Donation assistance for rescued CA shelties

Any further updates???

I wish they would post new pictures of these shelties all cleaned up!

I still wonder how they are doing.

Also, pay day is Friday and the boys and I are planning another donation!:yes:
My heart just hurts for the older ones. I have always wanted older shelties when I adopted. Love their calmness and sweet temperaments.

Any updates would be appreciated! :winkgrin:
 
Bless those ladies cleaning up those poor dogs - I'm sure they feel so much better now. What a crazy story. That fire was the best thing to have happened to these dogs.
 
I think the blog is a bit melodramatic. No mention about the ticks and fleas - you don't get them from a house fire. Nor that she had permission for 4 dogs, not 61. A comparison to a boarding kennel is ridiculous - a boarding kennel is a temporary arrangement and, because they are registered, are governed by regulations, subject to inspections and owner scrutiny. Yes there will be backlash from the owner's friends, but regardless the dogs are being cared for by these rescues at no benefit or profit to themselves and its great if people are willing to help the rescue places out.
 
I think it is indeed in the middle someplace. The dogs went from great to dental problems to lots of husbandry problems and health problems to the last note called them close to feral. The volunteers suggested they responded well (not feral). I don't like to see the legal system and the media being manipulated to demonize someone unless they truly are animal abusers.

The real fault is that the breeder (aged 92 really?) should have placed all but a couple animals and retired from breeding and maintaining all but a couple animals years ago. She lost control of things. She was not beating, burning, fighting, starving, otherwise actively abusing cruelly and violently the animals. It was hoarding, neglect, loss of control of the situation.

I don't think she should be labelled and charged as someone like Michael Vic or the lady they mentioned from New Jersey or the lady here where I live who intentionally was killing and doing purposeful harm. There's either a different charge or a lesser charge for something like this. I don't think she is blameless or should be given a free pass for this situation, but I don't think she is the malicious evil villain either. I would call her an old lady who lost control and didn't care for the animals the way should have and thus neglect over violent intentional cruelty. That's just my opinion. She should have the dogs taken and placed. She should have some charge for this situation. I don't think she should be portrayed as an evil cruel horrible person.
 
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I think Jeff is right...the true is somewhere in between.

Having seen the pictures of the groomer volunteers many of whom I recognized, I believe that these dogs were neglected. Perhaps not to the point of cruelty, but neglected.

I know at 60 it is difficult for me to manage the grooming needs of my 2 shelties. I cannot imagine trying to care for 61 at 92. If this elderly woman was a responsible breeder and dog lover, I would have expected her to rehome most of her dogs herself as her showing/breeding career and her life were coming to an end.

The picture of one of the dogs being put into the AC vehicle did show a relatively clean dog. But, I saw several other photos of the dogs where they looked very dirty and matted.

Whatever the true is, the dogs do need care and the rescues and volunteers have stepped up to help.
 
I totally agree that the blog was "a bit melodramatic". But, I also believe many of the so called news accounts are just as "melodramatic". The problem, as I see it, is that each of us chooses the "melodrama" WE deem most accurate and run with it as gospel. All this does is propagate the fictions along with the truths. I just believe that such topics deserve a bit more critical thinking on our parts.
 
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