Exclusive | Unlicensed NYC boarders business still operating despite at least 3 dog deaths, grieving pooch owners say: City has done nothing

An unlicensed animal-boarding operation in a Park Slope apartment is still operating despite three dogs being killed by raging mutts while there, the dead pooches’ stricken owners allege.“Everywhere I turned, I was told there’s nothing that can be done,” lamented one of the tragic Brooklyn dogs’ owners, who only gave her first name, Lindsay, to The Post.The dog owner said her 4-year-old mixed pooch Penny was killed by a mutt at the boarding business in September, after three years of previous stays.She said she thought Penny’s death was a one-time incident — until she connected with the two other grieving dog owners through fliers she posted around the neighborhood.More than 20 animal-related complaints against the doggie boarding business — operated by owner Jurga Stankeviciute-Evans — date back to at least 2019, according to city 311 records.The NYPD responded to a half-dozen of the allegations between March 2022 and Oct.3, 2024, and found “no evidence of the violation at that time” — though most of the incident reports were closed within hours, if not minutes after the complaint was made, according to city records.A rep for the NYPD, asked whether the department’s animal-cruelty unit has investigated the business, told The Post that “harm or death to an animal caused by another animal is not a criminal matter.’’The representative said the owners would need to notify the city Department of Health of the incidents.A city source said the Health Department visited the address three times in the past over concerns reported to 311 but could not gain access and the owner did not respond to requests to talk.A department rep told The Post in a statement Monday, “Boarding facilities are supposed to be safe havens for our pets, not places where they experience harm.

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