Today's "tail" is about a dog that testified at court.
--Tucson Citizen 22 May 1965
A dachshund’s bark became a bone of contention yesterday in City Court.
State’s witnesses testified that Mrs. Katie Ryan’s two dachshunds bark loud enough at night to wake them up.
In the wintertime, said Mrs. Robert M. Quinn, the complaining witness, she heard the barks at night from a distance of 75 feet, even with the bedroom window closed.
However veterinarian Lloyd Orsborn, a defense witness, maintained that a dachshund’s bark, compared with that of other dogs, is “medium,” not loud.
Furthermore, said Orsborn, a person standing beside a closed window could only hear a faint bark from a distance of 75 feet.
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Mrs. Ryan, 51, of 4442 E. La Jolla Circle, is being tried on a charge of harboring a barking dog, and testimony will continue at a date to be announced.
She appeared in court as the result of a complaint signed by Mrs. Quinn, of 4031 E. Cooper Circle. The complaint alleges that Mrs. Ryan’s dachshunds caused a disturbance on five dates last February and March.
During one three-week period, Mrs. Quinn testified, she lost more than three hours sleep a night because of Mrs. Ryan’s dachshunds. She said she could distinguish their barks from those of her own dachshund and three other neighbors’ dogs.
The barking, Mr. and Mrs. Quinn told a packed courtroom, increased when the female dachshund bore puppies and disturbed construction workers hired by the Quinns.
“Even when I opened my kitchen door they barked,” Mrs. Quinn testified.
City magistrate Frank Ellig decided not to hear testimony from 10 police officers when the defense and state both stipulated that the officers heard no barking when they went to Quinn’s home to investigate complaints.
A defense witness, Robert Stanley of 4426 Cooper Circle, sad the Quinns called the police department Jan. 26 when they heard his son’s four-piece band practicing in his carport.
Come back tomorrow for the verdict.
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