Target: Utah County, Utah Attorney David O. Leavitt
Goal: Punish woman for allegedly allowing dogs to live in filth and do not allow her to own pets.
A woman allegedly stuffed fifteen dogs in bags and threw them inside her freezer. Another dog was found dead near their kennel, possibly as a result of neglect. Fourteen others were further removed from the home after they were reportedly discovered to be living in their own urine and feces. The woman allegedly responsible for this neglect needs to spend time in prison and be banned from having animals if she is found guilty of these crimes, so that other dogs will be less likely to endure the same fate.
Authorities stated that the dogs were aggressive and said two of the animals bit them. Sadly, they will not be able to be adopted out unless or until they can be trained to develop friendly manners toward humans. Past reports indicate that police searched the woman’s home in 2018 when 14 other dogs were thought to be living in similar conditions. Surprisingly, only 10 of the animals were taken from the household. Sign this petition to demand none of the dogs rescued from the current situation be returned to her and to also insist she receive a strict legal sentence if it is found she committed this inexcusable animal cruelty.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear County Attorney Leavitt,
Fourteen dogs were reportedly living in their own waste inside a woman’s messy home. She allegedly also stored fifteen dead dogs in plastic bags inside her freezer. Another dog was said to be deceased inside the home. She must be arrested and no longer be legally allowed to have pets if it is found these allegations are true to better ensure other animals will not be harmed.
According to authorities, the dogs’ behaviors were similar to those of feral animals, likely because they were never taught how to properly interact with people. Unfortunately, the local shelter will not be able to put the dogs up for adoption unless they learn how to act more amicably toward humans. If this cannot be accomplished, these dogs will likely be euthanized. It is unconscionable that the dogs recently discovered may have suffered under this woman’s care, since deputies removed many others from her home in 2018 after investigating a separate animal cruelty incident. Instead of letting her keep four of those dogs, they should have all been taken away if mistreatment was suspected.
For these reasons, I demand you suggest this woman suffer appropriate consequences and that she no longer be allowed around animals if it is found any dogs suffered or died while under her care.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Mikapon
The internet is so full of crap that it requires time and effort to find anything useful but while I was searching for more info about the woman I came across this story at another site and the comments are so different than the comments posted here.
Reading the comments here made me so upset and think so little of the people posting them but my faith in humanity was restored after reading the comments posted at the other site; people were sympathetic to this 74 year old woman’s situation, more in favor of getting her the mental health help she needs and help to care for the animals as opposed to torturing or killing her. She’s 74 years old…. I recently lost my 75 yr old mother to covid and I still can’t think or talk about it without crying …I love my mom dearly and although she seemed mostly healthy before getting covid, at her age, it was too much for her to just take care of herself, let alone the 2 dogs she had. One of my mom’s rescues was a bit too aggressive so my mom held off on adopting more dogs but once he calmed down a little my mom had plans to adopt as many of the elderly, unwanted dogs as she could find because she was so against allowing them to die alone in a cage at a shelter….which is why it’s so f*cked up that my mom died alone in a hospital, cut off from her children. ;( ~ I remember telling my mom about a small dog that was living in one of the cages at the vet where I worked because she had been grossly neglected by her owners who had brought her in for euthanasia. The vet had taken her from the owners but instead of euthanizing her he nursed her back to health; she was so small and mostly bald but only a couple of years old. The plan was for my mom to foster her until a forever home could be found but nobody wanted to adopt a dog with so many problems so my mom adopted “Happy” and even though she wasn’t expected to live for more than a couple of years, she ended up living an additional 16 years. ps. Before you condemn an elderly woman for keeping animals in such filthy conditions keep in mind that she was living there also. I see several bags of dog food and bowls full of kibble and water in the pictures but I bet her cupboards and fridge were almost empty.
This is the link to that other website that has comments posted by compassionate people. Highlight the entire link and then either copy and paste it to a new browser or right-click on it after highlighting and a menu will drop down where you will be given the option to go to the website
https://www.ksl.com/article/50369077/utah-police-remove-dozens-of-dogs-from-home-find-dead-ones-in-freezer