May Justice Be Served

This has been a big story on our area the last couple of days. I just hope they make these three people serve time!! I think that it's humans that need to be spayed and neutered sometimes!!!

Story from our local station:

Three people arrested after allegedly throwing puppies out of vehicle

Cooperstown Mayor Danny Crosby (center) and officers from the Cooperstown Police Department showed some of the 15 puppies that Crosby and others found on a rural road on Sunday.

Twenty puppies, along with two mama dogs, were allegedly thrown out of a vehicle into the road and a wooded area.

All of the 14 surviving puppies found have now been adopted, along with their mothers. One puppies has since died, and five puppies have not been located.

Donald Hackett, Kimberly Beard and William Milliken have been charged with 22 counts apiece of animal cruelty.

Three people have now been charged with 66 counts of animal cruelty in Coopertown. This comes after someone threw puppy after puppy out of a vehicle onto a country road.

Coopertown Mayor Danny Crosby is outraged by what someone did with two litters of puppies.

"This is just bad, and as mayor of this city I am not going to tolerate anyone mistreating a little animal like this or a grown animal," said Crosby.

Crosby got a call Sunday from a neighbor who saw three people throwing puppies and two mama dogs out of a truck.

"Several of them covered in fleas and ticks," said Crosby. "Some of them had blisters. The mother dogs have blisters."

When Crosby arrived on the scene, he found puppies all over the road and in the woods. He found people as well, trying to rescue them. They located 15 puppies. He's since learned there were 20 puppies in all.

"We've researched and combed the area down the slope to the creek, all the way up to the bridge of both sides of the road," he said.

Police traced a license tag number to a house in Cheatham County, and talked with a woman there.

"Asked her why," said Coopertown Police Officer Jonathon Coulon. "She said the dogs were covered in fleas and ticks. They didn't want the dogs around their children. Why they didn't take them to the vet, I don't know."

Now police have charged three people - the woman's uncle, William Milliken, Donald Hackett and Kimberly Beard, with 22 counts each of animal cruelty. All the puppies located have homes now, along with the mama dogs. But Mayor Crosby still wonders about the other five.

"Hopefully someone stopped and picked them up, hopefully," he said.

Crosby wants anyone who stopped to pick up the puppies to contact him so he can account for each one. He says one of the puppies rescued Sunday has since died.

The mayor of Cooperstown sure sounds like a VERY animal friendly guy!!