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Dogs Abandoned After Owners Are Evicted

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A woman from Butler County says her neighbors abandoned two dogs and the animals are in desperate need of help.

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Stefanie VonUsselmann

Rittman, OH

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May 28, 2006
 
I can't believe they did that! They could of gave them to someone! They could have taken them to the humane society and said they couldn't keep them anymore so they wouldn't have to go through this misery
ben

Volant, PA

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May 22, 2007
 
I had some neighbors who left a total of 9 cats behind. We fed them until we had to move. Most were not spayed or neutered. My wife and I took them to a place called Tiger Ranch. It cost $5 each, which isn't too bad. I don't know how people can leave animals behind and not take any responsibilty. Out of sight-out of mind, I guess.
Rebecca

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Jan 16, 2008
 
Could you please tell me how to get a hold of tiger ranch. I have 7 cats. I love them. I cannot affort to get them fixed. I need help!
Emmy

Houston, TX

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Feb 22, 2008
 
Tiger Ranch? I had the information once, the Butler Humane Society gave it to me. Maybe if you call they still will give it out.
Just so you know, it is in Allegheny County. NORTHERN Allegheny County, but still. It was very nice and I was pleased with the heart of the people there.
Someone dumped 3 kittens at our house a few years ago and we tried for about 2 weeks to find homes for them. The humane society said they were now 'pets' because we didn't call immediately and we needed to pay $25 each for their care.
Tiger Ranch in PA Raided

Lafayette, NJ

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Mar 13, 2008
 
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20080313_De...
Posted on Thu, Mar. 13, 2008
‘Death camp’ for cats found near Pittsburgh
By Amy Worden
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Humane agents raided a property north of Pittsburgh tonight, finding hundreds of dead and dying cats in what may be the largest animal seizure in Pennsylvania history.
Howard Nelson, director of the Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania SPCA, which orchestrated the raid, said as many as 1,000 cats could ultimately be removed from Tiger Ranch, located in Tarentum, about 20 miles from Pittsburgh.
"It's a death camp," said Nelson, speaking by cell phone as he helped gather emaciated and diseased cats crammed into trailers and other outbuildings across the 30-acre property. "I see cats that can't walk, and dead cats in litter boxes and lying by food bowls."
Nelson said many of the cats have severe respiratory illnesses and others are infected with diseases that cause blindness.
A team of more than 100 people, including law enforcement officers, humane agents, veterinarians and volunteers, entered the property about 7:15 p.m., Nelson said.
What they found stunned even veteran humane agents.
"The vast number of animals and the degree of neglect is astounding," said Reba McDonald, a humane officer with the SPCA.
The raid was expected to last all night and into tomorrow as agents worked to trap the cats and deliver them to medical teams for assistance.
An emergency shelter was set up at the Clarion County SPCA to handle the vast number of animals.
Humane officers said the owner, Linda M. Bruno, would be charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty.
Bruno was at the site when the raid started and was being questioned late tonight by state police troopers, Nelson said.
Nelson, speaking 90 minutes after the raid began, said Bruno was already facing 13 counts of cruelty connected to the first 17 cats seized.
Tiger Ranch - which, on its Web site, www.tigerranch.org , bills itself as "a cat sanctuary where mercy triumphs" - took in thousands of stray and unwanted cats a year from individuals and high-kill shelters from nine states.
But Nelson called it "a classic hoarding situation."
Postings on Internet message boards suggest that rescues from as far away as Georgia shipped cats to Tiger Ranch and that Philadelphia rescues also sent cats there.
What a sad situation

Carnegie, PA

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Mar 14, 2008
 
Dear Hillary Clinton,

Please look into a nationwide regulation of
breeding domestic animals and regulations of neutering and spaying of them. plus a program for making animals lives more humane.
deni

Baton Rouge, LA

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Oct 16, 2009
 
i dunt kno sorry
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