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1:16Now PlayingSam the biting emotional support dog terrorizes Upper West Side apartment building
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as posted by the channelMeet the Upper West Side’s most feared emotional support dog. NY Post Senior features writer Michael Kaplan shares this story.
Sam, a 4-year-old rescue, is accused of biting someone so badly he needed antibiotics and attacking tenants, staff and delivery workers at his owners’ W79th St apartment building — and is the subject of a police report.
He has even prompted an anonymous PSA telling people not to ride the elevator with him.
Joe Venafro, who did dare to ride, said he was left with seven puncture wounds when Sam, a mix of unknown breeds, bit him on the stomach so hard that he called the cops.
Venafro walked into the elevator on Sept. 8 after dropping his daughter at school, sharing it with fellow tenant Inna Fayenson, a Harvard-educated attorney, and her two dogs — one of them Sam, her emotional support dog for stress and anxiety for the last three years.
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