On October 1, the Ohio Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals along with Pickaway County Sheriff's deputies, seized 52 dogs from Beachy's Laurelville farm. Lt. Dale Parish said the OSPCA and the sheriff's investigators gave evidence to the Circleville law director Gary Kenworthy and he filed the charges on Thursday in Circleville's Municipal Court.
"He is being charged because these animals were in such horrendous conditions," Teresa Landon with the OSPCA said.
Beachy said he cares for his animals and his dogs were seized because of cultural differences.
"We don't have TV and we don't listen to the news," Beachy said. "I was not aware that I was violating any laws whatsoever," he said. "Since then, friends have brought me the Ohio dog laws and I've been reading it and understanding it and I did not violate any laws," Beachy said.
[If he didn't think it was wrong keeping dogs in this horrific conditions, why didn't he sell the puppies looking like the adults? He cleaned up the puppies to make them sell at a premium while the 'breeders' were left to live in squalor. This tells me he knows right from wrong.]
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| Can you even tell what kind of dog this is?? |
"The dogs were severely matted; they had sustained injuries that were never treated. For many of them their feet have been permanently damaged and we are not sure they are going to heal at this time," Landon said.
Rick Carter is Beachy's neighbor and has known his family for 20 years, he said Beachy takes a good care of his animals and does not think Beachy was treated fairly.
"They came in here and painted Jonas as some kind of monster-- he not that-- He is a man trying to make a living by farming here, no different than anybody else that lives here," Carter said.
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| Top: Rick Carter, making a fool out of himself trying to defend the owner, who says since he doesn't watch tv he didn't think keeping dogs in these conditions was wrong. Um, yeah, OK. |
Landon said feces were a foot and a half deep under the dog's hutches. "So far the OSPCA and several other animal rescues groups have spent more than 15,000 dollars in an effort to rehabilitate the 52 dogs," she said.
Beachy scheduled for his initial court appearance at 8:30 a.m. on November 27.
(NBC 4 - Nov 9, 2012)
