Represents the largest municipality in Butler County, Ohio. Our mission is embodied in our commitment to public safety through community engagement designed to support the vision of Hamilton as a purposeful destination to work, live, and play. If you mistreat animals like this, you will go to jail.To provide exceptional police service for a better Hamilton. "This level of neglect and cruelty will never be tolerated in this county. "In over forty years, this is the worst case I have ever seen," Jones said. He said shelters exist to help people before it reaches that point, and suggested people reach out to their local shelter before it reaches the point of criminality.Īccording to a press release from the Butler County Sheriff's Office, a bond hearing for Murphy will be scheduled for later this week. "Really, that's the big thing," Anderson said, "transparency."Īnderson said amateur rescues that get out of control usually start with the good intentions of helping animals in need, but become too much to handle. He said reputable rescues should be posting recent pictures or videos of multiple animals around their facility, and the same should be true for any rescue's social media presence. If a person can't make a trip to see a property with their own eyes, Anderson suggested doing thorough research online. "If someone is telling you they'll meet you at the Ikea parking lot or some other public space versus seeing how the animal is living, that would be a red flag for me."
"Go some place where you can actually see the living conditions of the animals," Anderson said. He said rescues can range from large operations dealing with hundreds of animals to a single person housing a couple of dogs off the street, but a person attempting to surrender their pet may never know what they're dealing with if they don't do their due diligence. "A lot of folks, they don't know the difference between a shelter and a rescue," Anderson said. The conditions at Helping Hands for Furry paws was a night and day difference from Cincinnati Animal Care where volunteers spent Saturday afternoon beautifying the property and 40 to 50 employees, like Ray Anderson, work daily to make sure the roughly 8,000 animals who pass through their facility annually are cared for. "This one was nursing other pups, and you can see ribs hanging out, so, pretty nasty stuff." The rest were either too decomposed or liquefied to move, investigators said.īutler County officials, like Sheriff Richard Jones, said the conditions were some of the worst ever seen by sheriff's deputies and dog warden investigators. The remaining 86 dogs were taken to the Animal Friends Humane Society of Butler County for evaluation and treatment.Īccording to court documents, only 18 bodies of the 30 dead dogs were able to be recovered. PREVIOUS: Nearly 90 living and 30 dead dogs found at animal rescue in Madison Township She's scheduled for another hearing on August 9. In total, Murphy must pay $500 to be released on bond. On Wednesday a judge set Murphy's bond at 10% of $2,500 for the felony count she faces and 10% of $2,500 for the two misdemeanor charges.
The 60-year-old had been hospitalized but now she's housed in the Middletown Jail and is facing multiple cruelty to companion animal charges. Ronda Murphy's home was raided late last month. MADISON TWP., Ohio - The owner of Helping Hands for Furry Paws animal rescue has been arrested after the discovery of nearly 120 dogs, 30 of which were found dead in freezers, according to the Butler County Sheriff's Office.
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