UPDATE 7-18-10

I KNEW IT!

THIS WAS POSTED ON THE DAILY DROOL. THANK CINDY. I DON’T THINK CATHY FROM OHBR WILL MIND IF I POST THIS BECAUSE SHE DID A MINI UPDATE TO ME LAST NIGHT.

Message: 6
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:17:36 -0400
From: “Cathy Rice” <cathy.rice1@att.net>

I handle most of the owner relinquish for OBR and wanted to say that we tried to
help this couple with these dogs more than a month ago. I was contacted by email
from a person who said she was a friend of the wife asking if we could do
anything to help. I called this person to discuss the circumstances to see what
we could do. I advised her that OBR has not been accepting owner relinquish for
some time now unless the circumstances involve someone who is physically or
mentally unable to care for their pets. We get too many requests to be able to
take them all so we have to set limits. There were two female bassets who were
spayed and two male bassets and a male bloodhound who were not neutered. I
offered to post the two females on our website as owner relinquish with a
rehoming fee to help them cover the cost of spaying the other dogs so that we
could then post them as OR. I also offered to help them locate a low cost spay
neuter clinic. The friend said she would get photos an
d info and relay it back to me. After 10 days I got no response so I called the
friend back who said that the wife had moved out and the husband had decided to
keep the dogs. Afterward I found out through talking with OBR’s director Eva
that the wife had called her and she had basically told her the same thing, that
OBR would post the dogs for them as OR and I would help them locate a low cost
spay neuter clinic to get the males neutered. Weeks went by with no
communication from the owners and nothing being done. Then Maribeth, our
adoption coordinator gets a call from a gentleman on 7/15 saying he is with the
local Humane Society and that 5 dogs were dumped at the local dog park and
asking if we would help. Maribeth refers it to Eva to see if they are the same
dogs/person she and I have already been contacted about. Eva verified that the
phone number is the same one as the person who originally called her. She calls
the man back who after Eva confronts him admits that the
dogs are his and that his wife took the dogs and dumped them at the park. He
also had the nerve to admit that yes, the dogs had been used for breeding but
he couldn’t remember how many times. So now he is upset because the Humane
Officer has them and the dogs could very well be euthanized if no one comes
forward to adopt them. I am having a hard time feeling sorry for these people
when OBR tried to help them more than a month ago, the man admits that they bred
the dogs so many times that he can’t remember how many, made money on the pups,
the wife if you notice in the video is using a laptop which I believe must cost
at least $300.00 or more but they have no money to help get the dogs neutered so
that we can get them placed. As you may have already read on the Drool OBR is in
severe financial staits. We have had to stop taking in dogs even from shelters
beause we have no foster homes available and have been paying to kennel dogs
that were pulled from kill shelters.
I know that things must be bad for all of the rescues out there but if you can
help by supporting one of our fund raisers it would be much appreciated. We will
be posting an online raffle soon on OBR’s website with many nice items including
a GPS. We also will be having a “yard sale” in Springfield, Ohio on August 7 at
Tool Tech, 4901 Urbana Rd. Our Bassetfest this year will be on Oct 2 at the same
beautiful dog park we have used for the past two years. The website is
www.columbusdogpark.com.
Please check out the dog park website. For any information about these events
please contact me offline and I will be happy to give details. Thanks,

Cathy
END OF POST…..

Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and needing to know lovers. Cindy, BHT resident just sent me this update. I totally missed it.

Start of update about the 4 bassets and 1 blood hound that were dumped by their owner.

CAUGHT!

Davis speaks out as the investigation heats up

Updated: Thursday, 15 Jul 2010, 1:12 AM EDT
Published : Thursday, 15 Jul 2010, 1:12 AM EDT

• Holly Samuels

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Animal Resource officials have been searching for her, now Connie Davis of Troy is coming forward to 2 News. She said she wanted to explain to her community why she made a decision that left so many shaking their heads.

Davis admits that late Monday night, she drove her 5 dogs to the Montgomery County Bark Park in Dayton, where they’d once gone to run and play, and dropped them off. Someone found the dogs the next morning and turned them in to the Animal Resource Center. Officials there later said that the dogs showed signs of neglect and possible ear infections.

Davis said she chose the Bark Park because it was enclosed, the dogs knew the area, and she knew that animal lovers would find them there and take care of them.

“I didn’t let them off in the street in a field with a bag of dog food and wish them luck,” she said. “I put them where I knew they would be okay.”

Note from Cat….Give me a break. I am fuming but I am holding back.
Officials at the Animal Resource Center said the decision to leave the dogs in the park was dangerous.

“Simply dropping them, albeit in a fenced in area, is not the best solution,” said Mark Kumpf, Director, Montgomery County Animal Resource Center. “With temperatures soaring over 90 degrees each day, leaving dogs in the sun is essentially the same as dropping them in the middle of an interstate.”

Wednesday, the story got even deeper. Investigators arrived at the Davis family’s former home in Huber Heights, and what they found was shocking. Our camera was there to capture trash was piled everywhere in the filthy house.

“The smell coming from the house, you can almost smell standing in the front yard,” said Kumpf.

Kumpf said the home would be referred to the housing inspector. Davis admitted that the house and the dogs had gotten to be too much.

“There was abuse going on, there was unemployment, poverty, and everything just weighs down on you and you just … I got overwhelmed with life,” said Davis. “I think we all did.”

Davis said she lost her job in July 2009, after a family emergency led her to run out of family medical leave. Davis also left her husband in May 2010, moving into a tiny studio apartment in Troy with two of her children. Pets are not allowed in the apartment, so her husband was left to take care of the dogs in their Huber Heights home, but after a year of money problems, foreclosure was looming.

Her husband called the Animal Resource Center about giving up the dogs, she said, but he was told that it would cost $200 to turn them in. That was money neither of them had.

Kumpf admits that all local rescue agencies charge a surrender fee, but he says deals can be made.

“Many of those fees are able to be waived under certain circumstances if people have the opportunity to come in and speak with a supervisor and come in and explain their situation,” said Kumpf.

We relayed the message to Davis, who had this to say: “I doubt it because when he (my husband) called me he was very angry, screaming. He told them that he was being foreclosed on that he was leaving, that these dogs need to be out of here. They asked if he could prove it, he said I have the foreclosure papers in my hand, and their response was, I don’t know what to tell you, sir.”

Davis said she even tried to lie, calling an emergency line to say that she’d found abandoned dogs. She said that didn’t work, either.

“They told me there was nothing they could do,” she said. “This is 911 I’m talking about.”

One shelter did offer some help, but told Davis that she couldn’t bring the dogs in until the next day. By then, Davis said, it was too late. She needed to get the dogs a home that day, because they were losing the house. That’s why, Davis said, she found herself at her wits end late Monday night. Looking back, Davis said she regrets letting things get so desperate.

“I wish I would have (gotten them a home earlier). We just weren’t ready to let them go,” she said.

Davis is now speaking out because she wants more options for people who find themselves in her position with their pets.

“There needs to be more help for people like me,” she said.

According to Kumpf, investigators are looking into bringing animal neglect charges against Davis.

End of article….

Here is the link where you can watch the video. The hounds are so sweet. I will keep following. Thanks so much Cindy for sending this to us.

LINK TO ARTICLE WITH VIDEO – MUST SEE!

More update later…..Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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