Local media spoke to one woman who said when she tried to drop off an injured bird at a North Jacksonville Bird Sanctuary, what she found inside was sad and disgusting.
She says she has taken birds to Beaks before. But admitted animal lover, Erin Smith knew something wasn't right when she showed up to Beaks on Big Talbot Island with this injured bird she found in the road.
On the locked fence is a sign that says look for the facility reopening in the fall of 2005, but Smith saw this sign too that tells anyone with a wounded bird to leave it in the kennel.
All the trailers looked abandoned. Smith squeezed through the fence hoping to find someone and was horrified. It was raw to the bone. It wasn't the birds but 20 to 30 sickly looking cats wandering the property that had her snapping pictures.
A cat shows a major gash behind the ear and another cat has what appears to mange covered in ants. But that's not all.
The birds in front of the cage, the two Emu didn't have any water.
When we went to Beaks looking for answers they never returned several of our phone calls and this is what their answering machine says, �We're temporarily closed for renovations. Sorry about the inconvenience."
That woman who you just heard from says the eagles which beaks gets state money to care after because they are endangered appear to be in a good condition and look to have access to food and water.. The pictures of the cats are getting passed along to animal care and control.
Along with state grants, Beaks also operates with the help of donations. Neighborhood MapFor more information about the Interactive Animal Cruelty Maps, see the map notes.
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