On the evening of June 7, the Mercer Humane Society was contacted by a Mercer County Animal Control Officer regarding two dogs who were found in critical condition and in need of immediate medical intervention.
The dogs were in an advanced state of starvation.
ABC 36 reports that a neighbor called the Mercer County Sheriff’s Office after seeing the dogs whom ABC 36 identified as Titan and Rocket.
One dog was left free roaming while the other one had been left inside of a cage.
According to a Facebook post by the Mercer Humane Society/Kentucky, the furbabies were abandoned by their guardians “several months ago and left behind with no care and no plan, to starve and die.”
The nonprofit provided the dogs with basic care overnight, and the following day, the furbabies were placed in the care of the Commonwealth Animal Hospital.
In an update, the Mercer Humane Society said that both dogs had two and a half weeks of small meals as part of the special re-feeding program required to treat starvation.
As if the situation was not severe enough, the furbabies also had to fight pneumonia, severe anemia, and surgery to remove rocks from the gut that were ingested for lack of food!
Two soulless and heartless individuals have been identified in this case as those who abandoned the dogs as if they were trash.
KATRINA NICOLE CAIN and MICHALE CAIN abandoned the VOICELESS VICTIMS before moving to Liberty and are now facing four counts of animal cruelty, which are Misdemeanors under Kentucky law.
On Monday, June 27, they faced a judge at the Mercer County District Court for their arraignment and pleaded not guilty.
Online court records show that KATRINA NICOLE CAIN’s pre-trial conference is scheduled for August 11, 2022, at 1:30 p.m.
If you wish and can afford to help the Mercer County Humane Society and the Commonwealth Animal Hospital with the medical expenses, please call the hospital at: (859) - 734 - 2245 and the Mercer County Humane Society at: (859) - 734 - 9500. Thank you!
Voice For Us believes that Titan and Rocket’s pictures with their ribs showing should plaster every single empty wall in Kentucky and should not be taken down until lawmakers take animal cruelty SERIOUSLY and modify the existing ridiculous law.
Look at that poor dog and tell me how is that a MISDEMEANOR!?
That’s not a parking violation! That’s a precious life that was treated as if it was trash!
ANY act of animal cruelty must be classified as a Felony nationwide!
Lesser classifications trivialize the act itself, and do not serve as a strong enough deterrent for future crimes.
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