I have a dear friend whose mother is a animal horder. She has to take care of her mother's health problems as well as bring food for the dogs, both an exhausting process. Finally, after 15 years of this set up, the mother called the city and turned herself in! It seems she couldn't even get out of her bedroom at times because of the roving packs of wild animals that occupied the house.

So the city came out, and she tried to explain to them that she wanted to keep some of the dogs, but she would like for them to take the others away. The officials told her no, that would never do, and explained she had two options.

First, she could allow them to “do what was necessary”, in which case she would not be charged with more than 400 criminal counts of animal cruelty, public nuisance and health hazard. In addition, she can thoroughly clean her house and they will then consider not condemning it.

The alternate choice she had was that she could choose to resist their terms, in which case they would take her ass down. In other words, the “tough love” approach.

She agreed to the take the first choice.

My friend then went to take her mother out to town on the day of the city's big clean up operation. But before she did, she had to show the officials the “secret rooms” in the old pre-civil war farmhouse where the mother was “holding back” extra dogs that she wanted to keep.

So anyway, tomorrow is the third day of the dog kill. There are 400-some wild dogs living on the property. The animal control officers, including extras they brought in from up to 150 miles away, are shooting them left and right and stacking the carcasses like piles of corn husks.

What a relief this is for all parties involved.