"They were just like barely this wide and I seen this one, it was starved to death and out here and I guess the other dogs had been eating on it you know, they were so hungry," next door neighbor John Clifford says.
Neighbor John Clifford describes an unsettling scene as he walks us through what he calls a puppy graveyard.
“She had about 7 or 8, she had a mommy and her puppies and they were all in this pen right here," Clifford says.
Dog bowls filled with moss and mud, crates covered in feces and a chicken coop built for only a few chickens held 8 large breed dogs.
"The momma, she was starved to death, the puppies were starved to death, and they were just all starved to death," Clifford says.
Neighbors say they believed the owner passed away because of the smell, every time they would drive by, come to find out it was the three dog carcasses that were thrown in the middle of the driveway.
Pontotoc County Sheriff John Christian says when they arrived to this trailer home Saturday on County Road 3652, they were able to rescue four dogs, unfortunately three had already died.
Delozier told Deputy Wood she threw one puppy into the woods and buried the other two in her yard.
And now 52 year old Pamela Delozier has been arrested on animal cruelty charges.
According to the report, Delozier told deputies she blamed the sheriff’s office for not having the money to feed the puppies, saying deputies had arrested her husband and her neighbors would not help her. She stated that she fed them gravy and rice three times a day.
Noah says he would come by Deloziers home every day to feed Brodie, the only dog he says was able to sneak out of the chicken coop.
"I just hate it; I just don’t like seeing dogs like that," Eden says.
Sheriff John Christian says the dogs that were rescued are being held in a rehabilitation facility to be treated. And the ones who will not survive will be humanely euthanized.
Once Delozier had been booked into the Pontotoc County Justice Center, Wood went shopping.
Out of his own pocket, Wood purchased a large bag of Puppy Chow, returned to the dogs and helped feed them. The dogs were given small portions of food to make sure they did not overdo it as they took their first steps on the road to recovery.
“In my career as a deputy, these four dogs were in one of the poorest conditions I’ve ever seen,” Woods wrote. “I did not observe any kind of remorse from (Delozier) about the condition of the dogs.”
(KTEN North Texas & Southeastern Oklahoma - May 24, 2016)
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