800 small dogs seized from triple-wide mobile home

[Contrary1]

:wow:

TUCSON, Ariz. - About 800 small dogs, including Chihuahuas, terriers and Pomeranians, were seized from a triple-wide mobile home whose occupants were overwhelmed trying to care for the animals, authorities said Wednesday.

Pima County sheriff's deputies and animal welfare officials who removed the dogs also found 82 caged parrots in the home in a rural area northwest of Tucson.

Some dogs were pregnant and giving birth as they were taken to shelters in Tucson, said Jenny Rose, a spokeswoman for the Humane Society of Southern Arizona. Ninety-six dogs were taken from the house Monday and 700 more on Wednesday, she said.

"The home was definitely in very bad condition, urine and feces all over the home, in the kitchen and bedroom, with a very strong odor," she said. "Obviously, 800 dogs in a triple-wide mobile home, they were packed in there. That being said, they were in pretty good shape."

More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23601914/

[AlCzervik]

1. awful, yet another puppy mill. They need to check the ground around that trailer

and see how many dogs are buried there. Elderly or not those people were running a puppy mill---


Deputies were alerted this month after a woman who bought a Chihuahua at the home reported the conditions, Ogden said.

[Fridays Child]

6. It's not a puppy mill. They're animal hoarders—not that it makes a difference to the poor dogs.

Anyway, animal hoarding is a variation of OCD, and this is an extreme case.

[AlCzervik]

7. did you read the article, they sell dogs, call it a fun factory if you want but it's

still a puppy mill.

[Fridays Child]

11. In any case, for those who may be so inclined, the Southern Arizona Humane Society...

...is overwhelmed by the influx of animals and desperately needs help in the form of contributions, large or small. Here's their web site: http://www.hssaz.org/

[magellan]

2. People are sick. n/t

[flvegan]

3. "The owners were breeding and offering the dogs for sale,"

Well, then. Best to abuse and kill if the chance arises, right?

[ben_meyers]

4. They're lucky that this didn't happen a few miles north

in Maricopa county. As much as people might not like our Sheriff, he is a big animal abuse crusader. People like this could expect the worst from Sheriff Joe.

[Indenturedebtor]

9. Yeah Sheriff Joe is kind of a dipshit

But these people should be crammed into a triple wide with 800 other "puppy hoarders" as you say, and left to breed and eat eachother.

Tucson. Bleh. I need to move back east. Sick of this town.

[troubleinwinter]

10. Joe is more than "kind of a dipshit". He is a sociopath.

Go move back east. Surely there are no sick animal hoarders or puppy mills in the east. It's all about your location.

[Fridays Child]

5. self delete

[housewolf]

8. I can't imagine this...

There's been a lot of incredulous news over the past 3 days, what with the Spitzer thing, the woman who sat on a toilet for 2 yrs & had to have a medical team remove the seat from her bottom, and now this.

Unbelievable...

[orleans]

13. !

[OhioChick]

12. Oh My!

800 dogs in a triple-wide mobile home??? :wow:

[orleans]

14. this is really sad. n/t