The National Law Enforcement Center on Animal Abuse is an information clearinghouse and forum for la
The National Law Enforcement Center on Animal Abuse was established to provide law enforcement officers information on the realities of animal abuse, and to promote their proactive involvement in the enforcement of animal abuse laws in their communities.
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A pup rescued during Hurricane Ian has been adopted by the Guilford County Sheriff's Office and will be part of their K-9 team.
Welcome to the team, Storm!
GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — A puppy that was rescued along with her sister after the remnants of Hurricane Ian rolled through Guilford County now has a new home and a big job. Stormi is th…
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Here’s Deputy Jim Vanpelt with two massive Galapagos Tortoises on Fort Myers Beach. They were rescued by Lee County Domestic Animal Services.
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The dog seen in this photo was carried by an OCSO deputy to a rescue vehicle. Both the dog and the dog's owner were evacuated from their home in Orlo Vista.
Our Emergency Response Team is out in Orlo Vista right now making rescues.
Photos from Spotsylvania Sheriff's Office - Roger L. Harris Sheriff's post
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This morning a female bear was unfortunately hit and killed by a vehicle on Route 16 in Wakefield. A single cub was spotted in the area which unless caught and rehabilitated would most likely perish. NH Fish and Game personnel, including CO Ken St.Pierre, Black Bear Project Leader Andrew Timmins, and USDA Bear Technician John Sojka were able to work together and capture the cub. This small male cub will be handed over to Ben Killham where it will be rehabilitated to an age where it can survive in the wild on its own. This is yet another example of how well our departments work together to effectively complete our common goal in the conservation of NH's wildlife.
Photos from Hennepin County Sheriff's Office's post
This video shows the arrest of a father and daughter duo who were caught on video burning a raccoon alive in a dumpster.
Thank you to the Sarasota County (FL) Sheriff's Office for investigating and apprehending them.
Photos from Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office's post
Thank you to the observant officer!
(An update: Trooper Tudors adopted the little pup and named her Princess!)
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A little rescue tale to start your day.
Chief Deputy John Budensiek does his best to try to calm this baby raccoon as he waits for his transportation to the wildlife refuge. The raccoon was trapped in an attic and rescued by MCSO Captain Bill Dowdy this morning. We nicknamed the little guy “Meeko”.
Baby raccoons typically cover their eyes when they are scared. He would lift a hand and peek out occasionally. Nothing to be worried about here though. Meeko is safe and headed to a place where he can grow strong and confident enough to be on his own.
DEPUTY SAVES DOG FROM MANGROVE SWAMP
This pup, Henna, was lost and stuck in the mangroves! Deputy Allen Reddick didn't hesitate for a second...he jumped right into the thick swamp, rescued Henna, and reunited her with her owners.
Thank you, Deputy Reddick, for going above and beyond!
Photos from Vergi 24/7's post
Deputy Samantha Kaplan helped reunite a lost Cooper City pup with her family. After 97 days, our Cooper City BSO City district received a call from a concerned resident about a skinny dog who had just wandered into their yard. Deputy Kaplan sprung into action with her microchip scanner, snacks and blankets in hand.
Besides losing 39 of her 50 pounds, Cinna is healthy, happy and at home recovering with her family. With a bit of time and TLC, she will return to a healthy weight soon.
Cinna's family offered a huge thank you to Deputy Samantha Kaplan and the resident who notified BSO: "You are amazing, and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.”
The happy reunion is a prime example of why you should get your pet microchipped. A microchip contains a pet's identification and increases the likelihood that a lost pet will return home safely to its human family.
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Bibb County Sheriff's Office Animal Enforcement Officer Rebecca Galeazzo, recently answered the call of a Good Samaritan who discovered ten tiny baby opossums next to their deceased mother. The nine surviving babies were transported to an area wildlife rehabilitation facility, and will be released back into the wild when they are old enough to survive on their own.
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ANIMAL CRUELTY TASK FORCE SUCCESS STORY
Blanca, renamed "Grace", is loving her new fur-ever home!
Grace was rescued by the Lee County Sheriff's Office Animal Cruelty Task Force in April 2022 after being tethered, severely emaciated, and covered in fleas. Her previous owner, Carmela Santiago, was charged and arrested for aggravated animal cruelty.
Grace is now showered with love and care in her new home with Rev. Sarah Whitten-Grigsby in Englewood, Florida!
On behalf of Sheriff Carmine Marceno, ACTF, and our partners at County Domestic Animal Services, we are pawsitively happy about this adoption story!
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SHERIFF CARMINE MARCENO'S ANIMAL CRUELTY TASK FORCE
Sheriff Carmine Marceno implemented the Animal Cruelty Task Force to help protect those who cannot protect themselves.
The task force is comprised of detectives from each district of the Lee County Sheriff's Office and a supervisor. Working together, they thoroughly investigate crimes against animals.
Sheriff Marceno has spoken on numerous occasions expressing his love for animals and the reason behind the formation of the unit. He learned that those who abuse animals are likely to go on and abuse humans. From there, his initiative to stop animal abuse was born.
To learn more, please follow the Lee County Sheriff's Office Animal Cruelty Task Force on Facebook.
Don't miss this training opportunity!
Photos from Lee County Sheriff's Office's post
Photos from Lee County Sheriff's Office's post
Photos from Craven County Sheriff's Office - Animal Protective Services's post
Several deputies responded to a residence yesterday afternoon to assist a case manager in locating a missing and endangered adult female and her K-9, Delilah.
As deputies investigated, Delilah showed up, but quickly darted off to an area behind the residence. Deputies checked the backyard, exterior buildings and along the roadway, without any success.
While standing by for additional assistance, deputies spotted Delilah running in a nearby pasture. Several times, Delilah ran towards an area of the neighbor’s property and would periodically stop and look back at the deputies to make sure they were following her.
Delilah continued to lead deputies to a field east of the original residence. When scanning the area, deputies spotted the female lying down in the field approximately 1,000 feet southeast of her residence. Delilah ran right up to the female who had fallen. She was conscious, but weak and dehydrated.
The female was transported to an area hospital for treatment.
And as for Delilah, well she was rewarded with three hot dogs. Thanks for the assist, pup!
Sheriff Wellman, chair of the Animal Cruelty and Abuse Committee, talks the talk AND walks the (cat) walk!
Thank you for being a hero to animals, Sheriff!
So today was one for record books. Last night we got a call from a resident of Egan who advised her cat was on top of the elevator. With the darkness and unknown location of the adventurous feline, it was decided to see if it came down on its own. Well today it was determined he was still checking out the view. Sheriff Wellman contacted one of the workers of the elevator before using the staircase on the left bin of the two. Climbed 70' to the top of the bin, climbed over the grain handling system to access the cat walk. Traversed to the other side and was able to pick up a gentle scared feline who relinquished his view for a lift back to the ground. The subject did not resist or put up a struggle and seemed to snuggle in for the walk down the 70' to a loving family, food and water.
A judge has granted the Lee County Sheriff's office emergency custody of a dog being seen allegedly abused in a viral video.
https://www.fox4now.com/news/local-news/lee-county/lcso-wins-custody-of-dog-seen-in-viral-video
Poor Gunner - thankfully Deputies arrived just in time.
Gunner is being cared for by the Bella SPCA Rescue Center: https://www.facebook.com/BellaSPCARescueCenter
Thank you to Deputy Smith for rescuing him!
Great job by HCSO Deputy Smith for saving this dog, which was found running on the freeway.
Thank you Deputy Smith for reacting swiftly. Saving not only the dog's life, but human lives also by averting a potential crash.
Luckily the dog was chipped and the local vet will be contacting the owner. Hopefully the dog will soon be reunited with its owner.
HCSO MAP (Motorist Assistance Program) Deputies do more than just help stranded motorists.
***UPDATE: We have spoken to the owner of the dog!
The dog’s name is Bella, and she is 11-years old. The owner is out of town on a family emergency and the dog escaped. With so many people seeing and responding to our post, we were quickly able to connect the owner with Animal Control who currently has Bella. The owner has been in touch with Animal Control and Bella is doing much better. She will be reunited with her owner on Tuesday.***
Thank you to everyone who responded to our original post. Bella is loved and well cared for, and her owner looks forward to seeing her soon!
Thanks again to Officers Poirot and Welch who rescued Bella (aka, “Smiley”)!
Thanks to Officer Poirot and Welch who responded to a dog in distress near the 1600 Block of NW 45th Avenue. The dog was in Hogtown Creek and struggling to keep his head above water, nearly drowning. Officer Poirot jumped into the creek and rescued the dog, who appeared very old and weak.
We are affectionately naming him “Smiley” (due to a snaggle tooth protruding from his lip!). Great work Officers Poirot and Welch!
“I would’ve done the same thing whether it be baby, human, dog, cat,” Deputy Gregorek declared. “A life is a life. You kind of treat it as such in a situation like that.”
Buckle in for a very scary and dramatic story out of Douglas County Sheriff's Office Colorado!
A Colorado police officer melted pooch lovers’ hearts after valiantly saving a dog from a burning car, as seen in this POV footage captured via his bodycam.
“My thought at that point was ‘he’s coming out with me regardless of whatever else might be happening,'” Michael Gregorek, a deputy with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, explained of the incident. The harrowing incident occurred Jan. 22 after the policeman was dispatched to the scene of a “vehicle fire,” a news source reported.
The hero cop said, “Once I arrived on scene, first thing I saw was a gentleman who ended up being the owner of the vehicle, and the owner of the dog, throwing something at the back of vehicle.”
Initially thinking it was someone tossing “Molotov cocktails,” Gregorek caught wise to the dire situation after the man screamed, “My dog’s in the car.”
“It flipped the switch from ‘It’s obviously not a crime’ to ‘Now we have a life,'” said the determined deputy, who owns a dog himself.
The POV footage, uploaded to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office page, shows Gregorek shattering the windows of the smoking SUV with a baton before pulling the distressed doggo, named Hank, to safety.
The self-proclaimed “dog parent” painted the nail-biting scene in the Facebook clip:
“Hank comes to the back window, he’s salivating, you can tell that he’s in distress,” Gregorek described. “The owner was trying to pull him out, not successfully.”
The lawman continued, “That’s his baby, I’m not going to get in his way while he’s trying to rescue his baby but the second he opens up an opening for me I just went in there and grabbed on and his body had already started to tense up, so I knew he was really in a bad way.”
Despite the danger from the smoke and fire, “nothing else really mattered at that point other than getting Hank out of the car”.
The officer reportedly ran the dog out into the snow and informed the firefighters that Hank was clear of the blaze, per the cop’s account. Meanwhile, one of the neighbors, who’d given Gregorek a drink of water as he saw him coughing, had informed him that his wife was a veterinarian and could examine the pooch when she got home.
“She checked him out, checked his gums,” said Hank’s guardian angel, although he explained that by the time she’d arrived, the lucky pup was already up and “sprinting around the backyard ready to play.”
“I went over and gave him a good pet and he’s good,” the deputy added.
“I would’ve done the same thing whether it be baby, human, dog, cat,” Gregorek declared. “A life is a life. You kind of treat it as such in a situation like that.”
-Original story posted by NyPost
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“He was locked up, and I was locked up,” he said. “We’d both gone through some tough things in life. And now we were both getting a second chance.”
“We’d both gone through some tough things in life," Kelvin Simmons said about the dog he is training as part of a diversion program.
Over the weekend, Sgt. Pittman was called upon to rescue a baby opossum. The little opossum had been separated from mom and would have likely not survived. After a little bonding time, Sgt. Pittman named her Emmy and deemed her his new beat partner before passing her over to a local rehabilitation program.
Update from the recent case with the Lee County Sheriff's Office
What great news!!
Check out this upcoming webinar from the The Humane Society of the United States, featuring Sheriff Jack Laurie (Atchison County Sheriff's Office), Sheriff Javier Salazar (Bexar County Sheriff's Office), Sheriff Matt Lutz (Muskingum County Sheriff's Office), and Tim Harrison (former LEO and Big Cat Advocate).
Register here: https://humanesociety.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ch4edeKZSZ67F1UYooHTjA.
Sheriff Carmine Marceno from the Lee County Sheriff's Office gives an update on recent dogfighting in his county - a father and son were arrested and it's the largest dog fighting case in recent Lee County history. 16 dogs were rescued - all are still alive.
"Unfortunately, because it's illegal, I can't treat these two disgusting humans the way they treated these dogs. My jail is far cleaner and far safer," Sheriff Marceno said.
"If you are committing any crime on an animal, my team will investigate you. We will hunt you down and take you to jail,” he continued. 👏👏
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