Dogs rescued from 'horrific' Oakland home

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Pit bulls rescued from 'horrific' Oakland home

Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writer

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Oakland animal care officers were struggling this week to find homes for dozens of pit bulls rescued in one of the largest animal cruelty busts in decades.

"It was horrific, absolutely terrible," said Oakland police Officer Sarah Whitmeyer, who helped lead the raid on a squalid East Oakland home. "The smell was so bad even a mask didn't help. All of us were coughing and trying to breathe."

Police found 33 bloody and terrified pit bulls at the two-bedroom Sobrante Park home owned by Arthey Yancey when they swept through with a warrant on Dec. 9. The dogs were in crates stacked three high in a makeshift storage room. Some of the crates were so caked with excrement that the dogs had dug holes to lie in it and had skin stained yellow from urine.

Yancey, 68, was charged in Alameda County Superior Court with felony animal cruelty. He is free on his own recognizance.



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Regardless of the breed, He needs to go to jail.

[lunatica]

1. It seems pit bulls are one of the most abused dog breeds

I'm glad they're trying to find homes for them. It's too easy for them to euthanize this breed just because it's this breed.

[tosh]

2. Free on his own recognizance??!!??

:wtf:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

3. If there is a hell -

there will be a special place for this man. :mad: Dog fighting strikes again.

I hope every last one of those babaies finds a safe forever home.

[kestrel91316]

4. I can think of a fit punishment for him.

Unfortunately, it probably isn't available due to the prohibition against "cruel and unusual" punishment.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

7. the same one I'm thinking of ? Let him lay in a dog waste

filled crate - just for a couple of hours.

[kestrel91316]

9. Oh, no, a few days.

[damntexdem]

5. Well, now Yancey is in the dog house.

[Beaverhausen]

6. I'm glad these dogs were found and will get help

and I hope all others who are in similarly bad situations are also found.

And I can't understand why this guy is free?

[Taverner]

8. I live near Oakland. Is there anything I can do?

Short of fostering the dogs (I have two kids and a beagle)