Will the abuse ever end?
It seems as if the longer I write this blog, the tougher some of the stories get. When I get to write about the happy endings, it’s wonderful. But when I have to write the tough stories, the stories about dogs that were tortured, neglected or abandoned, it is more and more difficult. However, I know it is important to write those stories, because that is how people remember and that’s how we keep the awareness alive. And most importantly, that’s how I speak for the dogs that can’t speak for themselves.
The dog above is from a place called Dutch Creek Kennels which is located is Westmoreland, Tenn. Police have charged Brittany Bergez, owner of the dogs and kennel with animal cruelty and neglect.
This was a kennel that kept very large dogs, some mastiffs and others and they were kept in horrible, dirty and unsafe conditions. According to Sumner County sheriff’s deputies, the large dogs were locked in their pens full of feces with only 1/2 bottle of water for three dogs.
A gentleman named Michael Cummins told the deputies that he had worked for the kennels for up until about a month ago and thought the dogs were in pretty good shape, except for a couple of dogs that tried to bite him. He beleived that there was some dog fighting activity going on at the farm.
According to the deputies, some of the dogs are scarred, have matted eyes and one even has a broken leg. The dogs were removed from the barn and taken to a place where they house police canines. It is hoped that the dogs will be moved to more spacious quarters in the very near future. Right now volunteers are caring for these dogs. It is hoped that in the near future a judge will allow the dogs to be adopted. Of the 44 dogs that were removed from the barn/kennels, 19 of them are mastiffs. These dogs truly require a lot of room as they can grow to be very large.
Well, at least we know that there are now 44 dogs less that are living in such terrible conditions. We can only hope that the lives these dogs have in the future are much better that what they had experienced at the hands of Ms. Bergez. I wonder how she would feel locked in a pen filled with feces…wouldn’t that be an “just” punishment?
Check out a prior entry where I speak about the Mastiff!!!
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