Whose Dog Played on the Wet Concrete? | Part 1

Added: 2026-05-03

[00:00:00]- Ms. Crowley, you had a big driveway that needed to be repaved, according to your complaint.

[00:00:05]You had it repaved, spent a couple of thousand dollars to have the work done.

[00:00:11]People who did the work put some tape, yellow tape around it.

[00:00:15]You looked outside, you saw some dogs on the driveway.

[00:00:19]- Yes.

[00:00:20]- Paw prints. - [Lucy] Paw prints.

[00:00:24]- And this was not Grauman's Chinese Theater?

[00:00:26]- No.

[00:00:28]- And you say that they were the defendant's dogs.

[00:00:31]- Yes, they were.

[00:00:33]- How do you know they were the defendant's dogs that made the paw prints on your fresh cement?

[00:00:38]- I went out there, I saw the two dogs fighting on this freshly poured cement.

[00:00:45]I immediately tried to get rid of them, the growls, the dogs growled and snarled at me.

[00:00:49]I had to pick up something, throw it at them, and the dogs ran off.

[00:00:54]There were two of them.

[00:00:55]They looked almost like twin dogs.

[00:00:56]And they ran next door to the defendant's house.

[00:00:59]- Did you see them go into the house?

[00:01:02]- I saw them go onto the property up by his front door gate area.

[00:01:07]A short while later, we went over to his house, asked him if he had dogs matching this description, and he said yes.

[00:01:15]- Had you ever seen the dogs before?

[00:01:16]- No, the defendant had recently moved into the property.

[00:01:20]- How recently?

[00:01:22]- Maybe two, three weeks before.

[00:01:24]- [Judge] And you had never seen the dogs before?

[00:01:25]- No, I have since seen the dogs in his backyard.

[00:01:28]- [Judge] Both of them? - Yes.

[00:01:31]- What do these dogs look like?

[00:01:32]- I would describe them as medium sized dogs, rather stockily built, black and white, salt and pepper colored.

[00:01:42]So far as I could tell, short course fur.

[00:01:46]- Mr. Flores?

[00:01:47]- Judge, your Honor.

[00:01:50]Okay, so far with the plaintiff is-- - [Judge] Do you have dogs?

[00:01:54]- Yes, I do have one dog, your Honor.

[00:01:56]- What kind of dog do you have, sir?

[00:01:58]- It is an Australian cattle dog.

[00:02:01]It's a female, medium size, overweight, shall we say.

[00:02:07]And I have another animal.

[00:02:09]- Looks like the dog that she described.

[00:02:12]- [Luis] Yeah, fairly. - [Judge] Okay.

[00:02:13]And you have another?

[00:02:14]- No, I got two cats and I got a rabbit.

[00:02:19]- Now, according to your answer to the complaint, your female dog sometimes goes into heat.

[00:02:25]- Correct, your Honor.

[00:02:26]- And so she has friends that-- - Yeah. (audience laughing) Yeah, we can say that, your Honor.

[00:02:33]- So your dog got out that day?

[00:02:37]- Well, I am not, I didn't see that.

[00:02:39]So I can take Mrs. Crowley's statement, that she saw a dog at site, or dogs.

[00:02:45]- And she said she saw the same dog that she saw on her driveway in your backyard since.

[00:02:54]- Since-- - [Judge] Since the incident.

[00:02:57]Is that right?

[00:02:58]- Yes.

[00:02:59]- So you went and looked at the paw prints?

[00:03:00]- [Luis] Exactly.

[00:03:01]- You investigated the paw prints.

[00:03:02]- That was after four or five days, because the concrete was already hardened.

[00:03:05]Okay, and then what I did, your Honor, if you may allow me, I can recall the evidence.

[00:03:13]First of all, I took some pictures of the paw prints on Mrs. Crowley's driveway.

[00:03:22]- [Judge] Show them to Mrs. Crowley and see if they look the same as-- - Could you recognize Mrs. Crowley, is this your driveway?

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