Comments on: Elderly Woman Charged With Animal Cruelty After Pets Found In ‘Deplorable’ Home

By: Amelia Herold

Amelia Herold — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 02:41:30 +0000

My initial reaction was: shock, judgement and disdain for the person/persons who could willfully inflict pain and suffering on innocent animals. Was this a willful act? We don’t know.. I trust our legal system, and hope this woman gets the help she needs. Grateful for animal rescues, responders and compassionate givers. Namaste

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 06:34:24 +0000

Please post my first comment. This is a bunch of messed up unthruths . I believe the person who picked up my dogs the first time wrote a bunch of them because things have been said by her that no one else even knew. Initials only for name!!!!!!
I have never abused any animal. They always loved me. They were my security when my husband was working in Asia and other parts of the US and I was living alone. One dog was 22 years at death, several others died of old age at 16,18 10,12
and other old age. I have rented homes for over 53 years and have helped many people in many ways. I buy things at bargain prices and give away a lot of things to people who need them. I also buy things I know I may need later for my rentals. I take good care of them, I’ve had 3,6,7 year rentals same peoole. Me bad person????? .

By: David

David — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 22:57:51 +0000

This poor lady needs help..perhaps everyone knew it and did not want to address it or know how. The money paid to the courts and legal system now could have been used to get her help. NEVER SEEN So MANY NAsTY UNFEELING people on this subject.
Good greif. And we say we are civilized

By: joe

joe — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 13:36:48 +0000

I lived on this ladies property in the 90’s,she was a hoarder then and would not let her children or husband throw anything out, she had dogs at that time and spent lots of money with DR Windley at Companion animal in Cantonment , I do know that she loved her animals at that time and took care of them, I don’t know what has changed but she obviously has some type of mental issue , so sorry for her and her animals, I will be praying for you Jan .

By: Resident

Resident — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 02:18:31 +0000

It WAS a follow up by animal control that discovered the deplorable conditions. That’s how she was caught.

Although the true cause of hoarding is not known, they demonstrate characteristics from one or more mental illness models, which is why they are used to evaluate hoarders. Most hoarders are aware of their actions and not sufferers of dementia.

She has shown complete disregard for the injunction against owning animals which led to the death of an animal in her care. Does she need jail time? Maybe, maybe not. But at what point do the animals receive justice?

We should be thankful that we have animal cruelty investigators like the one who worked this case and prosecutors like the two that prosecute animal crimes in Escambia County.

By: Esc co leo

Esc co leo — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 23:25:37 +0000

@ grand locust

Take note in the article that she was under a previous court order for the same thing. So you are not correct in saying that no attempt was made at a graduated punishment. That measures put in place last time obviously didn’t work. As for the felonies, law enforcement doesn’t decide what is a felony and what isn’t. They charged her for what she did. In fact, they gave her the absolute minimum bond allowable – $1,000 for each count. It is up to the judge to decide how to handle the case. He can impose supervision and monitoring, the deputies cannot do that. Their only job is to bring the case before the court for the judge to handle. Had the deputies done nothing, THAT would have been the “easy way out.” But when they do nothing, they are lazy. When they do SOMETHING they are overzealous…. I don’t believe anythjng would have been satisfactory to you.

By: Lynda M. Hooper

Lynda M. Hooper — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 21:24:17 +0000

If she was under previous court order to not possess any animals, as it states in the above article, why wasn’t that monitored? And for all of you above, who feel sorry for a poor, little ol’ lady living alone, and with dementia, read Christine’s post above ~ she has a husband, family, and this is apparently repeat behavior. However, I believe if she has been arrested for this same behavior before, and is under court order to not possess any animals, someone should have been checking on that!

By: Melissa Moore

Melissa Moore — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 20:49:29 +0000

This is so very sad. She was under a court order prohibiting her from processing animals. This was no accident and she is a twisted individual for putting these poor animals through such torture. I pray a rescue has stepped up to help the poor animals. If a rescue has indeed stepped in, please message me. I’d like to help with a monetary donation or a food donation.

By: Hoarder’s Relative

Hoarder’s Relative — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 18:45:53 +0000

This lady doesn’t have dementia. She is mentally ill though. I’ve seen this in my own family, with a close relative keeping over 40 cats in her trailer, along with her young daughter. The child constantly smelled of cat. The mother did too. Both of them were covered with bites and scratches.

Why didn’t I do something? Why didn’t other relatives do something? Believe me, we tried. A person with this mindset will attack if you interfere with what they consider their business. And she did, repeatedly, denying the mess in the trailer, accusing us of unjustly persecuting her. We tried to keep the child out of the mess as much as possible, without calling DHR. If we’d done that, the child would have been placed in foster care until we were deemed fit to have her. That thought terrified me.

The cats were finally removed by relatives that literally stormed the place. Many of them were sick and dead. The woman and child had to move into different housing. The trailer they had was ruined. And you know what? Within six months she had eleven cats in her new trailer. She didn’t pay for new housing. I did. And she agreed, NO MORE CATS. She lied. And then she started hiding the cats when visitors dropped by, until the odor became impossible to hide.

She went on to be homeless, living in her truck. The only positive thing is that her daughter finally broke away from her, which is the only chance she had for a normal life.

Don’t blame relatives. I wasted thousands of dollars trying to help a person that can’t be helped. She doesn’t want help. She wants somebody to take care of her, let her stay high all the time and not interfere with how many cats she has. Put the blame where the blame is due, on the person that willfully harms helpless animals then denies there is a problem. It is a form of mental illness, but it’s also just pure evil.

By: Carly

Carly — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 16:51:45 +0000

You people and your comments about how she needs help and don’t charge an 80 year old woman with a felony, etc. You don’t know what you are talking about. She has been given MANY chances to not do this and continues to get more animals and abuse them. She has hidden them from the authorities before at different places to avoid being caught, she knows what she is doing, and will continue to get them and neglect them if she is not finally punished. This is no sweet little old granny. This is a woman who deliberately neglects animals. I am speaking from first hand knowledge here. She has a history of this stuff. This is not her first time, not oh granny got caught trying to take care of all these animals and couldn’t do it. She has had many animals taken away from her over and over again and she still does it. And to the ones who say we are putting animals first God loves all his creatures.