Andrea Rosebrock 
Almost a month after the raid on the Memphis Animal Shelter, MAS, it’s beginning to look like what they found is just the tip if the iceberg. As the investigation continues, records, what few and disorganized there are, show that about 18,000 animals went through MAS from January through mid-November. Over 12,000 were euthanized but there was also a figure of more than 200 animals that died while in the shelter’s care.
These animals, these 227 unfortunate animals’ deaths’ remain unexplained and may never be explained due to how terrible the paperwork was kept at the shelter.
Two weeks after the raid, there were already many changes at the shelter but we’re still waiting to see criminal charges filed against those responsible for the horrific conditions that we are now finding out are even worse, if possible, then we even thought. It looks like that may happen soon and it cannot be soon enough. The DA’s office is still waiting for the final investigation report…. so I guess we’ll keep tuned and hope that there will be some kind of justice for those so cruelly and wantonly killed.
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It is so sad how the animals of Memphis and Toronto shelters had been treated. I can only hope that bringing these cruel practices out into the public will get the mass support to demand changes within shelters. If you’re not there to care and protect the animals than get out.
I hope they nail these POS to the wall. How could you let animals die, when you are suppose to care for them. The money obviously went into their pockets and was not used for these poor animals. I will be waiting to hear the update on this.
this is awful. as for the the 24 hour cameras they have set up so the public can see what is going on via web cam.(I booked marked that link when you last posted it) I checked it everyday since, and I have only been able to actually see the care of 4 dogs that were in cages behind the the canine 1 kennells and they were only there for approx 9 hrs and then I have never seen another dog sincce. The location of the cameras is not designed so that you can actually see the dogs or the care of them. it’s a joke. I called the Mayers office there and expresswed my concerns , but to no avail. The dogs i saw in those cages that day looked sad and too big for the cages. There were two dogs in one cage and the littlest dog didnt even get up or move all day. I have to wonder if they were on ‘death row’ or what. Im sure any abuse is still going on…you cant see a thing with the cameras.
You are so right Julie. I have been checking in also, biggest SAD joke I have ever seen. If a retail store placed its security cameras this same way, we could all walk out with all the merchandise as well as the registers and not be on tape. As for the Mayor’s office their explanation is there is the Mayor’s Task Force working on it. What a hoot, a bunch of self congratulatory big wigs, who also believe in keeping animals in capitivity, a former AC, and a former Assistant Director that got kicked out of another TN Animal shelter. But according to him, that was not about mistreatment, it was about lots of complaints and differeces with the volunteers. HA! In case I am not being fair to this exalted Task Force, let’s not forget the ONE volunteer that has been appointed.
Changes at the shelter, you bet, the new supervisor is a convicted forger among her charges. Better get her working pronto on those death records. She could likely get the 200 died down to 20 in a heartbeat. If felony criminal charges do not include the Full Time vet, then there is no such thing as change, justice or concern at the MAS for those who are empowerd to make the needed and humane changes. For the record, a shelter kill rate that exceeds 65% is reprehensible and really says how little they care and how even much less they do to save animals
I hope this isn’t going to be another case where they drag it out until the public outcry dies down, and then it’s quietly shoved under the dirty carpet. There should be no question that criminal charges will be filed. Clearly they “cooked the books” in such a way that nobody can prove much of anything. My heart aches for the 13,000 who were put down, and even more for the ones they have no explanation for, because we all know more than likely it was just like the little puppy – starvation and neglect or being killed by others in the same kennel when they should have been separated.
It seems like every day there are new stories of shelter horrors around the globe. I get the feeling that greedy, unfeeling and sometimes outright evil people are running the majority of them. Stories continue to crop up where those running these houses of horror already had a back track record, and they simply moved and did it somewhere else. Unless and until our precious animals are recognized as more than “property”, this isn’t going to stop. Laws across the board have to be changed and new ones with real teeth in them put in their place. It’s almost like a joke to some of these monsters. They figure what the heck? A slap on the wrist, but the big bucks will keep rolling in.
I read a story just this week of a shelter where the mummified remains of a cat in a trap was found in the attic just above the office of the man running the place. You know he had to have heard the cries of that cat.
There are some days when all of this madness is so overwhelming. The depths of cruelty humans have become capable of know no bounds anymore.
I have to wonder, are those civil servant employees still working there? Lord help the animals if they are.
I’m glad the news is still being spread, and the story hasn’t been allowed to fade away. It’s hard to even think about the horror, I hope people keep making noise about this and keep pushing for justice.
WE ARE THE VOICE FOR THESE POOR ANIMALS AND WE WILL NOT BE MADE TO BE QUIET FOR ANY REASON, AT ANY TIME!!!!! I only hope God is looking out for these poor baby’s. These inhuman things should be made to suffer as these creatures of God have been made to do.
Please keep us posted on this one D……
How many days after the raid!?! NOW, after it was going to be adopted, another innocent pit bull terrier is mysteriously dead! Or is it dead? The shelter refused to release the euthanasia record.
http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story/New-Accusations-Of-Problems-At-The-Memphis-Animal/qPjn6cDPmkWU1KD5otlO_g.cspx
I swear I bet those same civil servants are there, and still doing the same crappy job that they did before the raid. This is absolutely digusting! They need to hire a lawyer and subpoena those euthanasia records. Part of the problem that they encountered to begin with was shoddy bookkeeping. When is this nightmare going to end at this house of horrors???
Shoddy bookkeeping AND euthanasia drugs at the hands of convicted felons….how frustrating. It seems like nothing has changed since Wharton got into office. OMG- and Lucy Shaw- woops, DOCTOR Shaw- what a joke! The young lady who had her adopted (once paperwork went through)pit KILLED is working on kicking butt and taking names- I can’t wait to see how this plays out- they messed with the wrong person this time- I do believe help is on the way!!!