Andrea Rosebrock 
Update 2/17/09 – 22 Dogs Seized from Car Now Have a New Chance at Life – VIDEO
Yesterday morning Texas SPCA investigators got a tip about a car filled with dogs. When a Grayson County constable tried to served a warrant, the woman locked the doors of the red station wagon and refused to come out. The odor of ammonia emanating from the vehicle could be smelled from several feet away.
When investigators were able to get into the vehicle, they found 22 small dogs, Papillons and long-haired Chihuahuas, crowded in the vehicle with blankets, pots of water and waste. No idea how long the dogs and the owner had been living in the car but the condition inside was just horrendous.
“The car was soaked with urine and covered in feces. The ammonia level in the vehicle was 23 parts per million even after the doors had been opened for several minutes. As a frame of reference, humans start experiencing health issues at 12 parts per million,” Courtney Stevens, SPCA of Texas rescue and investigations supervisor, said in a news release.
The dogs, 20 adults and 2 puppies, were taken to Perry Animal Care Center in McKinney where they will remain until a custody hearing.
The owner, who was incoherent at the time, was not charged and the SPCA contacted Adult Protective Services regarding her care.
This sounds like a terrible sad situation but there are so few details that you really can’t tell exactly what was happening. A person forced to live in her car with her babies because she has no other alternative? Very possible. A victim of these tough economic times? Possible.
There’s no doubt there was some kind of a problem and the bottom line here is that it’s a good thing that someone took the time to make a call and get these poor dogs out of this situation and this woman some help that it sounds like she needed.
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Sounds so very sad and such a huge problem occuring in our world now. It seems she was trying to keep them safe, had water for them and blankets. Don’t know why she didn’t let them out to do their duties, but it was probably because she was worried something would happen to them. As it is, something GOOD did happen. They were all rescued and I certainly hope she is able to get some help. What was she doing with this many dogs in the first place? And two puppies as well? i feel sorry for the pups and her.
Jess, I wish I could supply more details but there was very little available. If I get more info I will update the story.
At this point the dogs and pups are in safe hands and hopefully the woman is being cared for and looked after. Seeing more and more sad stories like this. Maybe not to this extreme with so many dogs, but people and pets displaced. It’s just heartbreaking, the whole way around.
D.
I really feel sad for the owner of the dogs because i am sure she meant well and they are her babies and maybe the only way she feels loved. Then again she oviously is very sick herself, thank god that someone called for help for herself and for those babies of hers.
You don’t put 22 canines in a car that woman needs mental health attendance
My God, They have to wait at a shelter for a hearing? Surely. there is not a judge with any brains that would allow any of these poor dogs returned to the women even if she is mentally insane. These dogs deserve a loving, forever home and this woman should never have another dog.
Nancy, I can’t imagine a judge would let her have the dogs back, they just have to follow procedure so the dogs can be adopted out. If the woman has no place to live and the dogs have just been living in the car for an extended period of time, which seems to be the case, I imagine it is just a formality.
D.