Pet Placement Center Executive Director Charles Brown visits with quarantined dogs that are suffering from mange that were rescued this week from a home in Bradley County, Tenn.McDONALD, Tenn. – A 911 call gave the first hint that countless numbers of dogs were living in squalor on a breeder’s property.
Debra Singleton is divorcing her husband and was attempting to leave her in-laws’ residence, where she had been living, but called Bradley County 911 on Wednesday morning to report that the in-laws had locked her out before she could get all her stuff packed into her car.
“Says hundreds of dogs on the property,” the 911 report states. “Says that is one reason for her divorce because she is having to live in these conditions.”
There were dead and sick dogs everywhere on the property at 1420 Candies Creek Road SW, Singleton told 911.
No dead animals were reported by the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office or SPCA of Bradley County. But they did find more than 240 dogs kept in feces-covered pens and kennels — sometimes stacked on top of other kennels, said Detective Brandon Edwards.