FLORIDA -- A 21-year-old North Jacksonville man is behind bars after police found two starving urine- and feces-covered dogs chained to a porch railing at an apartment at 3715 Almeda St.
Breon Dirneal Woodard of Almeda Street was charged Monday with cruelty to animals, according to jail records.
Police said they received calls about the situation and went to the apartment just before 2 p.m. to find an adult dog named Hanson and a puppy named Princess chained to a small corner of a back porch.
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Flies were swarming around the dogs, who were extremely weak and thin, with bones showing through their skin. There was dog food in a bowl, but it was covered with mold and more flies, the arrest report said.
A city animal control investigator tossed some food at the older dog, but it was too weak to stand up and get it and laid back down in urine. The animal control investigator said it was “one of the worst cases” of animal neglect and cruelty he had seen in his 10 years on the job.
Woodard told officers he has had the dogs since June and thought they weren’t hungry, which is why they stopped eating.
Woodard was arrested at the scene and the dogs removed for treatment at the city’s Animal Care and Protective Services center, police said.
(The Times-Union - Nov 23, 2011)
>>>Dec 2, 2011 UPDATE
Woman arrested on animal cruelty warrant after two starving dogs found Nov. 21 at Jacksonville apartment and co-owner arrested
A second person has been arrested on charges of cruelty to animals after police found two starving urine- and feces-covered dogs chained to a porch railing on Nov. 21 at an apartment at 3715 Almeda St.
Meagan Jackae Gordon, 22, of West 23rd Street, was booked into the Duval County jail Thursday on a week-old arrest warrant, and is being held on $60,000 bail, according to jail records.
The dogs’ co-owner, Breon Dirneal Woodard of Almeda Street, was booked on the same charge Nov. 21, and bonded out the next day, according to jail records.
Gordon was in a car that was stopped at 8:20 p.m. Thursday on Dunn Avenue due to a broken taillight. She was arrested on the warrant after her name was checked on the computer, according to police.
Officers called to the Almeda Street apartment just before 2 p.m. Nov. 21 found an adult dog and a puppy chained to a small corner of a back porch with flies swarming around them, so thin that their bones showed through their skin, according to the police report.
Dog food in a bowl was covered with mold and more flies.
A city animal control investigator with police called it “one of the worst cases” of animal cruelty he had seen, according to the police report.
Woodard was arrested at the scene and the dogs removed for treatment at the city’s Animal Care and Protective Services center, police said.
(Jacksonville.com - Dec 2, 2011)
