Comments on: Man Arrested On 78 Animal Cruelty Charges: Report Offers Complete Details

By: Malyndak

Malyndak — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:05:55 +0000

I want to share some info. That’s truely heartbreaking !!!!
There are children in foster care that can talk but do we get to hear their voices ??? No, does the media share their story ???? No, they are neglected & abused, in foster care, in state approved homes, adoption placement homes !!! But no the media doesn’t cover these stories !!!! This is the sad truth of our media, law enforcement, and dept of children & families !!! There’s an ongoing case of such abuse right now !
But have you seen or heard anything about it ??? No bc it’s gov. & st. Where’s the support & coverage on their wants and needs ??? These children have not been allowed any contact with previous family, friends, church members, or previous communities !!! Their rights have been ignored, & with no outside support !!! The past two adopted placement homes have resulted in arrest for neglect & creulty to a child !!! Where is the media & support for these children ??? Who is to suffer the conciquences of these actions … The children & their loved ones, that’s who !!! With no support from the dept. of children & families, the media, or anyone else !!! Truely heart breaking !!!

By: Malynda

Malynda — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:32:59 +0000

By: Sandra

Sandra — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:07:51 +0000

@Deep south survival You sound like a person who goes through life not seeing the forest for the trees.

By: Tina

Tina — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:42:06 +0000

Lord knows I can’t stand for a minute to see animals treated wrong, but what bothers me more is that there is more attention to this case than those of abused children.
If there were half as much attention paid to situations where children are being abused, sexually molested, and neglected, that is being focused on with animals, there would be many children saved from abuse.
Please don’t get me wrong, not for one minute am I saying that we should not care about the animals. I just think we should put just as much care into abused children as we do in abused animals,

By: Deep South Survival

Deep South Survival — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:54:44 +0000

It is amazing how Roger has been demonized. Most all of the allegations have been embellished by animal control. Let me put it to you this way. If you have a dog who has 1-2 ribs showing, or if your dog’s water dish has any algae in it, or if you use blue 55 gallon drums as dog houses, or if you put your dog on any type of tether, then you will be charged and your animals seized. Any one of those will land you in jail. Roger bought dog food by the pallet. There is still a 55 gallon drum, and 10+ bags of dog food there. There are 20+ empty bags left from recent use. The goats have one of those large round bails of hay under a roof, and a bathtub of water in their fence. There were only 5 bull dogs, the rest were baye dogs. The scars come from hunting hogs, and the occasional time that they get loose and fight each other. But that is the same thing that they trumped up on him back in 92. And it just so happens that the prosecuting attorney back then is the DA now. The animal remains they found were dug up from the back of the property, not strewn about as some would have you believe. Two of them were from friends of the family who wanted to bury their pets there so that they could come visit the graves. And if you hunt hogs, you know to look for wallows, hogs root and wallow, any hogs pinned up will do the same. They also had water, and a trough for food. There were a couple old dogs there that were at the end of their days, and anyone who has had a dog till they are geriatric knows, when dogs get really old, it is hard to keep their problems in check. Experienced dog owners know how resilient dogs can be, and nurture their animals back to health themselves. The animal control took meds from the scene, that were being used. Roger is not this monsterized demon that the media has made him out to be. He may be a hoarder, but no monster.

Finally, where is the dog that bit the person, and who is the person that was bit? No one involved knows any of that. Lawson is a private road, there is no one on that road that was bitten or has seen enough on the property to call animal control. This whole thing is tantamount to a person seeing your kid with a black eye and calling DCF on you for child abuse. Or catching you with a sink full of dishes in your house and claiming unsafe living conditions. Embellishment and character assassination.

By: Stumpknocker

Stumpknocker — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:29:29 +0000

@dan-o The tread mills are used to train dogs for fighting, it builds strength and stamina.Another training method is to tie a heavy chain with a tire or something heavy for the dog to lug around in order to make the dog strong.Now i know some will say the tread mills were used so the dogs could maintain their speed for hunting what ever prey their after.That is not true either.The animals that were found dead were on his property in different stages of decomposition,it seems to me that if he cared for the animals the way some claim he did he would have disposed of them properly. Some folks get a little upset when they see tax money being spent on something like this and think its even a waste of time by law enforcement.They need to remember the animals did not create this mess, a human did, and i would expect it will take a human to clean it up.The animals had no say in this matter and i would bet if they could have gotten away they would have.

By: Stumpknocker

Stumpknocker — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:05:14 +0000

@ dan-o The treadmills are used by people who either train dogs to fight or even fight dogs themselves,it builds the dogs just like human would train for strength and stamina.The dead animals were found about his property.A lot folks complain about the attention the animals are receiving they need to realize that the authorities are not cleaning up after the animals but cleaning up after a person,the animals did not have a choice in the matter but the person did, and made a wrong one at that.

By: dan-o

dan-o — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:09:05 +0000

“Authorities also seized treadmills”…Can anyone explain what this has to do with animal cruelty? Did he excercise some to death as well?

By: this is crazy

this is crazy — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:52:40 +0000

@animal lover I think u mess read something it does not say that there where dead animals in the pins. It said that they found two dead goats and a dead hog it does not say where they were found.

By: Animal lover 32535

Animal lover 32535 — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:13:51 +0000

@Paul and everyone else taking up for this animal abuser, wow is about all I can say. He loved his animals so much and took such good care of them that the county had to come in and pay for putting some of them to sleep because they were is terrible condition and hurting so bad they had gone to far to be helped, not to menchine the ones he left in the pens dead with all the other animals, hmmm, something tells me he wont be sueing anyone but it is a shame that the animals he tortured can’t sue him ! I hope the charity people he was supposably feeding don’t get sick and die from the diseases I am sure these animals had ! Sick, sick, sick. Paul if you think that the county was wrong for putting the animals to sleep you should be ashames of yourself and instead be thankfull someone was able to do this for him since I am sure they would just have suffered to death like many of the others did before they were left in pens of filth to die and then just lay there, he could not even get the dead ones out ????? That is just sick, if he could not take care of them, take them to the vet, feed and water them every day and provide adequate shelter for them then he did not need them ! Thank GOD for our animal rescue folks and law enforcment having the guts and having a job to do what HE did NOT do. God bless those animals and bless the people that had to go in those conditions to rescue the other animals.