A dog is not a per se nuisance (see, McCluskey v Wile, 144 App Div 470). Therefore, if plaintiff residential cooperative corporation were to claim successfully that the dog residing in defendants' apartment constituted a nuisance, plaintiff would be required to plead and prove that the dog's conduct in some way substantially and unreasonably interfered with the property rights of defendants' fellow tenant-shareholders (see, Lewis v Stiles,
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