A 3-year-old German Shepherd was found so close to death it could barely move. The dog is slowly recovering, and it's owner has been charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty. The german shepherd, now renamed "Hercules" is in the hospital being hand-fed every hour, because the people taking care of him are afraid too much food might actually kill him.
A healthy adult German Shepherd should weigh 90 pounds. Hercules weighed about 30 when he was brought into the emergency clinic where he is now recovering. Gene fields found hercules in a pen behind a house outside Charleston. 22-year-old Jonathan Brammer is now charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty. He claims the dog isn't his.� Humane officer Gene Fields was thought the abandoned dog was dead until he saw it wiggle its paw.
Neighbors say they could hear the dog barking for at least a month, but the barking stopped about a week before fields found him.
A worker at the clinic says despite all he's been through, Hercules will probably make it.
If convicted, Brammer faces up to six months in jail and a thousand dollar fine.
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Charleston, WV 25301 Case UpdatesA German shepherd that was starved and abandoned in its youth has been euthanized after breaking its back while playing, its new owner said.
"The first part of his life was not very good. Usually the first part of the life is what sets the standard for the remainder of the life,'' Billie Hawver of St. Albans said Tuesday. "His bones were weak.''
The dog weighed 30 pounds, a fraction of a normal 3-year-old German Shepherd's 80 to 100 pounds, when it was found in a pen in a home that Jonathan Brammer had been recently evicted from, Kanawha County Humane Officer Gene Fields said. The dog was found when a real-estate agent was showing the house to buyers in November 2004.
Brammer later pleaded no contest to misdemeanor animal cruelty.
Brammer named the dog General. Animal shelter employees renamed him Hercules, hoping he would be as strong as his namesake and recover.
He did, but while playing with Hawver's husband in their back yard on Monday he jumped up, landed wrong and his legs gave out. X-rays indicated his back was broken in a way that could not be repaired, she said. | Source: Charleston Daily News - May 31, 2006
Update posted on Jun 7, 2006 - 7:12PM |
Jonathan Brammer has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor animal cruelty for starving his dog. Brammer�s 3-year-old German shepherd was found in a pen in a home from which Brammer had been recently evicted, Kanawha County Humane Officer Gene Fields said. The dog was found when a real-estate agent was showing the house to buyers in November.
The dog weighed 30 pounds. A German shepherd his age should weigh 80 to 100 pounds, the Kanawha Humane Association said.
Brammer, 22, could be fined up to $1,000 and face up to six months in jail when he is sentenced. He also will have to pay the Kanawha County Humane Society $1,500 for caring for the dog. | Source: Saturday Gazette - June 24, 2005
Update posted on Jun 24, 2005 - 10:05PM |
The German shepherd that was found close to death a few months ago is doing so well that his new owners hope he will enter a show ring next month. Billie Hawver, a veterinary technician who along with her husband, Glen, is caring for Hercules, said the dog fits right in with their love of training and showing dogs.
"He's doing well, fast approaching the 70-pound mark," said Hawver, who helped care for the dog when he was brought to the Animal Emergency Clinic. He was near death and weighed only about 30 pounds at the time.
The dog could be returned to Brammer if he is found not guilty, but Fields said he doesn't expect that to happen.
Hawver intends to adopt the dog permanently after the court proceedings.
"Then we'll file for the paperwork and licensing that are required for AKC shows," she said. "Then he can compete in all AKC events -- agility, herding, carting, everything but comformation.
"The first thing we'll do is to neuter him," she said. "We don't know if it will be a simple procedure. Because of his malnutrition, he didn't develop fully, and it might be more complicated."
A fund at the Kanawha-Charleston Animal Shelter received nearly $2,000 and is being used to pay for the dog's veterinary bills. | Source: Charleston Daily Mail - Feb 17, 2005
Update posted on Feb 20, 2005 - 11:27AM |
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