Emaciated dogs found chained

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

From the road, Kelly Nutter could see one sickly dog on the overgrown rural lot near Pacific Junction, Iowa.

Once she got farther back on the property, she realized she was dealing with more than two dozen pit bulls, tethered with heavy chains to an axle buried in the dirt.

The dogs -- most emaciated, dehydrated and sickly -- were seized by Nutter, who serves as the shelter manager for the Loess Hills Humane Society and as an animal control officer for Mills County. Nutter, assisted by other shelter and county employees, found 27 pit bulls on the property near Pacific Junction.

Two of the dogs, sick with pneumonia, were euthanized. The rest are recovering in the fledgling shelter, which opened last summer.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20100507/NEWS01/705079913#emaciated-dogs-found-chained

[flvegan]

1. The shelter needs blankets and stainless steel pails

Interested donors can contact the shelter at 712-527-0753.

“We're a brand new shelter,” said Nutter. “We were not prepared to handle something like this.”

That's first and foremost.

I speak for many in thanking Ms Nutter for her actions. And I welcome her to the club.

[nosmokes]

2. I'll be calling in the morning

[proteus_lives]

3. Awful.

Those poor dogs.

[DesertDiamond]

4. I wish I could send something. Thank goodness they were found!!

[CountAllVotes]

10. you can do something

send them a donation. It doesn't matter how much it is, just send one. Everything helps in a situation like this.

The shelter needs blankets and stainless steel pails to serve as water buckets, Nutter said. Interested donors can contact the shelter at 712-527-0753.

:dem:

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. kick!

[Mopar151]

5. Poor dogs! Goddam world.......

Shelters are ovverrun with pit bulls now. I hope these find good homes on Iowa farms, with room to run and rats to catch!

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." Will Rogers

[tango-tee]

6. Too sad and angry to find the right words.

These poor animals. Thanks heavens for people like Ms. Nutter.

[pattmarty]

7. People that do this kind of shit should be "spayed" with a fucking..............

............dull and dirty can opener. My wife and I shelter with some small help from a local vet who spays and neuters the approx 15 feral cats we have. A stray "one eyed" pug has also "adopted" us. I would rather be with animals than with certain types of people.

[KurtNYC]

8. Pit bulls are the most abused dogs on this planet

and now corporations are cashing in by advertising to the whole dog fight / macho dog crowd...

Nike: http://www.slate.com/id/2079768/

[Dappleganger]

9. Sickening.

Those owners belong under the jail!

[jaksavage]

11. Chain the owners

and refuse water and food.
The punishment should fit the crime.

[Omaha Steve]

12. Marta and I visited the shelter earlier today and made a $ donation, photos on the way

I'll post photos a little later. My thanks to the mods for not moving this animal story to a different location. Usually LBN stories are whales, seals, etc.

The web site: http://www.lhhumanesociety.org/

OS

[Omaha Steve]

13. Photos from today

They are doing wonderful work on a tight budget. It was clean. The animals are happy. Notice the blanket under the puppy in the bottom photo.