When it rains, the facility floods so severely that dogs housed in an area known as “The Hill” are trapped in standing water, mud, and debris.Each pen usually houses three or four dogs. Dogs confined to outdoor pens compete for shelter, as there is just one-or sometimes two-dilapidated plastic doghouse in most pens. Dogs, cats, and other animals languish in confinement almost constantly.PETA’s investigator also noted many other types of abuse, including the following: They noted that “untreated waste water piped from toilet and washing machine into large lagoon-like area” caused a noticeable odor throughout the facility. On another day, an employee was bitten by a rat as he tried to get the animal out of a cat cage!ĭuring inspections in 2007, NCDA&CS inspectors found trash and debris strewn throughout the property. She also refuses to take him to the vet.” -PETA’s investigatorįacility grounds were so overrun with rats that on one day, 11 dead rats were found in one outdoor pen. She does not give him any pain medication, nor antibiotics.

He seems to be in excruciating pain, and yet Kim does nothing about it. His tail is a bloody stump with the insides all hanging out. Staffing levels don’t allow for even minimally adequate care. A small handful of staff at ACGS-who aren’t all sober or willing to work-are expected to tend to nearly 700 animals. PETA’s investigator repeatedly alerted Kappler and other facility supervisors about the dire condition of these canines and others-but to no avail.ĭuring his employment at ACGS, PETA’s investigator observed that other paid staff were drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana while on duty and sitting idle-sometimes for hours-while the animals they were supposed to tend to languished in filth. After PETA’s investigator brought this existing injury to the attention of facility operator Kim Kappler, more than two weeks passed before the dog received any veterinary attention. Murphy sustained a crushed pelvis and a broken leg. Cinder was discarded into the “laundry room” and, like Riley, never received care from a veterinarian for this wound.

Riley’s only documented “treatment” consisted of isolation in a filthy room (ironically referred to as “The Penthouse” by staff), where he was hidden from public view and left to suffer from an open, festering wound that exposed his tailbone.Ĭinder was also attacked by another dog, and her ear was nearly torn off. Riley was attacked by another dog, who bit Riley’s tail off, leaving a bloody stump that eventually became infected. Among the dozens of untreated injuries documented by PETA’s investigator, some of the most severe cases were those of three dogs: Riley, Cinder, and Ms.

All creatures great and small original