Starving three Great Danes and a Rottweiler
Stillwater, OK (US)

Incident Date: Sunday, Dec 16, 2001
County: Payne

Disposition: Convicted

Defendant/Suspect: Susan Louise Richardson

A Stillwater woman who pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges could receive up to 20 years in prison when she is sentenced next month.

Susan Louise Richardson, 36, pleaded guilty to four counts of animal cruelty Friday. She was accused of starving three Great Danes and a Rottweiler, which were rescued by police from a locked mobile home in a trailer park.

Prosecutor Tom Lee said that Richardson was supposed to take care of her boyfriend's dogs after he moved to Texas, but didn't.

"From the condition the dogs were in, they could have been starved for months," Stillwater Animal Control Supervisor Mary Dickey said. "As far as what they were living in, it's the worst condition I've seen" in 13 years as an animal control officer.

"There was nowhere in the trailer that was not feces. The floor was rotting. There were holes in the trailer. The dogs had sores on their feet, infections around their toes, from living in filthy conditions," Dickey said.

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