Animal abuse, how long can it go on??

[suzieq728]

Neglect of 114 animals by animal rescuer - (Ulster County, NY - US)
Crime Date: 11/07/2002
Case Status: Alleged

Accused Abuser(s):
Patricia Aline Abezis




Case Report

Patricia Aline Abezis (dba Patty's Angels) was arrested by the Ulster County Sheriff's Dept. along with her employees. 114 animals (dogs and cats) were seized and are in the custody of the Ulster Co. SPCA. These animals, many of whom are sick and emaciated, were without food and water and living in filthy conditions, multiple animals sharing crates and living locked in small kennels in standing water.

Patty's Angels took animals from many rescuers in the NYC and Long Island area. If you have given her an animal, Christine French, the Executive Director of the Ulster County SPCA would like to hear from you. You can reach her at (845) 331-5377 Ext. 11. There are no medical or identifying records for these dogs and cats and she is trying to 'fill in the blanks'. Patricia is originally from Atlantic Beach (LI) NY and is known to have taken animals into her rescue from several LI Animal Shelters. Please contact Christine if you can put a name to a fuzzy face and provide her with a medical history on any of these unfortunates.

There are many litters of puppies amongst those seized. It is thought that some of them may have come from Southern Shelters. The animals are being vetted, fed and watered under the supervision of the SPCA. The need is not to place them but to identify them.


References
Ulster County SPCA



This was her first arrest! :mad:

[suzieq728]

This is the second or third time around for this chick... When is someone going to stop her???

Animal Abuse Cases - Details En Español

116 counts of neglect - (Ulster, NY - US)
Crime Date: 02/09/2003
Case Status: Alleged

Accused Abuser(s):
Patricia Abezis

Michael Sickler

Tracy Ann Pennington




Case Report

On Nov. 7, 2002, SPCA enforcement officers and Ulster County sheriff's deputies arrested Patricia Abezis, 48, along with assistants Michael Sickler, 52, and Tracy Ann Pennington, 44, at the Whitfield Road shelter in Accord. An indictment listing 116 misdemeanor counts of failure to provide sustenance to an animal charged that 92 dogs, 24 cats and numerous hens and rabbits were found without food and water and that kennels were contaminated with feces and standing water.

Thirty animals were seized and still reside at the SPCA facility in the town of Ulster. About 100 animals remain with Abezis as she and her employees fight the charges in Rochester Town Court.

This is not Abezis' first run-in with animal welfare authorities. She was charged in April 2000 with five counts of failure to provide sustenance to a dog, though those charges were later dropped.

AT PATTY'S Angels, on a narrow mountain road beyond the Accord Speedway, a thick sheet of ice and snow covers the grounds. Inside the 17th-century stone farm house, dogs in training cages and others running loose create a cacophony of barks, whines and howls as a visitor enters. The rusty training cages, which leave just enough room for a dog to stand up and turn around, are open on the bottom and rest on a buckling wooden floor. Most have a single blanket inside.

The rooms in the house are dim and bare, except for a few pieces of battered furniture and the training crates. A walk through the house reveals about 20 dogs, loose and caged, in four rooms. Five more are outside in a run attached to the house.

Abezis said the dogs in the house are caged only at night and at feeding time. On this day, they have been locked up so they will not stampede a visitor, she said.

Pennington said all the dogs in the house get outdoor exercise twice a day. The exercise periods range from 20 minutes in bad weather to three hours when it is warm, said Pennington, who began working for room and board one day before the November raid.



Inside a long blue wooden kennel, pens about 4 feet square and holding dozens of dogs line each wall. Larger enclosures stand in the center of the two wings of the kennel. Here, too, some dogs are confined to training cages.

All of the pens lining the walls have small doors, which are opened by a pulley system, that lead to outdoor runs 5 feet wide and about 50 feet long. Most of the dogs have a pen to themselves. A few contain two dogs.

In each pen, a plastic sleeping pallet rests on the concrete floor. The outdoor runs, which appear cleaner than in the photos taken by the SPCA, are still layered with a coating of dog waste frozen into the ice that covers the runs. "We have to go at it with a pick and shovel to get it clean," Abezis said. "We are still working on that."

About six cats live in a barn loft with chicken wire running down the center to prevent escape. A cradle and baby carriage piled with blankets are the only visible source of heat, and the litter boxes contain more waste than litter.

All of the dogs shown to a visitor had food and water, and none appeared to be emaciated or outwardly ill. The only visible injury was to a pit bull in a training cage in the house: It had a large, pink sore on its nose. Sickler held up a soiled dog bed and explained the animal rubbed his nose raw on it.

Abezis admits the facility is "not the prettiest place," explaining the death of her husband, Steven, in 2000 after a long battle with cancer and her own health problems have made it difficult to carry out her original plan to completely renovate the house and kennel. Still, she insists the animals are well-cared for.

"Not for one minute were these animals not fed," Abezis said. Abezis, a Delta Air Lines flight attendant and Long Island native, blamed the November arrests on a former employee who, angry that she would not bail him out of jail on a drunk driving charge, told authorities the animals were not being fed. To back up her claim, Abezis referred to an affidavit filed by Middletown veterinarian Dr. Paul Johnson on Nov. 22 that reads: "After review of approximately 130 animals located at (the facility), I was able to ascertain that all animals received necessary food, water, shelter and care."

Christine French, director of the Ulster County SPCA said that Abezis, in her zeal to rescue abused and abandoned animals, has become overwhelmed.

"That facility was designed to hold a certain number of animals, and now it is overcrowded and understaffed," French said. She points to a small white terrier mix seized from the shelter as evidence the dogs may be confined to cages for longer periods than Abezis claims. The dog races frantically back and forth through a small doorway leading to an outdoor run for about five minutes straight.

"That is not a sane dog," French said.

Abezis said many of the shelter's problems are caused by harassment from the SPCA. The arrests, she claims, have made it difficult to find employees and volunteers. Meanwhile, publicity surrounding the criminal case a warning about Patty's Angels on the Internet have caused donations to the non-profit corporation to drop to almost zero.

But Abezis is confident she will beat the charges and continue her mission to find homes for adoptable animals and provide sanctuary for the rest. "This work never stops because animal abuse never stops," she said. "Some of these dogs will never find homes, but at least they won't be killed."


References

[suzieq728]

Please copy these stories and post them where ever you can on the internet..
This women will continue to abuse & neglect these animals as long as we let her...

I have known her now for 5 years, the story never changes..

I have a doctor's appt, but I will be back to post the history on this nut job....


Thank You

[lovebug]

OMG! This just makes me so mad! :mad: This lady who is to be running a rescue and doing this to these poor babies! This is just horrible!

[Tearianna]

I think there must be a particularly horrible punishment set aside for people who abuse/neglect animals. It burns me up :fmad:

[suzieq728]

Ok I am back, Now wait till you hear her history, this will make your blood boil...

Her name is Pat. I first met her at my cousin's house and immidiatly did not like her. My cousin told me to stop that I never like anybody new and that I should be a little more patient.
Ok, I thought about that and said to myself, my cousin, (her name is Linda) could be right.
At that time Sunday dinners were at Linda's house so that following Sunday Pat was invited to dinner. We all talked and I found out that Pat was trying to open up a Animal Rescue, but that her funding was real low. She had found a kennel upstate NY but with no money it was going to be very hard for her to care for the dogs/cats she had already rescued. Well, suckers that Linda & I are we fell for this hook line & sinker.
At the time Linda had just came into a lump sum of money so she was in good finacinal shape. I on the other hand was unemployed and broke. Pat joined the same bowling league as Linda within 3 weeks. They became very close over the next month. Linda came to me and said listen I am going to do something to help Pat out, and I dont want you to say anything to the family. She also asked me to help Pat out since I had so much free time and was a animal lover myself. I didnt even think twice I agreed.
My role was to go up to the kennel Upstate and help clean up the big house so that someone could live in it, & to also help Pat with the animals. My son at the time was like 12, and he also loved animals, so we quickly got into this. We got the house in excellent shape and Pat started bringing up dogs & cats. Now the kennel is designed to hold 70 dogs, and there are 2 barns on the property. One barn we intended to turn into a Kat Korner. I found out a few months later that Linda "LENT" Pat a big chunk of money so that Pat was able to purchase the property, and the deal was they were going into business together. AT the time this all sounded good. Linda gave Pat one of her credit cards and told her to use the account for anything the business would need.
We went shopping once and Pat bought clothes for herself and used Linda's cc. Now my role had changed too. Not am I only helping with the house, I am also the bookkeepper, as I am logging all these expenses in I am seeing that a lot of them are personal expenses that Pat is running up. At first I went to Pat, I asked her what was going on? She told me it all had to do with business and that I should mind my own business this was between Linda and her. Well ok, fine. We will see what Linda has to say about that. In the meantime, my son is spending a lot of time with Pat going back and forth with animals. Once they were at the kennel and I was back here on Long Island. My son called me hysterical crying, he said Pat had beat one of the dogs with a belt and the dog was hurt but that Pat had told him to shut the F*** up and never to mention this. Well I was horrified. I called Linda right away and told her what Neil said, and Linda said Neil was lieing Pat would never do that.
The following week I went to the kennel to stay for a few weeks and I was appaled at what I saw up there. There were strangers living in the big house, and there were like 105 dogs in the runs, and a big huge pig in the barn with the cats! These people kept feeding the pig bannanas tomatos, just anything, and the pig would eat it. When I started to open my mouth about the goings on up there Pat told me I was no longer needed.
Oh, I did forget to mention that one of my own personal dogs was also up there. She was a german shepard that I had found on the streets, and I didnt want her to be cooped up in a apartment. So I had her spayed and brought her upstate with me with the understanding that I was moving up there anyway. One week I went up there and I didnt see my dog, I asked Pat where is Princess, she said, Oh I forgot to tell you, she died giving birth to a litter :eek: WTF, she's spayed! Well that is when the shit hit the fan. I turned Pat in to the SPCA A.S.A.P, and she was fined. I was banned from the property, and it was about that time Linda asked Pat for some of her money back and Pat told her to Kiss her :moon: .
I have since found out that Linda lent Pat $167,000.00 :eek: I can not believe she did that! Did she get her money back, NOPE! And those poor animals, whats going to become of them.
Already over 100 cats have been just set free from the barn by one of her drunken employees, (the one she would not bail out jail, which I may add she did bail him out).
For over 5 years now I have kept a tab on this women. I have gone up to the kennel taken pictures, sent them to the SPCA, and they continually fine her. Finally I sent them a video tape of the conditions up there and wrote a few letters to some higher ups and now there doing something about her.

Somebody has to stop her, and I wont rest until she is held accountable for those animals that have mysterly disappeared..
Please help me, help those animals..

Pass these on, tell everyone.. somehow, someway I will stop her!

Thank you
Susan

[misty]

Those poor innocent furbabies. Why, Why does the authorities let people like this woman get away with this abuse with just a fine? She needs to do some real long jail time.

Why was she keeping these animals?

[suzieq728]

She is what I called a "animal collector", I later found out that there is a term for her kind, it's called "animal Horder". Means the same to me.
She saves these animals from terriable situations, says she will work with them, and then find them good homes, but the truth is, once she gets this animal in her care, they never leave her!
There was a whole story about people like her once, but way to long to post here, if I find the link I'll post it.

She is one sick puppy, and calling herself a animal lover is just the way to get away with this type of stuff....