Help me save these poor animals! Please!

[lovingisliving76]

I would like as much advice on this as I can get. I am in a bit of a sticky situation. My moms husband is REAL big into having many animals. From Dogs, cats, goats, rabbits, chickens, ducks etc etc. The thing is I don't think he deserves to have them. In 1998 my husband got stationed to Korea for a year. I didn't live near my mom nor did I have a good relationship with her due to some problems with them and my baby sister. Anyways, I moved to their area while my husband was away to try and build a better relationship with them. Well while I was there I saw things that really bothered me. But I didn't know what to do about them. Like they had rabbit cages in the back yard with a dog in one of them. A cockerspaniel I believe. It didn't even have a bottom to it just the wire. Not that a bottom would have made it better. I talked to them about it and my mom was neutral but her husband saw nothing wrong with it. After months I finally convinced them to get a big dog house and make her an area she could be on a tie out at least. They had goats and everything. The goats were always on a chain like dogs are. None of their animals had complete shelter from the weather. It broke my heart as an animal lover myself. Due to health reasons her husband was unable to "care" for the anmals as "well" as he use to. Not that I think that was real care. They ended up getting rid of most of them. Well now I live in Germany and they have moved. I was talking to my mom on the phone not long ago and somehow we got to talking about animals. She said they now have around 120 animals of all kinds!!! I from personal experience have seen how their animals are cared for or the lack there of. So I am frantic to find a way to help the animals. ANy advice?? I don't personally want to report them, because my mom isn't the one buying or caring for them. It is her husband. Plus I am not there to see first hand how the animals are living now. What do you all recommend? I really need advice on this one! Thanks for reading this long post !

[kimlovescats]

Hmmm, that is definitely a difficult spot to be in for you. Not living near them will make it almost impossible to know how the conditions really are. I don't really think there is much you can do at this point. Maybe you could contact someone who lives near them to go by and check out the situation, other than that I think you are helpless on this right now. Of course, you could contact their local animal control and have them do an inspection, and request to remain anonymous? Good luck!

kim

[PayItForward]

I agree get the experts in to assess the situation.

No harm done if the animals are being properly looked after and if they are getting over welmed by the numbers of animals the experts can rehome the majority, so they are down to reasonable numbers.

I wonder if you mums husband is suffering minor mental health problems, he sounds like a typical collector, who thinks he is 'saving' animals but in reality he has too many to deal with.

For instance thinking it is acceptable to keep rabbit cages in the back yard with a dog in one of them, is very worrying.

I mean 120 medium to large animals (anything bigger than a rabbit) takes a lot of time and money to look after properly.

I hope everything is alright with your family and their animals.

[catmandu]

ThaT IS SAD,WHEN PEOPLE,IN TRYING TO HELP,TAKE ON MORE aNIMALS,THAN THEY CAN PROPERLY CARE,FOR,AS THE pORCH cATS,COME,FROM A hOUSE UP,THE STRET,WHERE TYHEY ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE hOUSE,AFTER THEY MATURE!