Yorkies available for adoption in Nevada!
 

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Date: 2005-12-10, 11:45PM PST


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Thirty-three dogs are left for adoption. If you would like to adopt one of them, call Southern Nye County Friends of Animals at 775-537-2020

I know alot of people want yorkies, maybe someone can make a trip up there. And please stop buying from pet stores. If you want a purebred, make sure you go to the breeding facility and see the parents. These are the parents of the petstore puppies. No good breeder would sell their babies to a petstore. So you are going to buy overpriced, unhealthy dogs.
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Nye County Animal Control has shutdown a puppy mill, and now the owner is facing 68 counts of animal cruelty. Eyewitness News has the exclusive story.

The conditions inside the Pahrump home were so deplorable; it is amazing that these dogs survived. Vie Keller with the Southern Nye County Friends of Animals says of a Yorkie, "I named him Caesar because when I met him he had the heart of a Caesar. He was meant to live."

It is a miracle that this little Yorkie, or the 64 others now at the Southern Nye County Friends of Animals, are alive. Vie Keller says, "When we discovered him, his leg was hanging by just a narrow thread. And it was full of maggots and if you held him, the maggots would fall on the floor."

His hair was so matted that his rescuers believe he chewed his leg to the bone. It had to be amputated. Vie Keller says, "He'd come hobbling up with that leg to greet you."

It is unbelievable to think that it was the same Yorkie who was living in deplorable conditions at a Pahrump home for years. In all, 68 dogs, most of them Yorkies and Silkys, were stacked through out the house in cat-size cages. They were living in their feces with matted hair, ear and eye infections, and only let out to breed.

Debbie Pemberton with Nye County Animal Control says, "We've seen neglect and cruelty cases before, but this rates pretty high on our scale."

The dogs' owner, 57-year-old Tana Nass, was cited for 68 counts of animal cruelty and was evicted from the home. Her two grandchildren were removed from her care.

It took 8 hours and a HazMat team to remove the dogs to their new home at the shelter. One of the board members there has gone home each night and knitted a sweater for each of the Yorkies. That's because when they were finally groomed, they were cold from losing all their hair.

The owner of the puppy mill, Tana Nass, faces a $1,000 fine, 48 hours of community service and whatever else the judge finds necessary. Nass also faces welfare and check fraud charges.

Thirty-three dogs are left for adoption. If you would like to adopt one of them, call Southern Nye County Friends of Animals at 775-537-2020.

Contact Reporter Cindy Cesare

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That's so sad
 

SO horrible!! I hope the puppies will get a new happy life in the future...

That's a damn shame....I hope all those babies find good homes!

that is so horrible
then look at the bottom pict the lady put clothing on them...HUH that makes no sense
what a horrible situation i hope all those babies find great homes

do you know if all the puppies have been adopted yet. i am looking into adopting one. let me know if you can. thanks :aimeeyork

That is sickening! Wish I had time to get to Nevada, of course if they have 33 left, that is close to what I am sure I would come home with!

Did you call them? Are any left? Good luck,hope you can get one or two!

Im so glad they shut them down and got those poor poor babies out of there. I hope they all find good loving homes that they all deserve. so sad.

It says in the article that as of November 25th, all of the dogs have been adopted. Click on the link.

:aimeeyork :aimeeyork

$1,000.00 FINE?! THATS IT! I really hope they mean 1,000 per dog. :mad: :mad: This is just so disturbing I cant even think of anything else to say!!! :mad: :confused: :(

Poor little ones . There will never be a fine enough to punish those ..........
This is a real shame to treat dogs like that .

That's exactly what I thought!!!