MISSOURI -- On March 5, the St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call for animal neglect in the 9800 block of Silver Springs Road.
St. Francois County Sheriff Dan Bullock said that an officer went out there with a lady from the Farmington Pet Adoption Center.
“Apparently there was a dog that broke the chain and was running around loose eating scraps from around the area that she picked up,” said Bullock. “The dog had been going around the neighborhood eating scraps from people’s trash. A second dog was found chained to a shelter and had died.”
According to the probable cause statement, the officer found the deceased dog still chained up to its shelter and it appeared to be wounded and abnormally thin because of illness or a lack of food.
The report states that the owner, later identified as 46-year-old Angela Miner, had moved away and had been contacted by her landlord, who informed her of the dog’s condition and instructed her to remove the dog from the property.
“The resident of the home wasn’t there and hadn’t been there for some time,” said Bullock. “The officer spoke with the landlord to find out who supposedly left the animals there and they had been searching for her since.”
The Farmington Pet Adoption Agency took possession of the deceased dog and also the second dog that broke free from its chain. Both of the dogs were reported to be Miner's dogs.
The report said that the pet agency conducted a necropsy, which is an autopsy performed on an animal. They found that the possible contributing circumstances were heart worm infection, malnutrition/starvation and infection/sepsis, which is the presence in tissues of harmful bacteria and their toxins, typically through infection of a wound, from traumatic wounds.
Miner is being charged with a class A misdemeanor of animal abuse.
(Daily Journal Online - Apr 9, 2015)
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