Eastern Mo. handler faces charges in dogs' deaths
July 7, 2009 5:01:00 am
- Associated Press
HILLSBORO, Mo. — An eastern Missouri dog handler faces criminal charges after seven of eight show dogs left in her care died after being left overnight in a hot van.
Mary Wild of Arnold was charged Monday in Jefferson County Circuit Court with seven counts of animal abuse.
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on its Web site that Wild was free on $2,500 bond. Calls to a telephone listed in her name were unanswered Monday night.
Wild arrived home with the dogs from a show in Iowa around 1 a.m. on June 22. She told police she planned to put the dogs in kennels in her garage but, because of the heat, decided to leave them in portable kennels in a van. She said she set up fans, opened a door open, and left windows partly open.
Authorities say temperatures in the van may have reached 120 degrees.
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Information from St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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