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Default Dog Dilemma...

I need advice about what i consider to be an animal abuse situation...

At the barn where i work the wife of the owner is one of those people who always has a "thing" then one day gets tired of it and drops it to move on-to a different thing. Unfortunately, her "things" always involve living creatures. First, it was lessons and showing. She recruited alot of kids into the barn, set them up either with barn horses in training (none finished) or helped their parents buy them horses (again, none finished) then made huge promises about breed shows and championships, etc. Next thing you know, she is standing up clients for lessons, blaming horses when kids don't place at shows or simply not showing up for days. Eventually i inherited all of her kids into my program.

Next it was Halter Horses. Her husband buys her this Tellusive HYPP N/H (basically a freggin expensive horse that has a genetic disorder where it constantly builds muscle). She takes it to one show, wins reserve then forgets about it. The mare eventually dies b/c she's too heavy from not being worked to keep her muscles in check, she didn't get her medicine on a regular basis and her knee blows out.

To the problem at hand...
One of her things is breeding corgis, which anyone who has them knows they are people oriented herd dogs meaning they need human contact and exercise. At one time, she had upwards of 40 in a 1/10 acre lot divided into 5ft kennels sometimes with as many as 6 puppies or 4 grown dogs to a kennel. She hired me to feed them and clean their kennels twice a day but at least once a week there was no food to feed them and she stopped paying me. I complained to her husband that i was worried about the dogs (who are so stressed that they have and will literally kill one another through the fences) and the next week she told me she wouldn't need me anymore.

Now, she and her husband are separated (thank goodness) but most of the dogs are still there. Shes given away some but still has probably 20 that probably only get fed a couple times a week. They're covered in fleas and twice last summer we had to rescue two behind her back that were dying from anemia bc of the amount of ticks on them. Last week, 4 of the dogs jumped on and killed another dog. Animal control has been anomously called a couple times i know but local police rarely get involved with animal rights (we're a pretty small town so making waves is usually discouraged).

My question is does anyone have any idea short of just turning them all loose under the cover of darkness (which ive considered) to help these poor dogs?
 
 
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Yes, Sounds like animal abuse.
If you don't want to make waves, these people will.
Don't know your location, so I've listed them all;






Golden Gate Pembroke Welsh Corgi Fanciers, Inc.
Northern California (Redding to Fresno), a little into Nevada, Tahoe area
Rescue Contact:
Amy McNab
831-455-9842
Email: pwc_rescue@hotmail.com

Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club of Southern California, Inc.
Southern California only
Rescue Contact:
rescuequestions@pwccsc.org

Lakeshore Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club, Inc.
Serving the Midwest Great Lakes area (IL, WI, MI, IN, MN, IA and Omaha, NB)
Rescue Contact:
Yvette Huesler
11036 Hwy O
Athens, WI 54411-9020
Phone: (715) 675-9867
allcorgis@gmail.com

Lakeshore Rescue Intake
Nancy Wolfe
3475 Souleton Road
Elkton, MI 48731
989-375-4212
hillside@midmich.net

Cascade Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club
Washington State, Alaska, some No. Oregon, some Idaho, some Montana, Western Canada
Rescue Contact:
Mary Day
5447 89th Ave.
Olympia, WA 98513
360-456-1226
stlh20@earthlilnk.net

Columbia River Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club
Covers Oregon and Vancouver, WA and sometimes Southwestern Washington and the Longview area.
Rescue Contact:
Jan Harvey
503-244-3029
janss@teleport.com

Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club of The Potomac
Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania WVA, DE, some NJ
Rescue Contact:
Susan.H.Geiger
P.O. Box 196
Chatham, PA 19318
610-869-0384
oucorgis@yahoo.com

North Texas Pembroke Welsh Corgi Fanciers
Northern Texas, Southern Oklahoma
Rescue Contact:
Lindy Bezdek
972-317-0067
lindybezdek@aol.com

Greater Houston Pembroke Welsh Corgi Fanciers
Lower and Middle Texas (from south of Waco, west toward El Paso and east toward Houston, western Louisiana)
Rescue Contact:
Kandee Bishea
P.O. Box 1139
Johnson City, TX 78636
830-868-4233
kandee@moment.net

Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club of Greater Atlanta, Inc.
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee
Rescue Contact:
PWC Rescue League, Inc.
Hilda Towery
91 Willard Dr.
Marietta, GA 30066
770-428-8919
majtowery@bellsouth.net

Mayflower Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club
New England (ME, NH, VT, NY, MA, RI, CT, NJ)

Rescue Contact:
Lisa Burns
508-362-2868
sndyneck@aol.com

Ohio Valley Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club, Inc.
Ohio up to an above Columbus, southern Michigan, eastern Indiana (from Indy south and futher north), TN
Rescue Contact:
Neena Van Camp
513-385-4356


Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club of the Western Reserve
northern Ohio, Michigan, western PA, eastern Indiana
Rescue Contact:
Deborah Brooks


Palmetto Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club, Inc.
North Carolina, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee
Rescue Contact :
Debbie Campbell
P.O. Box 1732
Liberty, NC 27298
336-685-9893
Palmetto Rescue Information

Gaitway Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club of Greater St. Louis
Missouri
Rescue Contact:
Diane Sprung
314-962-9069
wildifox@msn.com

If you are unable to find a rescue organization that serves your area, contact the PWCCA National Rescue Chairman:
Mary Day Email: stlh20@earthlink.net
5447 89th Ave.
Olympia, WA 98513
360-456-1226
 
 
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thx for the resources. im in NC so the closest one listed is in TN, i will contact hem today to see what they believe my options to be.
 
 
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