Animal Cruelty

When Sour Lake, Texas, residents Harvey and Sandra Sterling went to a relative’s house on August 29, 2017, they had little sense of the severe peril they and their two dogs, Lady and Duchess, would soon be facing due to Hurricane Harvey.

“We had gone just two streets over,” recalls Sandra, adding that Lady, a 13-year-old Golden Retriever, and their 12-year-old Labrador-mix, Duchess, remained at home. But due to the raging storm, the Sterlings were forced to stay at her brother’s house all night.

Dogs in cruel breeding facilities (a.k.a. puppy mills) are generally already condemned to an existence of neglect and suffering. Yet occasionally stories of breeder cruelty come to light that far surpass even the predictably dire conditions.