NORWICH – Tracy A. Price, the woman accused of leaving a dog tied to a stove for multiple days without food and water, saw her bail lowered by $250 when she appeared in Norwich City Court on Thursday, Aug. 18.

It is alleged that Price tied a dog to a stove for multiple days with a leather shoelace. When authorities arrived on the scene, they said that the dog allegedly had a laceration to its neck, and was covered in urine and feces.

Price, who has had a warrant out for her arrest since Sep. 2015, also owes restitution to a local business in a separate matter, in the amount of $256.56. She currently stands charged with the class A misdemeanor of torturing/injuring animals; failure to provide proper sustenance, under the Agriculture and Markets law of the State of New York.

The Honorable Judge James E. Downey said that this is the first arrest on Ms. Price's record. “She has a clean rap sheet, let's not get crazy here,” he said.