Thank you Barbara - this is a wonderful idea & will be such an inspiration to the rest of us elsewhere who look to the BF Pahrump rescue for hope and "all happy endings."

What an awesome idea!!! You must own stock in the company that makes Kleenex.

GREAT idea - looking forward to reading about all the happy endings!

Charges filed in animal abuse case

by Michael Di Massa
Mirror Staff

Pahrump resident Sharon Allen has been formally charged with 13
counts of animal cruelty. The charges are related to her private
animals, which were seized from her residence last August.
Allen faces 11 counts of depriving necessary food or drink and
failing to provide medical attention for upper respiratory infection.
She also faces one count of failing to provide potable water and
confining cats within an unsanitary environment.
On Aug. 1, 2007 Allen was arrested and initially charged with cruelty
to 125 animals after Deputy Dawn Moore and Nye County Animal Control
Supervisor Tim McCarty were allowed onto her property to interview
her about the situation at the For the Love of Cats and Kittens
(FLOCK) sanctuary.
About a month earlier, Nye County took over the FLOCK facility, where
an estimated 700 cats were found with various illnesses. Allen had
been the president of FLOCK, but stepped down two months before the
county stepped in.
Thus far, neither Allen nor FLOCK management have been charged with
improper care at the FLOCK facility.
In an August 2007 Pahrump Justice Court session that spanned two
days, Nye County was successful in getting authority to adopt, care
for or euthanize the cats taken from Allen's home. The animals,
mostly cats, were then handed over to the care of Best Friends Animal
Society to adopt them out. Some of them were reportedly euthanized.
Best Friends was also in Pahrump at the time helping to sort out the
cats at the FLOCK facility.
In a statement filed by the Nye County Sheriff's Office after Allen's
arrest, the environment some of the cats were kept in is described as
having "feces on the table tops, blankets, floor, shelves, desk, in
water and food dishes, on chairs and splattered on the walls. There
were about forty (40) cats in that room and the vast majority of them
were ill, some severely."
Allen has since refuted some of those claims, stating some of the
"feces" is actually caulking used, in one area, to hold a shelf in
place. Other walls are stained, but have been cleaned, she said.
Allen also admitted that her property, where she operates a
crematorium, was never 100 percent clean, but maintains it was not as
filthy as the sheriff's office described it.
In an interview last week, Allen said she was glad when the charges
were filed, saying she will not have the opportunity to prove her
innocence. After her cats were taken, Allen was the victim of crank
phone calls and saw her business revenue drop off.
While she acknowledges some of her cats had upper respiratory
infections, she said at least one came to her property ill and that
she was treating all ill cats with medication, going so far as to
voluntarily drop it off at the animal shelter after the cats were
taken by Nye County. She also showed The Mirror a plastic tub full of
medicine she received from veterinarians to treat various illnesses.
Feline Upper Respiratory Infection has been described as comparable
to the human common cold. It is infectious, but rarely fatal, and
will run its course like a cold, as long as the secondary bacterial
infections are properly treated.
Allen also said she was unsure about the charge for failing to
provide potable water, suspecting there may have been some algae left
in one of the bowls, but that she, or one of her staff, changed the
cats' water daily

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Barbara - What a wonderful idea and I am so enjoying reading all the happy endings - it helps to take away a lot of the pain and suffering we experienced at Pahrump - although i was never at the facility, I felt the pain from afar. Thank you.
Cheryl

Barbara what a great idea. These special animals have touched all of our hearts. My beautiful Red boy Elmer and my shiny Black boy Emmett are both doing wonderful having doubled their weight. I will send a pictures of both soon.