Lin Bruno plead guilty to thirteen counts of cruelty to animals, she also plead guilty to two counts of tampering with records.
She will be sentanced Oct 5th and could face jail time, each count carries a five thousand dollar fine, and and two years in jail.If found guilty on all counts, she is facing a max of twenty eight years in prison, and seventy five thousand dollars in fines.
She also must pay $200,000 to the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in restitution for caring for mistreated animals.
This case has dragged on for months, and has caused division among the cat rescue community. Now that it is over, I hope laws can be put into place to stop a travesty like this from every happening again.
http://www.wpxi.com/news/20038405/detail.html
Please take a look at this link as well, it tells the story of how cats poured in to Tiger Ranch from other states, healthy happy cats, who ended up God knows where.
http://www.wpxi.com/news/16264107/detail.html
People were lead to belive these cats were being adopted out.
In sadness,
Misty
She will be sentanced Oct 5th and could face jail time, each count carries a five thousand dollar fine, and and two years in jail.If found guilty on all counts, she is facing a max of twenty eight years in prison, and seventy five thousand dollars in fines.
She also must pay $200,000 to the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in restitution for caring for mistreated animals.
This case has dragged on for months, and has caused division among the cat rescue community. Now that it is over, I hope laws can be put into place to stop a travesty like this from every happening again.
http://www.wpxi.com/news/20038405/detail.html
Please take a look at this link as well, it tells the story of how cats poured in to Tiger Ranch from other states, healthy happy cats, who ended up God knows where.
http://www.wpxi.com/news/16264107/detail.html
People were lead to belive these cats were being adopted out.
Sad and disturbing, a pall has fallen over the rescue community here in Pittsburgh. We are trying to make something good come of this, and make sure nothing like this can ever happen again. The undercover video and the pictures used in court are all over the net, I simply do not have the heart to post them here.Dasenbrock said, "We assumed that our animals, our cats were going up and being adopted out on the weekends to homes because we had heard there was a shortage of animals to be adopted up there. We sent beautiful cats up there, very adoptable, very healthy cats up there."
Dasenbrock also said Bruno never turn cats away. "She never said well I can't take any more, so we kept continuing rescuing them here because they would've been just euthanized or gassed here in Georgia," she said.
In sadness,
Misty