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Tortured dogs discovered inside of St. Louis house

On Tuesday, the discovery of a dead dog partially hanging from the window of a vacant home on Wells Avenue in St. Louis, Mo. alerted police to a horrific case of animal cruelty.

According to Stltoday.com, what authorities discovered inside of the graffiti-laden house was gruesome. The bodies of five dogs, mutilated and tortured, were in various states of decay throughout the house.

The deceased dogs all appeared to be Pit bulls.

Stray Rescue of St. Louis was called in to assist the authorities with this disturbing case. Randy Grim of Stray Rescue describes the interior of the house as a "torture chamber",

 “This isn’t just abuse. This is like scary torture, strangulation, peeling off the fur. It’s like one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my life.”

Individuals assisting in the clean-up effort describe dogs who had been choked, burned and hanged. Electrical cords and chains used to strangle the dogs were also discovered.

According to a neighbor, the vacant house was recently a haven to drug dealers and prostitutes. The dogs were allegedly kept at the house to keep the police at bay.

But today, all of the people who had utilized the house are gone and the dogs used to "protect" those individuals' illicit activities, are dead.

Right now, Stray Rescue is offering up a $5000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individuals who are responsible for this deplorable crime. Penny Eims

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South Africa Rhino Horn Seizure Leads To Arrest After Anonymous Tip

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Police officers tipped off by an anonymous informer forced their way into a Johannesburg apartment where they found 10 rhinoceros horns and an elephant tusk and arrested a Vietnamese man, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

Spokesman Vish Naidoo said the man will appear Friday in court on charges that include illegal possession of rhino horn. The man had refused to let police in when they arrived at the apartment late Tuesday, so they forced open his door, Naidoo said, adding more arrests in the case were possible.

Rhino poaching in South Africa, home to most of the world's rhinos, and across Africa has reached crisis levels. Major markets for the horn are China and Vietnam, where some believe it has medicinal qualities.

Last month, South Africa tightened hunting rules to try to combat illegal horn trading. South African officials take into consideration whether the countries in which foreign applicants live have sufficient laws against illegal rhino horn trading. Vietnam is seen as having lax laws on importing horns.

Police on Tuesday also found several travel documents from different Asian countries and 5 million rand (about $625,000) in cash in the apartment, Naidoo said.

So far this year, more than 200 rhinos have been poached in South Africa, nearly half the record 448 poached all last year. But arrests are also increasing, with 165 so far this year compared to 232 for all last year.

Naidoo said public awareness of the poaching problem and cooperation with authorities is increasing.

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Senior Centers Take Four-Legged Family Members

There is an increasing amount of research showing the physical and psychological health benefits of having a pet. So it should come as no surprise to find that a growing number of senior living centers are allowing residents to bring along their animal companions. Read on for how animals are changing the lives of the elderly. 

Associated Press, Sue Manning 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shirlee and Nathan “Nick” Horowitz faced one serious health crisis after another before their doctor said they had to move into an assisted living center. They had only one condition — they weren’t going anywhere without their dog.

Hundreds of retirement communities across the country now allow seniors to live with their pets and more and more keep house pets that provide the benefits without the responsibility.

As many as 40 percent of people ask about pets when calling A Place for Mom, the nation’s largest senior living referral service, said Tami Cumings, its senior vice president.

When the service was founded 12 years ago, pets were seldom considered when it came time for older people to enter rest homes or skilled nursing homes, Cumings said.

Then came the boom in independent living centers, assisted living complexes and memory centers for Alzheimer’s patients. At the same time, some people have latched on to studies that show pets can help their owners’ health physically and psychologically, saidLori Kogan, a professor of veterinary medicine at Colorado State University.

Shirlee Horowitz and her husband chose the Regency Grand in West Covina, about 20 miles east of Los Angeles. Meals are provided, as is housekeeping and transportation. Medication management and help with dressing and bathing can be arranged. But most of all, their collie Barney was welcome.

“I worried more about him because he had a big yard before,” said Shirlee Horowitz, 77. “But he has adjusted to this better than we have.”

Barney’s friendliness has made it easier for the couple to meet their neighbors, and his walks have helped them get to know the complex.

Living centers usually prefer smaller pets and put the limit at two. Not all pets are dogs and cats either, Cumings said. They get a lot of calls about birds and fish, too.

As much as 30 percent of the residents at the Regency Grand have pets at any one time, said Leah Hynes, Regency Grand’s marketing associate. Seldom do the elderly move in with puppies or kittens, she said. Most of the time, their animals are older, too.

One of the residents lost her husband of many decades. She wanted a pet so Hynes helped her choose a cat. They named it Annie and had the cat spayed, vaccinated and microchipped.

“It was like bringing a new baby home. She had the apartment set up and couldn’t wait to have the companionship and someone to care for again,” she said.

Residents who don’t have pets of their own are encouraged to share Alley, the office cat. At the center’s memory care center, a dog, a cat and two bunnies live with a couple of parakeets and a lot of fish.

Pet-friendly living centers are still in the minority, so people who don’t like animals will easily find centers that say “No Pets Allowed.”

But some living centers are cultivating small menageries.

At the Silverado Senior Living center in Encinitas, 25 miles north of San Diego, residents have miniature horses and for several months every year, a very young kangaroo, said Steve Winner, co-founder and chief of culture for the company’s 23 centers in six states, including Illinois and Texas.

They’ve had a pot-bellied pig, chinchillas, guinea pigs and even a llama until he got too big, said Winner, who estimated that 20 percent of their new residents move in with pets.

When it’s time to walk the dogs, a staff member might play “Who Let the Dogs Out” by Baha Men as a signal that it’s time to put leashes on the dogs.

Kogan founded a prototype program called Pets Forever, a Colorado State class where students earn credits while helping elderly and disabled pet owners care for their animals.

As people grow old, they lose relatives and friends, maybe some of their mobility, their jobs and homes. “So pets become increasingly important,” Kogan said. The relationship between a person and a pet may be the only thing an older person has left, she said.

“Clients will often say their pets are the reason they try to continue living,” she said. “These pets really give them meaning and value in life, a purpose for getting up in the morning.”

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Exotic Animal Park Is A Disaster Waiting To Happen (Video)

GW Exotic Animal Park in central Oklahoma has 200 tigers and more than 1,000 other animals. Its owner, Joe Schreibvogel, has been in the news many times for running a substandard zoo and allowing dangerous interactions between children and baby tigers. But Schreibvogel’s recent erratic behavior before Ohio lawmakers, has advocates worried that GW Exotic is a disaster waiting to happen.

Joe Schreibvogel traveled to Ohio in April 2012 to lobby against Senate Bill 310, the bill to restrict private ownership of dangerous animals kept in captivity. The bill is a result of the Zanesville animal disaster that left 49 exotic animals slaughtered and the owner of the facility, Terry Thompson dead.

Schreibvogel told legislators that Terry Thompson was “murdered by animal advocates to advance an agenda to ban private ownership of dangerous exotic pets.” In truth Thompson released the wild animals and shot himself. Schreibvogel also said if he was faced with a similar situation he would act as Thompson did.

Sensing urgency with GW Exotic, the Humane Society of the United States has been conducting an undercover investigation into the animal park since last summer.

Here are some of their findings:

• * At least five tigers died at the facility during the investigation – two had been sick for months and a 6-week-old cub being raised inside the GW owner’s home sustained head injuries and had to be euthanized.


• * In August 2011, according to GW’s assistant park manager, three people suffered tiger bites at a fair, including one child whose bite became infected.


• On Sept. 3, 2011, a tiger reportedly bit a young girl on her leg during the “play cage” portion of a tour.


• * On Sept. 11, 2011, a tiger cub scratched a young child while the child was posing for a picture.


• * On Sept. 17, 2011, a 20-week-old tiger named Dre knocked down and bit a small child. * GW’s park manager told staff that the boy was bitten and scratched and that he would be bruised but that he (the manager) had “smoothed things over” with the mother and had her “sign the papers.” The next day, the same tiger was used for photo shoots at GW and photographers posed a small child bottle feeding the tiger.

* “GW Exotics may have more dangerous exotic animals than any other roadside zoo in the nation—with approximately five times as many predators as the late Terry Thompson of Zanesville, Ohio,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States. “At this facility, children are allowed to play with tigers as if they are domestic kittens, rather than wild cats soon to mature into the some of the world’s most lethal carnivores.”

HSUS has filed complaints with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asking for an official investigation. by Sharon Seltzer

 

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