Breaking! Emergency rescue: 33 dogs and cats living in desperate conditions in a trailer. ARC’s team is rescuing them in Operation Dead End.
33 dogs and cats in desperate conditions in a trailer.
It’s Labor Day weekend. People across the U.S. are barbecuing, enjoying the last days of summer.
But today, in Hardeman County, Tennessee, at the very end of a road that’s so bad it’s impassable, on the scene of a trailer that’s unlivable, it’s a grim scene of suffering for the 29 dogs and 4 cats who have been living in painful, cruel conditions here. Most are confined in a squalid trailer and cages. A few dogs are running loose outside.
This is Operation Dead End.
We received an urgent request for help from local law enforcement — this is a cruelty case, so we will be rescuing every animal on the scene and collecting and documenting evidence for cruelty prosecution.
Eleanor is just one of them.
It’s painful, almost, to look at her. She’s desperately thin and anemic, losing fur, parasite-ridden, her skin raw and inflamed. And saddest of all are her eyes.
She looks as if she is giving up.
Emergency Rescue In Progress
There are puppies, around eight weeks old, who are almost lifeless, just standing there, zoned out.
One of the dogs has at least one broken bone.
The cats are living in filthy cages, surrounded by maggots and their own waste.
The floor is rotting out, and ARC’s Field Team needs to space out and step carefully. Even the plywood walkways placed down across the floor are urine-soaked and rotting.
The dogs are weak but, still, they need out so desperately that many of them are lining up at the door to be carried out.
Every survivor from this property is being rescued by Animal Rescue Corps and will receive lifesaving and urgent medical, physical, and emotional care in ARC’s Rescue Center outside Nashville, Tennessee.
If you are in a position to help today with a gift to support ARC’s work, please do.
These dogs and cats, and so many others like them, have known immense heartbreak, neglect, cruelty, and suffering.
I just wanted to let y’all know that I live in Huntsville hospital and I here about this stuff all the time the time and energy and love you are all given to the dogs puppies and cats is heaven sent you guys are sent from God with out y’all they would have laid there in pain and died God bless you for what you do
Seeing stories like this makes me cry I can’t rap My head around why people do this I pray that all 33 make it back to health.
So glad to read after a years and months of misery, every single one of these animals will be given a chance at proper life for the remainder of their days. God bless you all.
Thank you for everything you do 🙏🏻 Can you please tell me why ? You don’t mention the owner name ? Do you only serve Tennessee area ? Because Debra Jane catledge !! Who ran a puppy mill was arrested with felony never to own or breed dogs again. Is in fact running another puppy mill. She also runs a kill pen for slaughter yard horses and ships them to slaughter. Se horses at risk of shipping. Is the name of her page . She preys on injured horses colts sick donkeys. Scamming people out of money. I have all kind of proof. Ty
Thank you so much, Penny. ARC works nationally and beyond — we’re very sorry to hear about the situation you describe. Please send us an email at reportcruelty@animalrescuecorps.org and include as much information as you have available (names, photos, addresses, your contact information, etc). Appreciate you advocating for these animals!