Animal lovers, or for that matter any person with an iota of compassion, ever gets numb to animal abuse. Last month, a Pit Bull puppy, became another tragic example of horrendous animal abuse at the hands of the very person who was supposed to be his guardian. Patrick, so named because he was discovered the day before St. Patrick's Day, was neglected, abused, starved, and then tossed down an apartment garbage chute (a 22-story apartment building). When a maintenance worker noticed the plastic bag moving just before he was going to put it in the trash compactor, he found the emaciated body of a puppy near death.