Emergency rescue of 54 animals in urgent need
The Animal Rescue Corps field team deployed yesterday for their fourth emergency rescue in 12 days. At the urgent request of law enforcement, the team headed out into the pouring rain in Gibson County, TN, for a heartbreaking double-hoarding case.
54 animals, including dogs and puppies and a single cat, suffered on two neighboring properties. Some penned, some loose, some indoors, some outdoors. They lived in a dark, dangerous environment and suffered from a palpable lack of care.
ARC worked with law enforcement on these side-by-side cases. One in city jurisdiction, one in county jurisdiction, a son and mother living next door to each other. Dogs here were loose, caged, penned, indoors, outdoors – the common thread is the suffering. With two sets of officials (city and county) and a SWAT team standing guard, ARC worked diligently to ensure the safety of the rescuers and the animals as the animals were removed from the property and taken into ARC’s care.
When there are many animals in crisis, communities often have no lifeline for those animals. Especially animals like these, suffering from a palpable lack of care, many in a dark and filthy trailer with rotting floors and no running water.
ARC will provide medical, physical, and social care to every single one of these dogs, puppies, and cat. Then, we will individually match them and transport them within our caring network of partner shelters and rescue groups to find loving families.
With your help, their new lives begin now.
And, if you are in a position to volunteer, please sign up today. Opportunities are always available in ARC’s Rescue Center outside Nashville, TN, as well as sometimes nationally and beyond. We sometimes offer travel stipends.
It is said this a place where people are often dumping there animals when they no longer want and they animals just gathered. The resident of the property is a 2 x widow in failing health himself who was struggling trying to feed the animals that kept just showing up. He reached out to local authorities about the problem and was given no help. He himself went without food to try to keep them fed. So where is his help? He was doing his best in a tragic situation. I love animals but where is our love for people also.