Now The Pit Bulls And Rottweilers On The Other Hand, They’re Just Asking For It

The city’s first order-of-protection for a pet has been issued following a recent change in the law. Mildly offensive Post quasi-homophobia added for your reading pleasure:

A jilted gay man turned into the wicked bitch of the west and beat up his ex-boyfriend’s tiny bichon frise, prompting the city’s first-ever order of protection for a dog.

Fredrick Fontanez, 20, now must stay 100 yards away from the pooch Bibi and have no contact with the dog, Judge Alex Zigman ordered in Queens Criminal Court yesterday.

ASPCA officials say that on July 20, Fontanez was dog-sitting for his boyfriend, Derek Lopez, at the latter’s house on 149th Avenue in Howard Beach, when the two had a fight over the phone at about 6 p.m.

Lopez allegedly told Fontanez, who lives in The Bronx, to be out of his house by the time he got home from work.

Sometime later, neighbors report hearing blood-curdling yelps and howls from the apartment where Fontanez, who is 5-foot-10 and 180 pounds, was alone with 5-year-old Bibi, a cute, 15-pound, white powder puff of a dog.

“I heard him kick the dog. You know when a dog yelps, you know something is not right,” said neighbor Miguel Colon, 38. “I know when a dog is being hurt.”

Fontanez left when Lopez got home — and Colon told him what he had heard. Lopez was shocked when he saw the pup.

“A few minutes later, he knocks on my door and says, ‘Yo, look at this,’ He’s got the welts, he’s got black and blues,” said Colon, an animal lover. “It was black and blue over his spine, maybe four inches from his tail. You could see he was shivering, see it in his face.

“You know that’s not cool — that’s not cool. Because that dog can’t defend itself,” he said. “The guy should go pick on some of the pit bulls or Rottweilers around here.”

After an investigation by the ASPCA, Fontanez was arrested Wednesday. He was arraigned early yesterday and released with no bail on orders to stay away from Lopez and his canine best friend.

The extension of orders of protection to animals was signed into law just late last month by Gov. Pataki.

“This is precisely why my legislation is so necessary,” said Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, who co-sponsored the fur-friendly bill. Abusing a loved one’s pet “is a way of saying ‘You’re next.’ It’s a warning.”