Fallen “rescue angels” & online enablers erode the whole concept of “rescue” There are no heroes or heroines in animal rescue. The success stories tend to be people who manage to foster, rehabilitate to whatever extent is necessary, and responsibly rehome one or two dogs or cats at a time, over and over through many […]
Fallen “rescue angels”: Dawn Pennington, Tiffany Woodington, Corinne DiLorenzo
Dawn Pennington just charged, Tiffany Woodington beat the rap but husband faces trial, Corinne DiLorenzo due for trial next COLUMBIA, South Carolina; BENTON COUNTY, Missouri; THAWVILLE, Illinois––Charged with mass animal neglect after 28 dogs and two cats were found dead in their cages at her home on May 22, 2022, fallen “rescue angel” Caroline Dawn […]
“Rescue” hoarding: the “Nutmeg State” becomes the “Nut Case” state
“CT Pregnant Dog & Cat Rescue” bust is latest of a 20-year series HEBRON, Connecticut––The arrest of CT Pregnant Dog & Cat Rescue founder Joann M. Connelly, 59, announced by the Connecticut State Police on March 26, 2022, has disquieting echoes of previous alleged “rescue” hoarding cases that legislation passed almost a decade earlier […]
Heidi Lueders, alleged rescuer who starved pit bulls, rejects plea bargain
Lueders to be tried on five felony counts in early 2020 BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut––Former Bully Breed Rescue president Heidi Lueders, 31, on October 11, 2019 rejected a plea bargain to lesser charges, and instead is to go to trial at an unspecified date in early 2020 on five felony counts of cruelty to animals for allegedly […]
Ex-Bully Breed Rescue pres Lueders allegedly threatens to shoot family
Arraigned on new charges 24 hours after winning postponement of arraignment for deaths of five pit bulls NEW CANAAN, Connecticut––Heidi Lueders, former president of the pit bull advocacy and fostering organization Bully Breed Rescue, on the evening of January 29, 2019 was arrested “on charges of [third degree] assault, threatening and disorderly conduct following a domestic […]
Alleged pit bull starver Lueders & “rescue” horse thief Blackwood both busted
Bully Breed Rescue president to be arraigned on February 13, 2019 BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut; TUSKEGEE, Alabama––Bully Breed Rescue president and alleged pit bull starver Heidi E. Lueders, 31, can expect to face a howling mob of former donors, volunteers, sympathizers, and miscellaneous other pit bull advocates when she appears for arraignment on February 13, 2019 […]
Alleged pit bull starver Lueders charged, but not her enablers
Arrest warrant affidavit issued more than two weeks after remains of caged pit bulls were found at Bully Breed Rescue president’s home FAIRFIELD, Connecticut––An arrest warrant affidavit has been at last been issued for Bully Breed Rescue president Heidi E. Lueders, 31, of Fairfield, Connecticut, police lieutenant Robert Kalamaras told media on November 29, […]
Bully Breed Rescue president allegedly starved five dogs to death
Suspect not officially named pending charges, but rescue networks finger “Heidi Pibble.” FAIRFIELD, Connecticut––No arrests had been made and no charges brought, as of November 18, 2018, four days after Fairfield, Connecticut police found the skeletonized remains of five caged dogs in a home rented by one of the most prominent pit bull advocates […]