IDA Rescues Pit Bulls

From In Defense of Animals

Scotlund Haisley, IDA President

In Charleston Mississippi, I went with the director of our Hope Animal Sanctuary, Doll Stanley, to assist an Animal Control Officer (ACO) responding to a report of a dog who died in a small, filthy outdoor wire crate. Another dog was living in the same cage, and two others were on chains with only a small bowl of maggot-infested food. IDA helped seize the neglected dogs, who were taken into protective custody.

Then we headed straight to a second report of cruelty, at the residence of a suspected dogfighter in Charleston. Several critically emaciated dogs with scars, and some with fresh wounds, mostly pit bulls, were discovered chained. The dogs were on chains so tight they needed to be cut off their necks, and they were so starved and dehydrated they could barely stand.

The dogs were terrified while on chains, defending that tight worn 6 foot diameter circle. Once the chains were cut, they relaxed, curled up and accepted help, immediately forgiving the abuse they had suffered! All were confiscated. However the neglect was so extreme, that even with immediate veterinary care, including IV fluids, two of the dogs died overnight, and one, whom we named Mona Lisa, is clinging to life.

See Mona Lisa’s story:

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On the same day, the IDA team responded to pleas for help from the Mississippi city of Winona, for a shelter full of dogs who had little hope of adoption and were in need of medical treatment. We helped relieve overcrowding at the shelter by taking for veterinary care the dogs who were suffering from mange – a mother and pups born in the shelter.

After the dogs receive veterinary care, IDA will place the dogs with partner shelters until they are adopted into permanent loving homes.

IDA is committed to working with municipal and county agencies without the resources to address animal cruelty, but with the dedication to do so. Our Hope Animal Sanctuary, as always, stands ready to assist law enforcement in Mississippi and throughout the South whenever and wherever we can be of help to animals and overburdened public employees.

From the earthquake in Haiti to a research lab in New Jersey to dogfighters in Mississippi, IDA’s Animal Rescue Team is ready to act on behalf of animals.

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