Mary Colleen Cotton Ogden bonded out of the Duncanville jail on Saturday. Now her case has been turned over to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office.
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| Mary Colleen Cotton Ogden is facing 10 counts of cruelty to animals. |
Last month investigators received a tip that animals were living in unsanitary conditions at three of Ogden’s homes in Duncanville.
The SPCA found 102 dogs and six cats living in wire cages. The kennels were soaked with urine and feces.
“A lot of these guys came from situations where they were living in up to a foot of feces and many of them I don’t know how long it had been since their feet had touched the grass,” said Maura Davis, a spokeswoman for the SPCA of Texas.
Ogden surrendered all rights to the animals. They remain in the custody of the SPCA at the Perry Animal Care Center in McKinney.
(FOX 4 News - Nov 14, 2011)
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Earlier Story (Oct 21, 2011): "More Than 100 Dogs Seized from Homes"
Dallas County SPCA officials seized more than 100 animals Friday found caged inside three feces-filled and urine-soaked homes.
The Duncanville Police Department received an anonymous tip about the dogs last week. Investigators found eight dogs in one house, 30 in the next and about 80 in the last house.
SPCA spokeswoman Maura Davis it was a frightening situation inside the homes.
“You walk in you see fixtures the nicest you can image. Then you’re confronted with row upon row upon row of dogs again in cages encrusted in feces and everything is urine soaked,” she said. “These guys are be being held in the wire cages, wire crates just stacked next to each other and in some places in that second house the feces piles are over a foot high.”
Police said the two women who own the homes have so far only been cited for having too many animals.
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| Rusty Lloyd insists they took good care of the animals |
Rusty Lloyd, who said she helps the owners take care of the dogs, claims many were taken in because they had been thrown away.
“They just could not see these animals suffer so we took them and that’s the only things that we are guilty of,” Lloyd said. “Tri-city shelter would call us whenever they would have an animal that was unadoptable or that was really badly abused.”
Tri-city shelter needs to be prosecuted for handing over animals without bothering to verify if these ladies were actually providing them with needed veterinary care, or finding them homes. - "bad shelter" tag b/c too many shelters do this to simply get the animals out of their buildings so their transfer/adoption numbers look good.
Lloyd denied any animal abuse, saying there were daily exercises and cage cleanings. But the SPCA sees it differently.
“It looks like a horse stall that hasn’t been cleaned in several months. You’d almost have to shovel the feces out to clean and then you’d have to start scrubbing the floor,” Davies said.
Police are still investigating to determine if the homeowners should face any additional charges.
