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Rush Kennel - Horror at Pleasant Garden | Facebook

PLEASANT GARDEN — On its Web site, Rush Kennel bills itself as “North Carolina’s No. 1 dog kennel,” a place where Weimaraners, Labrador retrievers and other breeds frolic in a fenced play yard before the day ends with a massage, pool bath and pedicure.

“We pamper our dogs and make them feel great all over,” proclaims the Web site for the kennel, which is owned by Pleasant Garden businesswoman Sheila Rush Savage.

But the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office and the county Animal Shelter say they found something quite different last week in searching the kennel, after a four-month investigation of the breeding operation that sold purebred puppies for up to $800 each.

Investigators discovered filthy conditions that included large amounts of dog and rat feces, foul drinking water, malnourished dogs infested with such parasites as hookworms and heartworms, some dogs with rampant dental decay, others with severe lacerations and at least one with an eye infection so severe the eye must be removed.

Live electrical wires were strung across the cages, apparently to prevent the dogs from getting out, shelter director Marsha Williams said.

“In front, it looked very nice, very clean and very professional. It was behind the wooden privacy fence where you saw the issues,” said Williams, who helped deputies check out the kennel during their Wednesday raid.

Efforts to reach Savage and other kennel personnel for comment Saturday were unsuccessful. In the aftermath of last week’s raid, the 53-year-old dog breeder faces charges of animal cruelty, as does the shelter’s caretaker, Robert Landreth, 61.

After the two turned themselves in Friday, their lawyer said they had explanations for all the allegations and predicted they’ll be exonerated.

For example, attorney Kent Lively said, a rail-thin Weimaraner taken from the kennel and pictured recently in the News & Record was not underfed.

“(The dog) is an elderly dog and they tend to lose weight at 10 or 11 years old,” Lively said in an interview Friday. “She (Savage) doesn’t allow any of her dogs to be malnourished, is what she tells me.”

Before last week’s arrest, Savage was in the news during a 2007 stint on ABC’s “Wife Swap” reality show, where much was made of her affection for her nine Chihuahuas and poodles.

But evidence emerging so far in the case shows that the animal shelter, Guilford County Animal Control officers and the local Better Business Bureau have been concerned about Savage’s kennel for years.

The shelter took in 40 to 50 abandoned dogs from Savage in the past eight or nine years, Williams said.

“We would have to treat them for whatever illness or other problems they had,” she said. “They were not in very good shape when they were brought in to us. She said they were tired, like they were too old or she didn’t want to breed them anymore.”
The shelter did not pursue its own investigation of Rush Kennel because it lacked the authority, Williams said: “Animal Control was bringing them (the dogs) to us for her. We assumed they didn’t have any problems with her at that time.”

A spokesman for Guilford’s animal control program declined to comment on the situation, saying that it involves an ongoing investigation.

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