[emilyann]

I hate where we recently moved to. It's a really small town and I couldn't find a animal rescue anywhere that would come this way. I called about our neighbors dog trying to find someone to come and get it and the court house told me I'd just have to file a police report. I was scared to death and just couldn't bring myself to do it. I stay home alone the majority of the time because my boyfriend travels and works. His sister used to "hang out" with our neighbor and said he was a pretty uneasy guy meaning he'd most likely try to do something if he found out I filed a police report because he neglects his dog. They have 2 dogs but they don't keep one of them tied up constantly like they do the other (or try to anyway). They've had a countless amount of dogs since we moved in here (we've only been here 3 months), they had a very small dog that we ended up feeding because it just broke my heart. It ended up disappearing, my boyfriend's sister said that another dog got a hold of it or something. Anyway, so, yesterday I had Rickey go ahead and call the police department but all it would do is ring. So, I got on Google and searched and searched and FINALLY found something, it's called Real Dog RsQ Inc. in Munfordville, KY. I looked and couldn't find a number but found an e-mail address and e-mailed them asking if they rescued abused/neglected animals and they said they do. I e-mailed them again earlier and told them the situation I'm in and I'm waiting for a reply.

The dog is awful. We knew things were bad but didn't know it was as bad as it is. They were keeping it in a crate the size of Lilly's because someone (not me) called the sheriff on them for their dog's getting into someone's garbage. So, yesterday we came home and she was laying on our front porch. I scared her off by shewing her off the porch because I don't want Lilly catching anything from her (not sure if it's possible but I'm not risking it) and was horrified at what I saw. Her ears were raw and bloody almost like she had mange or something, she was infested with fleas and not to mention how sickly skinny she is. Oh and to beat it all... she had what looked to be a shoe string wrapped around her neck and it looked like that's what they had her "tied up with", it looked like she had either broke it or gnawed it so it broke. I just don't understand it, they have a baby and everything and whenever the smaller dog was still around she had the mange too and I'm pretty sure had fleas and it would go into the house quite a bit??? So I don't know... I'm sorry but I'm not a violent person at all but if killing someone wasn't against the law, my neighbor would already be shot.

Any advice on what I'm doing, I'm so scared

and I know I should have gotten something done sooner but I'm not going to put Lilly and I in risk of something happening to us. When we first moved in he told Rickey he'd buy Lilly from us, he's just a really weird person.

I don't know if I even made sense in all of this, hopefully I did though.