The Pet Placement Center Executive Director Charles Brown visits with a quarantined dog that is blind and suffering from mange that was recently rescued. The Pet Placement Center in Red Bank is caring for more than 20 of the 240 dogs were rescued this week from a puppy mill in Bradley County. The recent addition has doubled the center’s dog quantity but once they are nursed back to health, they will be available for adoption. The Pet Placement is Chattanooga’s oldest nonprofit, no-kill shelter according to Executive Director Charles Brown.McDONALD, Tenn. – Small-breed dogs seized last month from a McDonald puppy mill are now finding homes locally and abroad.
“We have received a lot of public interest in these dogs even before we had them in our care,” said Tricia Sebes, animal care coordinator for McKamey Animal Center in Chattanooga. “The day the story broke people were calling us asking if we had taken any of the dogs.”
McKamey recently received 15 dogs from the Humane Society of the United States, which took possession of just over 100 of 247 animals that were discovered in overcrowded and filthy cages while Bradley County sheriff deputies were responding to a “verbal domestic” situation on June 11.
Four of the dogs received by McKamey have been adopted and the remaining 11 are available for adoption, Sebes said.
During the two-week period following the discovery of the puppy mill, the Humane Society set up a temporary shelter in Charleston, Tenn., where the recovered animals were assessed and treated.