The Lee County Sheriff’s Office says a man is facing charges after he admitted to stabbing his own dog with a pocket knife.
An animal rights bill moving through the Alabama State House has caught the attention of animal rights groups across the state The legislation, proposed by Senator Jack Williams of Mobile would give authority in animal abuse cases that involve working animals and animal enterprises to the State Department of Agriculture. Animal rights and humane groups fear the law would strip…
Pell City Police DepartmentPELL CITY, Ala. (AP) – Authorities in Alabama say they’ve arrested a woman whose mobile home was filled with feces, dead carcasses and 50 malnourished animals. News outlets report Donna Mullins was arrested Friday and charged with obstruction of governmental operations. Police say more charges are expected. Pell City Police Chief Paul Irwin says officers responded to…
FORNEY, Ala. (AP) – Authorities in Alabama have charged a woman with animal cruelty after they say deputies found nearly 50 animals, including some dead dogs, in “inhumane conditions” at her home. The Gadsden Times reports Cherokee County Chief Deputy Josh Summerford says Ruth Pauline Staggs was charged with 47 counts of cruelty to animals on Tuesday. He says Cherokee…
Three recent animal deaths, and one confirmed dog poisoning has happened on the same street in the Clairewood neighborhood of Tallassee. Residents say they are afraid for their pets and fear walking them down the street. Mayor John Hammock says that if caught these criminals may be charged with felonies. The situation has even caught the attention of The Humane…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– Two Dallas County women say dogs are being abused in Perry County and they want authorities to do something about it. Beth Leslie and Danielle Barnett say they stumbled on a case of animal cruelty unlike anything they’ve ever seen before. They say they found animal carcasses inside of a dog pen with a dog…
An Alabama mail carrier has been charged after authorities say she fed at least one dog meatballs that contained nails. 47-year-old Susanna Dawn Burhans was arrested Thursday and charged with aggravated cruelty to animals. The U.S. Postal Service worker was arrested after a joint investigation by the Madison County Sheriff’s Office and the Postal Service determined she fed the nail-laced…
Authorities say a woman claimed dogs could fly before tossing a small dog about 30 feet off a South Florida bridge, injuring the animal. Capt. David Walesky of Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control told the Palm Beach Post that the 8-year-old Jack Russell Terrier mix dislocated a leg in the fall Wednesday from a bridge in Riviera Beach….
A Montgomery woman has been sentenced to 125 days behind bars for the death of her 3-month-old puppy last month. Court records show 23-year-old Jessica Pruette was found guilty last week of cruelty to animals. Montgomery Humane Society Officer Robert Bryant said he went to Pruette’s home June 1 after receiving a tip about a dead puppy in a backyard….
