DC: A woman who saved more than two dozen animals that otherwise might not have survived Hurricane Florence was arrested Friday because she did not have the appropriate permits to do so.
Tammie Hedges of Wayne County, North Carolina, had been taking care of nearly 27 cats and dogs that were abandoned by residents fleeing their homes because of the storm.
“The owners got to evacuate. They got to save themselves,” Hedges told USA Today. “But who’s going to save those animals? That’s what we did. We saved them.”
Hedges owns Crazy’s Claws N Paws, a donation-based animal rescue center, and was in the midst of turning an abandoned warehouse into a proper facility in which she could care for the animals.
“Our mission was to save as many animals from the flood that we could,” Hedges said.
Hedges was arrested and charged with practicing veterinary medicine without a license, and the animals have subsequently been confiscated from the temporary facility.
Hedges said she had been giving amoxicillin to a few of the sick animals as well as using a topical antibiotic ointment for others.
She’s also been charged for giving the animals Tramadol, a prescription painkiller sometimes used for dogs and cats, according to a Facebook post for Crazy’s Claws N Paws.
Animal control officers have “serious concern regarding the practice of veterinary medicine without a license and the presence of controlled substances,” according to a statement from Wayne County. read more
What a wench, throw her to the dogs, in fact; burn her at the stake for daring to circumvent the laws of our great bureaucracy.
How dare she violate the laws of those that know best!
Because Florida, God bless that lucky state, has no real crime to prosecute!
FYI:
Wayne County Animal Services1600 Clingman Street
Goldsboro, NC 27534
Phone: 919-731-1439 (same number for listed staff below)
Fax: 919-731-1381
Sauls, Joseph ------ Animal Services Manager
Benton, Wayne ------ Shelter Supervison
Heath, James ------- Animal Control Officer
Stribble, Channing - Animal Control Officer
Maples, Gary ------- Animal Control Officer
Uzzell, Austin ----- Animal Control Officer
@Rathaus – this is in North Carolina, not Florida
Oh, I stand corrected – North Carolina. Not sure where Florida came from.
Still, wherever it is, their lack of real work to do is enviable!
“North Carolina…Florida…Georgia…
What difference, at this point, does it make?”
😉
“Sorry Sir, I can’t help you unless these forms are filled out in triplicate and you observe the proscribed processing time.”
Die you mangy mutt!
Don’t you just love bureaucracy?
tramadol.
That one word put her into the wrong group despite her doing God’s work when others ran away from their responsibilities.
I hope some lawyer donates their time to defend this woman free of charge and if not a go fund me page should do wonders when appealing to all those animal lovers out there.
Hope she survives this obvious attempt from the all powerful local grubbermint to feed her into the pay-per-prisoner profit scams that most states run nowadays in cahoots with the private prison industry.
When the big one finally goes off all that will remain are rats cockroaches and bureaucrats.
Thanks, Uncle Al…. I need to refocus my anger away from the Kavanaugh mess, for a bit.
I’ll call ’em. …..Lady in Red
Gee, I’m starting to think I remember those names from a party when I was in high school. Thanks Uncle Al!
She probably had the tramadol already… Dogs take it better than I do.. the antibiotics… Readily available over the counter in some pet stores.
Cheaper than what’s prescribed for us and it’s the same stuff..
Conversely… Where are the animal cruelty charges against the owners of these pets?
Remember, All good deeds will NOT be unpunished.
From the town hall to the whitehouse — See how pervasive our bureaucracy is, everything is permitted, registered, controlled, taxed and if you run afoul, prosecuted.
Bureaucrat Civil Servants are not servants at all. They have become the Masters of the Masses and that’s the way the establishment wants it.
So what did they do to the confiscated animals–euthanize them?
“No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.”
(Chink Proverb)
The ancient Chinks understood bureaucracy.
izlamo delenda est …
Never Never NEVER underestimate the ability and will of government to be stupid and abusive!
Where’s the F*ing COMMON SENSE?!
So, where were all the animal control officers during the floods?
Indiana?
You just can’t win with these people. Had she left them to die, they would have probably charged her with animal cruelty. Her only out would be to claim she was Muslim…
I suggest she demand a jury trial. Make sure a lot of animal lovers on the jury. Counter sue the county for failure to protect the animals. Don’t most states have “good samaritan” laws to protect against this kind of over-reach? Will they prosecute someone who applied first aid to a human for practicing medicine with out a license?
My dog takes Tramadol and while an opiate based drug (not very powerful) the pain relieving action is less important then the calming effect and the fact it helps a dog sleep which in this case seems to be a very good use of the drug. I agree with Tony R, she needs a jury trial to get humanity into the process.