Albans, Vermont: reported that several former employees as well as current and former volunteers of a self-professed animal “rescue” doing business as Franklin County Animal Rescue had alleged that animals in the group’s custody were routinely neglected and denied adequate medical care. According to the report, “Detectives say the two women were performing animal rescue work for the Trap, Neuter and Return program.” A court date was set in the case.

The cats were abandoned in August and had reportedly not been found.

September 2022/Long Island, New York: reported that two women, Crystal Cahill and Catherine Gropper, were facing cruelty-to-animals charges after they allegedly captured three cats in East Islip and then abandoned them in a park “several towns” away. Here are some of the “no-kill” animal shelter failures that made headlines in recent years for making animals suffer a fate far worse than a kind death. The lucky ones are taken to well-run open-admission animal shelters, where they either find a well-screened, permanent home or are painlessly euthanized in the arms of professionally trained, compassionate people.

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