Even Dogs Can't Stand Them

[Little Joe diGenova and Vicky Toensing] have filed five complaints since March with the Montgomery County Division of Animal Control and Humane Treatment, contending that Scooby, aka Baby -- an 18-month-old female German shepherd owned by their Bethesda neighbor Donna Drennan -- has repeatedly menaced them, their neighbors and even their limo driver.

DiGenova charged that on March 22, Scooby "lunged at my legs." In July, across-the-street neighbor James May filed a supporting complaint describing a July 7 incident in which the dog "chased [diGenova] up on his front porch," causing diGenova to fall down before escaping into his house. The dog then barked threateningly at May from two feet away, May wrote. On Sept. 20, according to diGenova, the dog "charged" Toensing, who "fell off her bike and fled."

The thuggish, cigar-chomping counsellor and his old ball-and-chain took the dog to court (or an animal control hearing) and lost to the dog.