Look what is going on in my old neighborhood in East Boston.

Police are hunting a pet-hating coward who mixed a toxic snack of rodent killer and meat and stashed cups filled with the lethal chow around an East Boston park frequented by dog walkers - poisoning a chocolate Labrador retriever puppy.

When we lived in East Boston I went to that park everyday with my dogs for ten years. Usually several times a day.

The entire neighborhood of Jeffries Point has undergone a HUGE facelift, and the park now sits behind apartments that are selling for over a million dollars each. For nearly all of my years as a resident, that same building was vacant and home to raccoons. All we know is that the raccoons didn't do it.

The park is lovely, and has incredible views of Boston Harbor. It is maintained not by the city, but by the neighbors. They plant flowers, mow the lawn and prune the Cherry tree. Most people appreciate that the dogs walk through there at all hours, because it tends to keep drinking and drugs out of the area, and the dog people help to keep it clean.

In 2003 a similar thing happened at a dog park in Portland Oregon, where at least 12 dogs died.

I still have a lot of friends living on Jeffries Point, both human and canine, and I want this case solved.