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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Starved Dogs Deserves Justice BAN FOR LIFE: GREG RIGDON, INDIAN CREEK ROAD, BROWNSVILLE, EDMONSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY Greg Rigdon, 56, of Leitchfield.....

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EDMONSON COUNTY, Ky. (WBKO) - A Brownsville man faces a number of animal cruelty-related charges after officials located malnourished and deceased dogs on his property. This isn’t the first time this man has been similarly charged.

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SIGN: Justice for Dogs Starved To Death By Repeat Animal Cruelty Offender

PETITION TARGET: Edmonson County Circuit Court Prosecutors

Emaciated dogs were starved in their cages and provided with rotting animals and skeletons or no food or water at all by their owner, a repeat animal cruelty offender, before being rescued in Edmondson County, Kentucky.

Law enforcement who fielded arrived at a residence on Indian Creek Road to find multiple severely malnourished dogs, according to WBKO. While some of the suffering animals had rotting corpses or bones of other animals in their cages, others had no food or water at all — with authorities finding only one empty bag of dog food on the property.

Investigators also found the corpse of a “mummified” dog, chained to a dog house on the property, and the skeletal remains of several other dogs.

Authorities have charged Brownsville resident Greg Rigdon with five counts of second-degree animal cruelty and also with the torture of a dog with serial physical injury or death.

Rigdon has been charged with animal cruelty twice before, including in October 2017 when authorities seized four Beagle puppies, including one who was so emaciated that veterinarians initially considered euthanizing him.

On that occasion, years ago, authorities also found several deceased dogs on Rigdon’s property, according to news reports – but after Rigdon took a plea deal, he spent only 30 days in jail, with a 2-year probation period and a $570 restitution paid to the local animal shelter.

This repeat instance of extreme neglect is tragic evidence of why animal cruelty needs to be taken seriously and animal abusers need to be held fully accountable for their actions.

Probation and a fine for fatal animal cruelty is not justice. It’s not accountability. And it’s definitely not enough to send a message to animal abusers that they shouldn’t put more animals in dangerous – and deadly – conditions.

Sign our petition to Edmonson County Circuit Court prosecutors to treat this horrific case of repeat, fatal, and intentional animal cruelty with the severity it deserves – including a ban on owning animals for life.

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Thursday, August 4, 2022

21 Emaciated Dogs Need Your Signature

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SIGN: Justice For 21 Emaciated Dogs Seized from Unlicensed Kennel

PETITION TARGET: Prince George’s County Animal Control Investigators and Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office

Major, a beloved canine companion, now reportedly is fighting for his life after officials seized him and 20 other emaciated dogs from an unlicensed kennel in Maryland, according to news reports.

“You can see every single bone in his body,” Major’s distraught guardian told Fox45 News . “He could barely hold his head up. He couldn’t even open his eyes.”

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Sellmon says she paid Taylor and his business $3,000 up for a long-term stay for her previously happy and healthy dog, Major, while she dealt with a variety of issues including a health scare. She had no idea he was starving to death until she got a call from an animal hospital.

“Animal control brought him in,” she says, “He had no pulse.”

Tracy Sellmon's dog Major before he went to an unlicensed Prince George's County kennel. (Tracy Sellmon)

The emaciated dogs had no access to food or water, according to officials with Prince George’s County Animal Control who followed up on tips from concerned residents and a local veterinary hospital. The dogs needed immediate medical care at animal hospitals before they could be transferred to county animal services, where they are receiving additional care.

As part of an ongoing investigation, they cannot be adopted or fostered – meaning they likely now also face a long waiting period as the case moves through the system before they can ever find the loving forever homes they deserve.

Officials have charged Tristian Taylor, owner of Taylormade K9s or the Bark Base Kennel, with animal cruelty and theft. Taylor, in a public apology, said the situation was “very complicated” and blamed the documented neglect on a kennel tech and other business priorities that he said had prevented him from conducting proper oversight of his facility, according to news reports.

Whoever is responsible for this atrocious neglect and suffering must be held fully accountable. This dangerous – and possibly deadly – cruelty must be treated with the severity it deserves.

Sign our petition urging Prince George’s County Animal Control to thoroughly investigate this abuse and for the prosecutor to treat this case with the severity it deserves – including a lifelong ban on owning animals for everyone responsible.

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