Puppy mailing suspect wants dog back

A 39-year-old Minneapolis woman was charged with animal cruelty after allegedly trying to mail a puppy  in a sealed box to Georgia . She wants the puppy back now. Stacey Champion may find out soon whether authorities say yes or no. If she loses, the puppy will go up for adoption.
A Minneapolis woman has been charged with animal cruelty after postal workers say she tried to mail a puppy to Atlanta in a sealed box with no air holes.
Postal Service spokesman Pete Nowacki says employees became suspicious when the box suddenly fell off the counter after the woman left the post office Jan. 25. Postal inspectors opened the priority mail parcel and found a 4-month-old poodle mix, panting hard, inside.
Police Sgt. William Palmer says without the postal workers' intervention, the puppy would certainly have died in the airplane's unheated and non-pressurized cargo hold. It also had no food or water.