Leader of Rescue Charged with Animal Cruelty After 128 Dogs Found in U-Haul

I found this article lacking in that they did not indicate whether or not they contacted the rescue owner for a comment. Without her side of the story, it is easy to judge her badly. Yes, she should have known better than to transport them in such a way, but maybe the only other choice would have been to leave some behind to be destroyed. How does one choose which to take, and which to leave behind. She drove all the way across the country to rescue these dogs, if she just wanted to "hoard" animals, she likely could have found plenty right in her own backyard. On another note, it would seem that if one is moving cross country in a minivan/u-haul trailer, you might want to avoid Tennesee, they apparently stop these type vehicles on suspicion of drug trafficking. Talk about profiling!

People are real idiots and should have to suffer just like those poor animals were made to suffer. I hate people who abuse innocent, helpless creatures of all kinds that only want to have us love and care for them. We as superior beings know the difference between right and wrong but yet people act brain dead all of the time. Sometimes i am ashamed to call people "human beings" because they act worse than animals.

I am aghast & practically speechless after reading this story! How could anyone be so heartless & at the same time, be a founder of a rescue operation,is beyond my understanding. I hope this woman & her co-worker receive the maximum penalty allowed & somehow are forbidden to take on any position that would allow either one of them to be caregivers for any type of animal.

It's true. Those pets would have already been put down. She rescued them and probably had to pay money to adopt them out of the shelters.

People die all the time smuggling themselves over the border for a better life.

One dead dog out of 128 rescued isn't so terrible vs. all 129 dead.

Who's to say the dog didn't die from stress or a heart condition or just old age.

Most of the rescued animals are old muts nobody wants. Think of the costs to maintain a no-kill shelter and all that dog food, etc.

She did the best she could with the money she had to work with. What have you done?

By buying a puppy you contributed to this mess.

By rescuing only a certain breed you sentence others to death based on their bloodlines. You are doing little to nothing to help the real problem.

Agreed many people are mentally ill and hord animals and they are in just as bad of shape as their animals.

The animals are probably still better off than dead but we need to help the owners get counseling and medication and the dogs into no-kill shelters where the owners can visit them.

Just showing up with animal control and destroying all the animals does nothing.

At least their intention was good.

I'd rather be a horder's dog than get lethal injection any day.

Why not volunteer to help these people clean up and get their act together instead of trying to persecute them.

It's too easy to be an armchair executioner these days. All you little dog fetish people with sweaters on your dogs need to WTFUp and pitch in or STFUp!

way too many people believe that by saving large #'s of animals they show others what good people they are. they seem more interested in how other people see them then in the true welfare of these poor animals. any one who truly loves animals knows you can't save them all and you owe it to give the best life possible to what you can save. if you can only AFFORD to give one a good life that alone makes you a good person.