[Sir Taliesin]

Happens here too. Most of the time these people that keep animals like that tend to be old and/or a brick shy of a load. They start out with the best of intentions in giving animals homes, but as they bring in more and more animals they eventually get overwhelmed. the sad part about it is many of these animals are typically put down, because they are too far to sick.

I'd estimate we have at least a case or two a year like that in East Tennessee. The really sad cases in my mind occur when the authorities catch people for the second time for this.

Don't forget folks, that there are simply tons of animals in your local shelters and varoius rescue organizations that are literally "Dying" to find a new home.

And While I'm on the subject, if anyone lives here in the south and would like to adopt a Basset Hound, Basset Hound Rescue of Georgia is in DIRE need of people to adopt their dogs! Here is their website. You can go to their website and view many of their dogs. We adopted one last year and she has been a great dog! Loves the couch and loves my lap! We'd get another one, but we have two dogs now (the other is a Red-bone mix we got from our local animal shelter).