Andrea Rosebrock 
At a time when rescues are closing down and being forced closed, every available decent rescue is desperately needed to save dogs that would otherwise wound up on death row, especially certain breeds that are often quickly labeled dangerous. In this case it’s the Rottweiler Rescue of Nebraska that’s coming under fire. Tracie Jordan runs the rescue and takes in unwanted rotties from a five state area and the state is attempting to revoke her state kennel license.
“You can only take in so many strays before you exceed your capacity to care for them,” said state agriculture veterinarian Dr. John Boucher.
Tracie runs her rescue with the help of volunteers and readily shows pictures of the dogs being cared for and vetted as well as pictures of them with volunteers getting attention and love and new homes.
“It’s cleaned every day. It’s in good shape, good repair and if something is wrong we fix it,” says Tracie
The state says that some of the dogs are fly bitten and some of the kennels are too small, not clean and some of the dogs are tethered. There are approximately 55 dogs on the premises, 40 of them rotties.
If the kennel license is revoked, Boucher says in cases like this, dogs are given over the the humane society.
It could take up to a month before a ruling is handed down.
What I don’t understand is why the state is coming after a rescue that is doing the best it can, caring for and providing these dogs that would in many cases wound up killed when there are hundreds of puppy mills out there will a lot more than 50 dogs and you know the conditions are worse.
Nebraska is one of the states known as a puppy mill haven. Who’s out there inspecting those kennels and making sure all the “i”s are dotted and “t”s are crossed there? They allow them to run, with hundreds of dogs cramped into tiny cages, often horrific conditions and they go after a rescue, after a woman who is no doubt giving everything she has to save dogs. Does anyone aside from me see anything wrong with this picture? Could there possibly be a monetary motive here??
Look at the video, the dogs don’t look in poor shape or uncared for at all… Makes you think, doesn’t it?
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Would it not be logical to help her out rather than close her down .
Since when do bureaucrats and logic ever go together?
D.
I hope you realize this might be one of those cases where the HS wants the local shelter to be closed so the HS gets money. Often, HS will be given money on a per dog basis. If you watch the cash flow, you’ll see the vets get money as well due to contracting with local vets on a regular basis.
In regards to good local shelters, they often know how to take care of various “commonsense”(to me) issues like skin infections, mange, and other issues which are not severe.
If I were the shelter, I’d launch a complaint with the state ethics committee to have both the HS and the head vet investigated.
You got that right IK, my thoughts exactly. There is a skunk in this wood pile with the initials HS and NS. What a scam, that organizationm is pulling over the eyes of the humanitarian people, all over. They have and know no shame.
YeH, but not profitable and isn’t that their bottom line?
I am so sick of these local yahoos going after the small private rescues, rather than going after the puppy mills. I’m certain there are far more horrors at the puppy mills than “fly bites”. These wonderful rescues who give so much of themselves deserve to be rewarded and not harrassed and shut down. I have to wonder if there is some disgruntled neighbor yapping to the authorities or something. Clearly these dogs are loved and taken care of. She’s doing the very best she can. If those babies end up at a humane society, they face death. So why can’t these people wake up and see the good that she’s doing?
I have dealt with this rescue in the past and never saw any problems. I think it is rather alarming that the state seems to over regulate legitimate rescues but the puppy millers operate with little to no oversight! So some dogs are tethered, no it’s not ideal but it’s also not illegal or necessarily a sign of neglect. If the dogs are all vetted and well fed and cared for then i think they need to back off or perhaps put a limit on the # of dogs the rescue is allowed to house…not shut it down!
At the end of the day from what I can see is this women is simply trying to offer dogs a better standard of life rather than be killed, I would have thought it would have been a better decision to help rather than to kill!
None of the dogs look underweight, they are clean and seem to be very happy, it is such a digusting thought that instead of the help she may need they would rather kill the dogs, but tell me would they do this to someone that fosters children the answer is simple… NO!
They’re going after PUPPY MILLS cause it’s money in the POS pockets. You know the deal a little under the table and you can have your puppy mill.
POS all of them! I’m sick of it…
Why, because the Humane ( if anyone still wants to refer to it as that) Society is feeling the pinch after all the bad publicity and their best plan of action is to knock out any and all competition. That way they can get the media coverage of them going in and rescuing all those poor uncared for animals. And then maybe they can regain all or most all of the suporters they have lost over this Vic circus and regain those donations that pay those ungodly pay checks and perks ( May God have mercy on their souls if they have one, that is?)
Of course we all know what they are going to do with all those innocent animals, got to keep that over head down don’t you know.
I did not listen to the video, but watched quickly and looks to me like the Humane Societies are trying to talk gov’t into closing rescues so they can collect and control any cash that comes in for care of animals. It is about protecting their jobs in many cases. Some societies are honest, many are corrupt. We better get active.