03-10-2016, 08:38 PM
(03-10-2016, 03:07 PM)Catherine Wrote: What would have happened if the sitter was not found?That was the first question that came into my head. I'm not sure that police in America have the right to break down a door and enter a house if there is no evidence (at that time) of a crime having been committed and the animals are not in imminent risk of death. It was, in a way, a stroke of good luck that the man had been arrested, so that the policeman was able to locate him.
Do we know whether this man told the police that there were dogs locked up in his house, after he had been arrested? Or did he just forget about the dogs after his arrest? At least he finally gave permission for the police to enter his property - or was it under threat of a further prosecution for animal neglect if he didn't give permission to enter? Perhaps we will never know.
