GRENADA – More neglected dogs have been taken from the home of a woman who twice before has had emaciated pets taken from her residence. Doll Stanley, Regional Director of Investigations for In Defense Of Animals, said five dogs were taken from an unoccupied mobile home on McKenzie Road, just east of the Grenada County line. The person associated with the mobile home was living without utilities and had been taken in by local residents.
Stanley said the dogs had been locked in the mobile home for months, fed occasionally, had no water, and lived in their waste.
The woman responsible for the dogs has been a subject of IDA seizures in the past, once from her Yalobusha County property, just outside Oakland, Mississippi on U.S. Highway 32, and a second time from this same McKenzie Road mobile home.
No charges will be filed at this time as the woman’s health and mental capacity are in question. She has been directed to keep no animals in the mobile home, or to have animals at any residence unless she is a guest and her host has animals.
Stanley, who also serves as director of Hope Animal Sanctuary (HAS) said: “Situations like this are so common. Lonely people who believe they love animals pick up, or take in wandering strays and think they are confining them for their protection. This person is a classic hoarder. We are just thankful that this time there weren’t 28 dogs like we seized the first time, or nine like we took last summer.”
Stanley also said given the current economy, donations for animal shelters are down and IDA’s Hope Animal Sanctuary is unable to take in new animals. The dogs seized in Grenada will benefit from the partnership IDA-HAS has developed with the Mississippi Animal Rescue League, who took one dog, and others will go to foster homes the group has developed in the Jackson area.
“It is heartbreaking to find animals in such conditions and wonder what their future will be,” Stanley said. “If there had been 28 ill dogs like we rescued from this same woman several years ago, the odds are that most would have been humanely euthanized due to lack of space for them at local shelters.”
IDA and the HAS is trying to raise $2,000 for a February transport to their adoption partner in Colorado. They hope to find homes for these dogs and 60 others who would be sent to Colorado with them.
For more information contact Doll Stanley at In Defense Of Animals 662-809-4483.
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