Someone should have dropped a memo to Mercer County Humane Society's president, Karen Aubrey, that the whole point of a humane society is to put a stop to cruelty.
Aubrey was arrested during a drug bust in a Salvisa, Kentucky, home where police found 34 dogs living in the house.
An officer wrote in the police citation that the dogs had been 'mistreated, malnourished, and did not have proper living conditions.'
The animal cruelty was uncovered when police moved in to arrest Kenneth Brawner, who was staying at the home, for possession of methamphetamine.
The citation noted that police found drug paraphernalia and methamphetamine near the room where Gabriella Follmer was staying. Meanwhile, police found 'meth pipes, digital scales, baggies, currency and white-crystal-like substance' in the room where Kenneth Brawner was staying.
Another resident, Amanda Coontz, was not charged during the drug bust, but was picked up on animal cruelty charges.
As police investigated the dogs, it turned out that nine of the animals were registered with the Humane Society. Further investigation showed that the house was owned by Karen Aubrey, who had resigned as the Humane Society's president as soon as news of the drug bust hit.
It turned out that she had registered the house with the Humane Society as a private dog kennel (the same house that she was renting to the drug addicts), so she too was arrested on animal cruelty charges.
The Mercer County Animal Shelter confiscated 29 of the dogs, including nine of the Humane Society's dogs.
But with so many dogs, the shelter is struggling under the burden.
'Animal control is a short term, very short term holding facility,' explained Mercer County Animal Shelter Director Wendy Quiggle. 'We are not meant to hold onto animals for months on end, because like we have now, we can't take in any stray animals. If we get them, we have no room. So, I'm stuck.'
Normally, when animal control is full, they send dogs to The Humane Society to try to find homes for them, but ... well ... you know.
As a final plea to the community, Quiggle said, 'Please come and adopt, don't shop anywhere else, give one of our shelter dogs a chance, they do turn out to be great dogs.'
Oddly enough, Aubrey was cited in an article on animal abuse last year as saying,
You can't come to Mercer County and get away with animal abuse.
I guess she was right about that.
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