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Case ID: 5805
Classification: Neglect / Abandonment
Animal: dog (non pit-bull)
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Wednesday, Dec 31, 2003

County: Saint Johns

Charges: Misdemeanor
Disposition: Dismissed (Conditional)

Persons of Interest:
» Tammie Gannon
» William Gannon

Case Updates: 1 update(s) available

Two dog breeders accused of neglecting 18 dogs on property off County Road 208 will have charges dropped against them, because they have agreed to pay $2,000 in vet bills and allow the St. Augustine Humane Society to keep the dogs.

William and Tammie Gannon, both 37, were each charged with confinement of animals without sufficient food, water or exercise in January 2004 after St. Augustine veterinarian Dr. Laura Williams determined the dogs to be in poor medical condition.

Authorities confiscated the dogs at 6875 C.R. 208 behind a vacant house. The dogs were found wet, matted and covered in urine and feces, living two or three to a cage.

Tina Walker, director of the Humane Society, said ideally she would have liked to see the Gannons go to trial. Assistant State Attorney Bryan Shorstein, who offered the deal, said the Gannons likely would have received probation at trial.

Tammie Gannon declined to comment on the case when contacted by phone, but her St. Augustine attorney, Sung Lee, said the Gannons got stuck with the dogs and did not have a chance to obtain adequate treatment for them.

''I'm glad to see that the charges are being dismissed,'' Lee said. ''It's a deal that my clients aren't necessarily happy about, but they can live with it.''

The dogs were found on property owned by Nancy Koeble, who owned the now-defunct dog-grooming salon Top Dog. When Koeble moved to Tampa to start a breeding business, the Gannons agreed to look after the dogs temporarily, the Gannons told a judge at a March hearing.

But when Koeble's plans fell through, Koeble transferred ownership of the dogs to the Gannons sometime around the end of last year or January of this year, the Gannons said.

At the time they became owners of the dogs, the dogs had eye problems, heart worms and other parasites. So, when the dogs were seized, the Gannons had not had enough time to obtain all the proper medical treatment for the dogs, they said.

As part of the deal, the Gannons must discontinue dog breeding in Florida, but the Gannons said in March they intend to start a dog breeding business in Georgia.

Walker said the 18 dogs -- five Yorkshire Terriers, four poodles, four Lhasa Apso's, two Brussels Griffons, two Pomeranians and one Pug -- will be spayed and neutered and adopted out to good homes.


Case Updates

The Gannons are currently breeding English Toy Spaniels in Folkston, GA under the name Dixie Acres.
Update posted on Oct 25, 2005 - 10:21AM 

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