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Thursday, June 1, 2006
Step aside, Ace Ventura, Nancy Green’s on the case
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
She knows she sounds weird.
“I connect with dogs,” Nancy Elizabeth Green told me. “I think the way they think.”
She called Tuesday after she read my column about “Toby,” the Shih Tzu that apparently was tortured to death. She wanted to offer Matt Ammons, Toby’s owner, her condolences and services.
In May 2004, someone tried to run over Green’s 4-year-old Aussie shepherd. Priscilla survived, though she lost sight in her right eye. Green wanted to prosecute the person responsible. She sought witnesses and information about the incident. Nothing turned up.
People, generally, don’t step up in such matters. Green does.
Two months ago, she saw an SUV get broadsided on North Druid Hills Road near I-85. A frightened pooch jumped out of the damaged car and high-tailed it to the woods.
Green, with her three dogs in tow, stopped to help. She, as well as the owner of the yellow Labrador mix, searched fruitlessly. Days later, a UPS driver who lives in the area spotted the leashed dog. Today, Scout’s home. The pet’s good fortune was the focus of an article in the April 9 edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
For Green of Snellville, the incident was an epiphany. She’s been rescuing stray and abused canines nearly two decades. And for the past two years, she’s been a private investigator for Atlantic Investigations in Decatur. Most cases have dealt with domestic issues.
Green, though, wants her own niche. She wants to help owners of lost, stolen or abused pets.
Think Ace Ventura, pet detective.
So she’s merged her dog passion with her P.I. skills. Of course, her services will come with a price, but the rate ($50 an hour) isn’t concrete. She’s flexible. Nothing weird about that.
When she called the other day, Green told me to relay a message to Toby’s grieving owner. She told me to tell him that she cared and that anything she could do for him would be gratis.
Nancy Elizabeth Green can be reached at 404-247-7723 or e-mail: Nancyelizabethpi@aol.com.
