The Associated Press reports this afternoon that the Missouri Humane Society has rescued more than 150 dogs and -- no kidding -- a Bengal tiger from a puppy mill in Seneca. (The Missouri Humane Society still has on its home page news of last week's epic Yorkie rescue in Greene County, not far from Seneca.) Google Maps indicates that Seneca is a little south of Joplin and a few miles north of hell.
The AP refers to the site of the rescue as "a substandard dog-breeding facility." Sure, you could say a place apparently trying to breed deadly tigerdogs is substandard. But that doesn't take into account all the wide-eyed children in the boot heel screaming, "Daddy, I want a puppy! I want a puppy from the tigers-and-puppies place!"
Seriously, this place was raided two years ago, when another 150 dogs had to be rescued, and the owner wasn't cited. Does it take Shere Khan to get the sheriff's attention out there?
Authorities have taken the tiger to the Springfield zoo. The other animals -- including 30 puppies and four pregnant dogs, the AP says -- have left their poop-clogged kennels for St. Louis.
Showing 1-2 of 2
We have two pitbulls, both are extremely shy, lovable dogs. We have had our oldest one for six years now. Last spring our neighbors came yelling and cussing at me across the yard, I did not know what they were talking about, apparently someone let my oldest pit outside and she supposely attacked their dog and they had to take it to the vet. The dog is alive and going strong. They filed charges on us without showing us the report or anything. I was told to put Button our six year old. to sleep, I refused and said I would fight it, which is what we are doing, just now. Our dogs are not allowed out of our yard, and are never out without being on a chock chain. The main reason we are fighting this because we have had two dogs shot with a pistol, in front of our sons. The first one was shot when my son was working on a fence of Barry Odnell's neighbor. He shot our dog from inside his house shooting outside and killed our dog on the sidewalk, now that bullet could have ricocheted and hit our son. We called the law and a report was made and complaint was made. Nothing was done to Barry for shooting in town or shooting an animale. Few years after that we had another dog shot by Jim Hutchinson of Denton, he was drunk with a pistol in the childrens park here. Several kids were around, he shot our dog in front of my youngest son and his friends. Jim and his drunk buddy took our dog and dumped him on a dirt road. The law was called again and of coarse nothing done. We even asked the county attorney Charles Baskins to please check into this for us. Because this was our 2nd dog killed by a gun in the town of Denton, Kansas, and by someone drunk and on drugs. But I guess you can do things like this in Denton Kansas and get away with it. Mr Baskins more or less made fun of us for wanting him to do something about our dogs. Each time one of our sons could have been killed, but nothing was done.
like
dislike
