Virginia animal shelter could face criminal charges: ‘Extremely hard to stomach’

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, Va. — A state investigation into the Brunswick County Animal Shelter may lead to prison fees towards the animal management officers on the facility.

The Brunswick County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to satisfy subsequent week to vote on whether or not to permit the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Division to take over the shelter after the State Workplace of Veterinary Companies discovered a number of violations on the Lawrenceville shelter.

These violations embrace:

• The animals not appropriately fed
• The ability not saved clear, dry, and sanitary
• Sufficient care not supplied for seven canine confined within the facility on the time of the inspection
• Animals euthanized in a way that doesn’t adjust to strategies established by the state veterinarian

“They did a really thorough, detailed inspection and located numbers, quite a few deficiencies,” Brunswick County Supervisor John Zubrod, who represents the Meherrin District, stated. “It is extraordinarily exhausting to abdomen. It simply is just not proper to do this to the animals.”

Animal rights advocate and shelter volunteer Rachel Corridor met with county administration final October to specific her concern over what she noticed contained in the shelter.

“I’ve footage of the identical feces being within the kennel for six days,” she stated. “I [said], by definition, you have got animal cruelty happening in your shelter.”

Corridor additionally alleged the shelter put down some animals that didn’t have to be euthanized.

“Throughout a three-week interval this final summer time, to my finest recollection, there have been 16 canine euthanized,” she stated. “A number of of them we had rescues for.”

In court docket on Thursday, the Brunswick Commonwealth’s Lawyer and Sheriff’s Workplace have been recused from the case because of their working relationship with the county authorities.

The decide appointed a particular prosecutor for the case transferring ahead.

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