This is so sad

oh man! that's awful. so disturbing.

Man, that is so disturbing. My fiance walks by that place every day...twice...and she says it always freaks her out.

my understanding is that most of the dog breeding, especially these mixed breeds, are for dog fighting. wouldn't be surprised if the dogs were regularly kept hungry. blah.

this is alwful . i hope they catch these punks and have them fight each other and be inbreed and than shot or something.

jules wrote: I passed yesterday and saw three police vehicles (truck-like...must have been animal control) and a few police cars.
I have heard dogs barking inside the house before. The front door is always packed with boxes, garbage or towels or clothes. Once I saw someone climbing through a broken window in the front door above the garbage.

Welcome! :!: :!:

Looks like Bergen between Vandy and Carlton.

This is my neighbor. I can assure you that any dog breeding going on there is purely by accident and not for sport or financial gain. Judging from his appearance, actions, and the fact that he lives in filth - and I mean filth - I imagine there is some sort of mental illness going on there.

He does climb in and out of a broken window... because all of the other "normal" access routes to home or street (for example, the door) are blocked with trash. He also can often be seen sleeping on the stairs or walkway in front of his home.

Word on the block is that he was sent to the hospital and has been absent for 10 days, which would account for the beaten appearance of the dogs, and the fact that they were ravenous enough to eat one of their own.

His closest neighbors have been dealing with the overall filth and noise that comes with having many dogs for years. Hopefully the intervention of so many city agencies will get him the help that he clearly needs.

Oh man this is so sick and sad. I rode or walked by there every freaking day for almost 6 years and noticed nothing. On one hand you have Vivian from Housebroken on Vanderbilt walking, rescuing and taking care of neighborhood dogs, while one block away, you have this nightmare. Mental illness has to be the cause of this. So horrible. THis is similar to the apartment I almost moved into last summer, where there was the cat version living downstairs. I tried so hard to get the city involved, the woman there needed help desperately, but as long as SSI was paying her rent, nobody gave a shit. They finally did something there, and helped her, about 8 months later.

Poor animals. uh, this is so horrible I can barely think about it.

I went by the house today and took some photos. It's worse than I could have imagined- but don't worry about this happening on your block. The neighbors have been complaining about the stench at this building for 15 years.



Here's the link for more images:
http://tinyurl.com/lbu49

alafairnadia wrote: oh man! that's so scary. what a firetrap! I'm so glad that's getting cleared up.

Doesn't look like there's enough air for a fire! Holy crap - stuff's literally to the ceiling!

stacey wrote: Raul where they still using the pick axes to get in there?

I didn't see pick axes, but I would believe anything. The neighbors had been complaining for years, but in the end, when they didn't see they owner for two weeks or so and the smell was particularly bad, some agency finally went in because they thought the owner might have died.

I should mention the guy with the bottle (see http://tinyurl.com/lbu49) promised he was not going to drink it- he did want it as a souvenir.

The owner is supposedly in the hospital with a heart condition.

yikes. did it smell on the street?

grody

Oh, I see. I was walking home (helmetless; crazy, I know) and saw the news trucks. I asked the Fox guy what happened, and he waved his hand and said "Nothing". At first I thought he was just annoyed at having been bothered, but know I realize that it was disgust in his voice and he couldn't bear talking about it.

Then again, it was Fox News, so he probably didn't know what had happened. Other than the evil doing residents were democrats.