Last year, Giants linebacker Antonio Pierce declared in response to the Mike Vick situation that “[a]nybody who fights pit bulls is a punk.”

Now, Pierce is accused of neglecting one of his own pit bulls.

The Middlesex (N.J.) Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is a quasi-law enforcement group, and it has issued to Pierce a summons based on the condition of one of two pit bulls that escaped from Pierce’s house while he was in Arizona for the Super Bowl.

But Pierce is not accused of fighting dogs.  “This summons is for neglect.  There is no pitbull fighting or any of that nonsense here,” said agency chief Walt Mychalchyk.  “After the dogs got loose, we found that one was underweight and had a respiratory illness.  The other one was fine.”

Pierce doesn’t face jail time for the charge, and it’s not an actual arrest.  Though we’re tempted to give the Giants three points in Turd Watch II, we’ve decided that it’s not the kind of thing that results in points being “awarded.”