CO kennel in Norway closed down by authorities « Thread Started on Jun 25, 2008, 2:17am »
Caucasian Ovcharka kennel in Norway have been closed down by the animal health authorities.
The kennel have kept Caucasian Ovtcharka's since 1997 and had a world winner of the breed Caucasian Ovtcharka in 2006. The breeder claim to be one of the most winning kennels in the world with her dogs.
The kennel also keep or have kept dogs of the following breeds: Miniature Pinscher, Briard, Doberman, English Bulldog and Mastino Napoletano. In addition to alot of puppies of mixes between the above mentioned breeds.
The kennel owner are responsible for one of the worst cases we have ever seen of cruelty to dogs in Norway ever.
Below is links to some of the articles that have been in the news in Norway about the case.
Re: CO kennel in Norway closed down by authorities « Reply #1 on Jul 17, 2008, 3:25pm »
Petition aginst the Dorweigan Food Safety Authority
In spite of the fact that witnesses have describe the kennel conditions as the worst they have seen and Food Safety Authority itself has gone on the record whit pages of pages with abuse and cruelty, the Food Safety Authority has made a decision that a woman can get to keep 4 dogs. Enough is enough, we ask that the Norwegian Food Safety Authority revoke this decision when it is absolutely clear that this kennelowner is irresponsible. There is a great responsibility to manage a dogKennel og to own dogs, and Food Safety Authority should clearly intervene.
We want a visible, strong and seriously Animal Welfare in Norway. The hole situation shows that we clearly dont have that in this country.
People who loves animals in Norway and all over the world are donating money to help the new owners of the abused dogs from the Caucasian Ovcharka Kennel in Norway.
Re: CO kennel in Norway closed down by authorities « Reply #4 on Aug 6, 2008, 4:14pm »
Some information in english. To follow the case, check new links in the first post in this tread. This tread are updated daily with the progress in the case.
On august 21st some part of the case will come up in court in Norway.
25 dogs were seized from CO-breeder in Norway, Friday, May 16th. I thought I'd post the articles from her local newspaper here. I'm sorry if the translations are poor. The articles can be seen in Norwegian in the links.
Animal Welfare demands that the woman in Åsnes must lose the right to own dogs.
The woman had 48 dogs during inspections in February this year, and this week she was reported to the Police by Animal Welfare officials in Solør and by Mattilsynet (the head official organisation).
The owner herself says that the case is caused by lack of knowledge about the breeds she owns (see separate case). But the woman has, in spite of repeated visits and guidance, not shown will to follow rules, laws and normal welfare custom when it comes to handling her own dogs and dogs she has had in for rehoming, says Animal Welfare official of Solør and Mattilsynet in an extensive report.
Functioning district Chief of Mattilsynet, Helge Heimstad, says to Glåmdalen (the newspaper) that he can not think of any similar case from his time at Mattilsynet. This case is not about dogs that freeze to death or starve to death, it is the extent of her dogkeeping and the situation itself for the animals over a long period of time that makes this case special.
The dog owner is this week reported to the Police, and it is said in the report that they wish her to lose the right to own dogs.
-Has sold for 850.000kr
Police in Åsnes has not yet had time to investigate the case. According to Åsnes-police Bjørn Trumet it is not an option at this time that the police takes care of the dogs.
An eleven page report about inspections 8th and 29th of February this year, and references to a long line of "concern reports" and earlier inspections all the way back to 2001, describes many incidents as background for the police reports. According to Norwegian Kennel Club, the woman has been registered with 163 dogs since 1997, of which 57 puppies can not be accounted for. And even though the woman according to the report claims to only have dogs as a hobby, inspectors have seized contracts of a total of 106 dogs, amounting to a total of 844.605kr.
-Aggressive and ungroomed
In the report, there is descriptions of high mortality rate, sick dogs, dirty dogs with ungroomed coats, dogs with injuries from figthing, aggresive dogs and puppies that seem severely unsocialised and afraid of humans. Puppies and adults alike had no access to water, which the dog owner claimed was unnecessary because the dogs could eat snow. None of the womans outside dogpens had satisfactory shelter/rooms for dogs, the report says. During an inspection where two policemen were present, the police had to rescue a puppy that got out of its pen and went into the pen of another pack of dogs, where it was aggressively attacked. The report also mentions suspicions of illegal import of dogs.
- Shot dog was alive
It is also referenced to a report to officials from 2006 about a dog that was shot several times before it died the next day. And during an inspection the woman told officials about a puppy she killed by throwing it into a wall, and she defended herself saying that a veterinarian told her to do it this way.
The police confiscated a lot of medication for animals, and there was found a great amount of syringes and needles for veterinary use and also surgical instruments. The police have received video footage from the inspections, says Heimstad to Glåmdalen."
Also, in the newspaper (not in the internet version), there was a little case where she had spoken to the paper. Here it is:
"Blames it on lack of knowledge"
The reported Åsnes-woman says that reports by animal welfare and police are due to lack of knowledge about her dogs. She has amonst other things specialised herself in breeding a breed that is expected to be reserved towards strangers. The dog owner says much of the negative description of her dogs is due to misunderstandings and lack of knowledge.
Glåmdalen has been in contact with the woman, who does not want her name publicised. She bluntly rejects the very negative report from Animal Welfare officials and Mattilsynet and says that this is very difficult for her. She says she can find no words as to the demand that she loses the right to own dogs, and she defends her dogkeeping among other statements like this: You can not create a World Winner if you don't care for your dogs properly. And she adds that she is very careful about who she sells dogs to. Today she does not have 48 dogs as the report states, but 22 adults and 10 puppies, she says. Glåmdalen knows that there has been controversy about her dogkeeping in the past, from neighbours that have complained about dogs running loose, and there have also been several police reports. "
Animal Welfare in Solør has sent a 22 page document to the womans attorney, explaining why a unanomous board feels her dogkeeping must be stopped.
The board concludes that several serious violations of animal welfare law has been comitted. The dog owner lacks will to follow the laws, and has according to the board negligated the rules over a long period of time. The dog owner was earlier this spring reported to the police.
After the police report, animal welfare officials were on a new inspection April 15th. At that time, a series of dog carcasses was dug out from a pile of horse manour, and 23 cranies were sent to the Veterinary Institute for examination. Four skulls had bullet holes. One of them had four bullet holes, but none of the bullets had reached the brain. This is said to correspond well to a report about a dog being shot and left for dead, but that turned out to be still alive the next day.
-Bitten to death and eaten
The dog owner first claimed to have no knowledge of the carcasses and claimed that others must have put them there, but later admitted to have put them there herself, but not to have killed them. She also confirmed that several puppies were bitten to death by other dogs in the fall of 2007, and that one dog was suffocated in her car in the summer of 2007.
The report is full of other shocking details, and it is referenced to a number of reports from veterinarians and vet clinics. Dead puppies eaten by an adult dog, dogs in seriously bad shape due to bitewounds lacking stitches, dogs without access to water (the owner said this was unnecessary because the dogs could eat snow), are all mentioned.
-Special "teddy bear"
Also mentioned is a four week old puppy that she killed by throwing it into a wall. Illegal medicating and euthanasia of dogs that she has herself performed with drugs is also included in the demand that the dogkeeping must stop. In the report, information that the dog owner herself has put online, is used as documentation. It is also told about a dog that, according to the owner, was put to sleep by a vet due to bad temper, while at the same time the dog was repeatedly advertised online (for sale) as a "cuddly teddy bear".
The dog owner was earlier this spring reported to the police by animal welfare officials. They made a decision to close down her dogkeeping a few days ago, and went into action assisted by the police this Friday.
19 adults and six puppies were taken into custody. Three dogs, which were not possible to capture, were euthanized, says the police, and this is confirmed by the leader of the animal welfare board, Bente Hauge.
-Temporary custody
She and fucntioning leader of Mattilsynet (animal welfare) in Glåmdalen, Helge Heimstad, points out that this is just temporary custody.
The dog owner, which is not willing to comment to the paper, has three weeks to complain from the time she was told of the decision.
The dogs are now placed in a kennel, but where, the officials will not disclose at this time. The leader of the board has never before experienced that so many dogs have been seized.
-Ready for years
Animal Welfare has received "concern calls" about the dogkeeping throughout many years, and in the report after two inspections this winter, a series of issues were addressed. The woman, who runs a breeding kennel, had 48 dogs at that time.
In the reports, poor hygiene, ungroomed dogs, sickly puppies with bloated abdomens and unsocialized dogs were all mentioned, and in another report, the board wonders about the many deaths and extreme use of veterinary medication.
Police also confiscated vast quantities of prescription veterinary drugs. In a freezer, three dead puppies were found, later it was established that they all died from a bacterial infection. The dog owner has also admitted cheating when it comes to registering puppies in the Norwegian Kennel Club.
The dog owner has earlier claimed to Glåmdalen that the complaints and reports are due to lack of knowledge about the type of dogs she has. And the dog owner has replied by reporting animal welfare officials to the police for violation of confidentiality.
These two articles are in Norwgian, but they contain several pictures.
WARNING! These pictures might be disturbing to some.
The owner of the doghotel having two of the Åsnes dogs in custody, belive that the dogs are in so bad condition that euthanizing them seems to be the only solution.
Until the trial court of Oslo have processed the petition on august 21st, the relocated dogs from the kennel in Hedemark can stay with their new owners.
20 of the 22 dogs that were deprived of the kennel owner in Hedemark, have been rehomed after their first staying at Standal hundehotell in Hakadal. Now the new owners jointly engaged a lawyer Torkjell Solbø to get transformed Food Safety Authority's decision that the kennelowner/animal abuser are still to get back four of the rehomed dogs.
Temporary pursuance On behalf of their clients have a lawyer Solbø taken out petition that the Food Safety Authority's decision must be set aside, and the trial court of Oslo has for a preliminary injunction granted the new owners pursuant temporarily until they meet Food Safety Authority in the Court 21. august. He hopes that verdict is maintained in the preliminary court proceedings, because it can quickly go one year's time before the district court may treat the matter in an appelate court case.
Hardly alive -- The case can go forward, both for main court and the Supreme Court, but it goes without saying that if the outcome of talks next Thursday will be negative for my clients, it has no intention to go ahead with it. For the dogs will probably not be alive to any main court case, "says attorney Torkjell Solbø.
Done investigated ÅSNES: The local animal protection and Food Safety seized 22 dogs last year, killed three and police reported dog owner because of the way the dog was kept.
Police report against a dog breeder in Åsnes is finished investigated by Åsnes lensmannskontor and will now submit a police attorney to further follow-up.
Animal healt control has required that the dog owner will lose the right to continue with the dogs. It remains to see what this cause and if it is removed from the indictment and raised criminal case in the much-talked about issue.
It has also been a recent audit of the person the dog-and animal owner. As long as there are no enforceable adjudication, the person in her full right to continue with the dog and other animals.
Head of Food Safety office in Glåmdal, Harald Øverby, confirmed to the newspaper that also for these audits are provided remarks and issued imposing fines, which in general is appealed.
Notes now has primarily been on their other livestock with livestock and horse, and the strict rules for labeling that currently apply - also for horses.
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