Texas SPCA find 22 dogs in car with incoherent owner

[underpants]

This picture provided by the SPCA shows a car containing 22 dogs in Pottsboro, Texas on Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. North Texas authorities seized 22 dogs found crammed inside the station wagon with their owner. The owner locked the car doors and refused to come out when a constable tried to serve her a warrant, said SPCA spokeswoman Maura Davies.
(AP Photo/SPCA)
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SPCA takes in 22 dogs found in filthy station wagon
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/collin/mckinney/stories/DN-dogs_10met.ART.State.Edition1.4c115a6.html
Twenty-two dogs found confined to a station wagon were seized by the SPCA of Texas on Monday morning and taken to an animal shelter in McKinney, SPCA officials said.

Investigators from the SPCA got a tip about a car parked along an unmarked road near the police station in Pottsboro, about 80 miles north of Dallas.

When a Grayson County constable tried to serve a warrant around 9 a.m., a woman in the car locked the doors and refused to come out, said Maura Davies, a spokeswoman for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Inside, 20 adult dogs and two newborn puppies – appearing to be papillons and long-haired Chihuahuas – were crowded in among blankets, a pot of water and waste. Investigators don't know how long the dogs had been in the car.

Davies said the owner wasn't coherent, and the SPCA has contacted Adult Protective Services.

[ferrous wheel]

1. And we thought Octamom was goofy...

:eyes:

[Cleita]

2. The little dogs are really cute. n/t

[cornermouse]

3. That's very sad.

I wonder if she's a stroke victim.

[Cleita]

5. I was wondering if she was someone who had recently become homeless

because of some debilitating illness that forced her out of her home.

[alsame]

7. I thought that too. Pedigree dogs and it looks like they have collars

and tags. I'd bet they had a home in the not too distant past. Very sad.

[TexasObserver]

4. Nayda Suleman again?!

[NV Whino]

6. If I were in a car with 22 dogs,

I'd be incoherent too.