Winter 2025 Volume 4 Issue 4
PROVIDING SECOND CHANCES TO ANIMALS SINCE 1870
You Helped Us Save More Than 200 Animals From a Hoarder In the final days of July, our Animal Cruelty Task Force (ACT) performed its biggest rescue in more than a decade. Nothing could’ve prepared our ACT team for the scene they encountered when they entered the house in Christian County. The space was completely overrun with animals. Dogs were on countertops, hiding in furniture, and crammed into wire cages. Cats peered down from the top of kitchen cabinets. The ammonium levels were off the charts, and animal waste was piled high in every room. Most of the dogs were fearful and seemed like they had never been handled, so catching them became a challenge for the ACT team. They worked as quickly as they could, trying to get the dogs out of the unair-conditioned house as the temperatures climbed into the 90s. Though the goal had been to get all the animals out of the house in one day, it soon became clear that the ACT team would need to return the following day due to the sheer number. The following day, the team made the three-and-a-half-hour drive again to rescue the remaining animals. The property owner agreed to surrender the majority of the animals, but a warrant was served by the Christian County Sheriff’s Office for the more than 30 animals that the owner attempted to retain on the second day. As the team finished loading the animals into the rescue trailers, they calculated the total number: 224. (Continued on Page 3) hsmo.org | longmeadowrescueranch.org | amcma.org | StLLostPets.org
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