Prosecution of Woman Who Rescued Animals Amid Hurricane Florence Shows No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

[rangerrebew]

Prosecution of Woman Who Rescued Animals Amid Hurricane Florence Shows No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Amanda Botts / John-Michael Seibler / October 01, 2018

During Hurricane Florence, a North Carolina woman, Tammie Hedges, graciously took more than two dozen animals into a warehouse that she is converting into an animal shelter.

Using supplies purchased with private donations, Hedges offered the space—as part of her nonprofit, no-kill animal shelter, Crazy’s Claws N’ Paws—for animals to stay in while their owners evacuated.

Hedges and volunteers stated that the animals were “to be returned to their owners after the storm.”

One might expect heartwarming stories of the animals Hedges helped, or perhaps her nomination for an animal caretaker “hero award.”

https://www.dailysignal.com//print?post_id=440767

[verga]

Time would better be spent prosecuting the people that left the animals behind.

[Gefn]

Hurray

[Sanguine]

The Wayne County District Attorney’s Office deserves kudos for dropping the charges against Hedges on Sept. 25.

[Sanguine]

Time would better be spent prosecuting the people that left the animals behind.

If you're staying at a shelter, you can't take your animals. 

[thackney]

If you're staying at a shelter, you can't take your animals.

During Hurricane Harvey, some shelters opened to include pets.  Our church took us in one night with my Father-in-Laws small dog.

https://abc13.com/pets-animals/harvey-tested-co-sheltering-pets-with-their-families/4014007/

[verga]

If you're staying at a shelter, you can't take your animals.

You sure don't leave them chained up to drown.

[austingirl]

Time would better be spent prosecuting the people that left the animals behind.

Amen to that!

[austingirl]

If you're staying at a shelter, you can't take your animals.

I thought that was changing after the horror stories from Harvey. I remember some shelters caring for pets. It is the right thing to do.

[Sanguine]

You sure don't leave them chained up to drown.

No, but no one here suggested that you would.   

And, mine would go with me wherever I went.

[Fishrrman]

From the source article (title doesn't make this clear):

"Fortunately, this story has a silver lining.

The Wayne County District Attorney’s Office deserves kudos for dropping the charges against Hedges on Sept. 25.

In a statement, District Attorney Matthew Delbridge noted that Hedges has “previously been censured for the unauthorized practice of veterinary medicine” and claimed that, this time, Hedges was “taking advantage of a dire situation to solicit money and opioid narcotics.”

But “having ensured the safety of the animals in question,” Delbridge added, “a dismissal of these criminal charges will minimize further distraction from my core mission of protecting the public from violent crime.”

It will also “allow the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Board to take whatever action they may deem appropriate.”

Whether or not the board seeks to enjoin Hedges from giving other animals basic medical care, or takes some other administrative action, the district attorney’s office has done the right thing by dropping the charges against Hedges."