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07-26-2008, 06:44 AM | #1 |
I love my baby girls! Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Indiana
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| Please Sign This Petition FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE SEE THIS THREAD: http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...e-rescued.html Originally Posted by jadjem Thank You jadjem! The following link will take you to the petition I wrote last night. Please sign it and send it on to everyone you can. I will then send it on August 2nd to any and every legal entity that could do anything. Any suggestions would of course be welcomed! Don't Reward Teresita Hughes Cruelty Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ] We, the undersigned, respectfully request the judgment in favor of the return of 60 dogs to Teresita Hughes as ordered by Judge Myra Scott McNary be overturned. Ms. Hughes callous disregard for the welfare of the animals is evidenced in the video of the seizure and by testimony of a Pinellas County Sheriff’s Deputy Carolyn Wagner that the animals had insufficient air or exercise and their food was tainted with feces. Living in filthy and deplorable conditions, the dogs which counted six to eight per cage were crowded and forced to live in rooms with little ventilation where the stench of urine and feces made your eyes tear and your nose burn. Hughes admitted to not allowing the dogs out of their cages for “at least the past four months,” proof they had spent endless days walking only on wire-bottom cages. $100,000 in veterinary fees paid for by public donations to a rescue organization is testimony to the condition of the animals when they were seized. Further, we ask that Ms. Hughes be prosecuted to the full extent of the law in accordance with the following: FLORIDA ANTI CRUELTY LAW Florida Statute 828.12 et seq. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS is defined as: “Overloads, overdrives, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance or shelter, or unnecessarily mutilates, or kills any animal, or causes the same to be done, or carries in or upon any vehicle, or otherwise, any animal in a cruel or inhumane manner”. This is a 1st Degree Misdemeanor with a fine up to $5000 and/or imprisonment up to 1 year. INTENTIONAL ANIMAL CRUELTY is defined as: “commits an act to any animal which results in the cruel death, or excessive or repeated infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering.” This is a 3rd Degree Felony with a fine up to $10,000 and/or imprisonment up to 5 years. Intentional Cruelty with “knowing and intentional torture or torment of an animal that injures, mutilates, or kills the animal” carries a minimum fine of $2500 and completion of a psychological or anger management treatment program. To return the animals, now vetted courtesy of INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS, with required weekly visits by the Humane Society, paid for by OUR TAXES, so that Ms. Hughes can continue to profit from her breeding business is a travesty of justice and a huge slap in the face to all of us who PAY OUR OWN BILLS. We pray you will “do the right thing” for those who are totally at your mercy.
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07-26-2008, 06:59 AM | #2 |
I Love My Babies Donating Member | You bet I'll sign it! You are supported 100%. She should NEVER have an animal again.
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07-26-2008, 07:44 AM | #3 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Belmont Shore SoCal
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| I signed....
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07-26-2008, 07:45 AM | #4 |
Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Mississippi
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| You betcha' I signed it. Where, oh where, has common sense gone these days? If this ruling stands, the courts will have done this woman a huge favor she doesn't deserve. |
07-26-2008, 07:47 AM | #5 |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | You can probably tell by my signature that I signed, thanks for all your work in this. It's great that YT has so many concerned members!
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07-26-2008, 07:47 AM | #6 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: S. W. Suburbs of Chicago, IL
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| Signed it!
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07-26-2008, 07:49 AM | #7 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member | I signed...and where's the one that suggests SHE live in a cage? I'd sign that one too.
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07-26-2008, 08:12 AM | #8 |
Love The Verminator! Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: ny
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| I signed and added this comment: How about "An eye for an eye"? Put her in a cage barefooted with 6 or 7 other puppy-mill breeders and leave them all there, treating them as they treated their little ones. Giving those babies back to her is no different than rescueing physically abused children from their guardians just to give them back saying it's ok to continue abusing them because people who care will pay for the Dr./ER bills that will arise from all future abuse. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING???? THIS IS INSANE!!!!
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07-26-2008, 08:18 AM | #9 |
Twins=double the fun! Donating Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: California
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| I signed Shut this lady down!
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07-26-2008, 08:29 AM | #10 | |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Florida
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you bet i will sign it - this is horrible - come on every one on here needs to sign.
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07-26-2008, 08:33 AM | #11 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Florida
Posts: 496
| I signed How can they even consider returning those babie - breaks my heart - How does some one even care for that many pups - oh wait , never mind she wasn't careing for them was she - duh ! If anyone gets more info as this progresses , please be sure we know about it.
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07-26-2008, 08:35 AM | #12 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Posts: 37,147
| I signed
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07-26-2008, 10:39 AM | #13 |
I love my baby girls! Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Indiana
Posts: 2,718
| I sent this out to everyone on my email list, posted it on my MS boards and on my blog. I hope we get tons of signatures!!
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07-26-2008, 11:00 AM | #14 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: DFW, Texas
Posts: 11,003
| I signed! I hope this petition can stop this aweful puppymiller from abusing more dogs!
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07-26-2008, 11:01 AM | #15 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2008 Location: California
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| thank you for taking the initiative to do this. |
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