Rowan Pound / Morehead KY * Please Read

May 8, 2007

* In a message dated 5/5/2007 10:29:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, juliatat (@) writes: Rowan County Dog Pound 305 Bullfork Road Morehead, Kentucky 40351 *Phone: 606-784-4930*Email: juliatat (@) * Petfinder Address: http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/KY224.html Everything Mary describes is TRUE. Why am I constantly BEGGING for rescues to COME HERE and SEE with their own eyes what we are dealing with in this community???? I have said time and time again, we need rescue to come here and get dogs. We get a few out, just a few ,and we are grateful for that BUT

each day MORE and MORE and MORE come in and they leave the severely aggressive dogs to rip the smaller and weaker dogs apart. We find females on the male side and males on the female side of the pound. IS IT SO HARD TO CHECK THE GENDER OF THESE DOGS BEFORE SHOVING THEM IN THE VERY SMALL RUNS???? We cannot do this alone. I took 5 dogs out last week. Suzy took a litter of 4 pups. I guarantee more dogs came in than 5 adults and 4 pups. Mary and Deb both called me today crying and extremely upset over what they saw. I am glad they came, I am glad they saw it. Now they can verify what I have been saying all this time. I feel horrible about Old Max and it sickens me it took this to make everyone realize what I have been saying. When I saw him Tuesday he was OK, depressed, but certainly not ripped up, or I would have taken him out myself. WATCH THE VIDEO ON: WWW.DOGPOUNDKY.COM Even then you will get only a mere idea of how crowded and horrific Rowan Pound can be for these animals. Some people may think I've been overly dramatic...NO...I'm not dramatic. I am dead serious. We need rescue to come to Morehead and get dogs. We need the county officials to LISTEN to us, the voting citizens, when we say put that aggressive dog down before it kills one of these sweet dogs. We need hours more appropriate to rescue. We need far too much to list here. We have frontline at the pound, the workers don't sue it. We have boradatelle but it's too "hard" for the workers to give it. Many dogs do not even have intake paperwork on them. Some dogs do not even get the parvo/distemepr shots. Our few hands cannot do this alone. We have NO room at home, vets are always full, vet bills out of control,

AND MOST SHAMEFULLY WE DO NOT HAVE LOCAL FOSTERS! I have begged everywhere locally for fosters, no luck at all. Many people out of state offer to foster and that goes back to we have NO WHERE to hold dogs to get them transported to out of state foster homes. I honestly do not know HOW to make that statement ANY clearer. We do not have the money or resources to get them there ourselves. Suzy and I barely scrape by a living. Everything we have goes to these animals and it isn't enough. SHAME ON ROWAN COUNTY, SHAME ON IT'S UNCARING APATHETIC CITIZENS, SHAME ON IT'S "LEADERS". SHAME ON ALL OF THEM FOR LEAVING US TO CLEAN

UP THEIR MESSES. Old Max needs vet bill help. He must live. He deserves to live with a little comfort before he leaves this world. He has apparently laid in that run since being attacked some time after I left Tuesday afternoon. I personally cannot be at the pound every single day. The workers have walked past Max and known he was not able to move for days. They LET HIM LAY THERE TO DIE. Mary was even told by the weekend worker that dog is going to die. IF YOU CAN HELP WITH HIS BILL, please contact Mary. Max is at her vets who kindly stayed late to accept Max and get him started on treatment. Mary and Deb, I am sorry you have been so traumatized by what you saw. But thank you for having the guts and strength to report it! Thank you for coming. Thank you for SEEING AND THANK YOU FOR GETTING THAT POOR DOG TO THE VETS TODAY. Julia Sharp. P.S. I am busting my arse every single day right along side the other handful of volunteers and getting no where in this backwoods community. PLEASE CROSSPOST!!! Slideshow | Print at Home | Order Prints | Save to: My Photos or My Computer Click a

photo to view a larger version on Photos. See links above for more options. Hi all, let me start off by saying that Rowan Co Shelter needs immediate rescue help! If anyone can go get some of these poor animals...PLEASE, PLEASE DO!!! I, along with another rescue, Sadie's Place of Louisa, KY went to this shelter today to pull a dog which had been sponsored by another rescue. We arrived around 10:00 this morning. I was devastated at the number of dogs that were crammed into each run. There were 6-7 dogs in most runs....some dogs that were 70 lbs were being housed in the same runs as dogs that were 20 lbs. Old dogs were being housed with puppies and young dogs....it seemed everywhere I looked, dogs were fighting and growling. Almost as soon as we got out, we witnessed a fight between 2 male dogs. we went to separate them, and one actually came toward me growling. As I walked down the kennels one by one, I was devastated at the sheer number of dogs that were in these kennels.....then i realized I was only seeing 1 side of the shelter! I walked passing each kennel and visualizing all the stray, sick & depressed animals looking back begging for help. Many, many of these dogs have mange, bite wounds & scars from attacks. As we came upon the last run, I noticed a poor old dog laying lifeless off to the side of the

kennel. I thought he was dead....this poor dog has a LARGE tear across the top of his head from ear to ear, and so many puncture wounds to his legs & chest, I couldn't count them all. There was infection oosing from every wound on his elderly body. The smell from the infection/bacteria was almost unbearable. There were also MAGGOTS crawling on the head wounds. As we got down to try to move this boy, We were appalled to notice that this dog was STILL ALIVE!

We had to carry him out on a make shift stretcher as he couldn't walk or even stand. He would scream out in pain if we even tried to move him. It was absolutely pitiful! This dog was a VERY OLD dog who had very few teeth left, and had ben apparently trying to fight for his life against 6 other YOUNG, LARGE

dogs who had almost claimed his life. We rushed this boy to a vet clinic and the vet said the next 48 will be crucial for this poor senior. He has so much trauma and infection, he will be lucky if he survives the night. This poor dog has laid there for at least 3 DAYS in this condition! I was so furious when I learned this....it is a shame this dog has suffered this long and people walking by him daily!!! As we went and were leaving to rush him to the clinic, there were yet more fights going on as we pulled out of the parking lot. This will haunt me tonight

wondering if there will be another dog that will end up dying or in the shape that poor Old Max is now in. Apparently, not too long ago, there were 2 aggressive dogs that LITERALLY tore another IN HALF!!! And just the other day, some puppies were dropped in the drop off kennel with 2 pit bulls, and needless to say, they were ripped to shreds! This can't continue to go on! We pulled 2 other dogs aside from this Old Max...I have enclosed pictures of wounds the other dogs have below.

The pictures are graphic! I regret that I did not have my camera to take pictures of Old Max....He was in a

SHOCKING state. I hope (if he survives the weekend) to get to the vet's office to take pictures of him Monday. But please see below....this is what the poor animals are enduring at this shelter!!! Apparently, Julia and the rescue people in the area have tried to get help from the county judge to NO AVAIL! He needs to be contacted immediately and be made to stop the

suffering of these animals! I have included his name, phone # and email below....so PLEASE take a minute to call or write on behalf of these suffering animals! This is a 12 run shelter, and the best I could tell, they have about 75-80 dogs crammed in these 12 kennels!!! If anyone has any questions regarding this email, please feel free to contact me at 606-424-7082 or Debbie Hinkle from Sadie's Place Rescue at 606-673-3931.....please help these dogs!!!! Thank you for your time, Mary THIS IS OLD MAX....NOW FIGHTING TO LIVE http://search.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=8323825 rowan co shelter link http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/KY224.html CO JUDGE EXECUTIVE: JIM NICKELL 606-784-6188 jnickell50 (@) 100_0873 100_0871 100_0870 100_0880 100_0883 100_0885 100_0886 100_0888 100_0889 The larger versions of these photos will be available until August 03, 2007 (90 days) Share your pictures with PhotoMail from Mail. Learn More Go to Photos Due to AOL bouncing messages with links, remove spaces to visit the link belowMy websitehttp :// www. freewebs. com/ juliatat/Must listen! The Animals Anthem! Beautiful!http :// www.

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