Memphis Animal Control Officer Wanted For Animal Cruelty

This is horrible!!!! And it happens and is happening NATION WIDE!!!!! I live in Southern California and in an area that promotes animals and animal welfare and safety. But when my husband, my sister, her fiance and I happened to be the only people willing to catch a starved, abused, scared horse running down the middle of a busy road in the middle of the night we found out just how "caring" our police and animal control staff really are. We called 911 and waited over 2 hours for police to arrive on scene only for them to do nothing except brag how they like to shoot Pit Bulls with pepper balls (and I'm a proud Pit Bull owner. Another 2 hours later Animal Control showed up only to laugh and joke about the horses condition and didn't assit with anything we had to handle the horse and load it into their trailer. This was on a Friday night by the time they took control of the horse it was after 2am. On Tuesday (holiday weekend) my sister went to Animal Control to ask about this horses condition and a volunteer at the shelter told her that no one had been there since Saturday morning and the horse was DEAD with a TARP covering it. She said that the horse was never given food, water, or medical treatment. It suffered and died alone, abused, in pain, suffering, scared and all because our trusted Animal Control Officers are too lazy and too patetic to do their jobs. I would glady take their job and their pay and do the job the right way. And after filing complaints with the person who runs the shelter niether of us has had a return call or a follow up they just swept this under the rug. And that is unacceptable. I'm trying to get this story out to more and more people.

NO PAY!!!! Resind it until they find the dogs. She stole them and if they are still alive, probably living in hell! She can't explain? Then tell her things? Find the dogs or no pay and jail time. That's fair I think

there were reportedly 150 dogs i believe I read missing from MAS...41 as of this year....I do so hope they are not being sold to dog fighting rings as bait dogs...the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in character many times as birds of a feather flock together

WITH pay? Really? So now she doesn't have to work at a job that she obviously didn't like, but she still gets a pay check and then she'll be placed in some other program where she'll be required to work at a job she doesn't take seriously and will no doubt be funded with taxpayer money. Wow.

This shelter is a death factory and, as such, is impossible to treat animals "humanely". I have to wonder about anybody who could work in a place like that in the first place.

Suspended WITH pay?! That's amazing. Memphis government is so screwed up it's embarrassing to say I'm from this city. Let me guess, if she hauled that poor dog's carcass up to the steps of MAS with a sign that said, "I did this," she would still be paid until she got a hearing in six months and then she would roll over into the "Third Chance For Felons" program and get to care for babies at the NICU at St. Jude. Get a clue Wharton. Simply unbelievable.

Memphis Animal Services needs to clear out EVERYONE who is cruel to animals. Ms. Hogan isn't the only one and they all know it. In this economy, you can easily find people willing to do a good job for the money AND treat animals kindly. Why do we have people there who seem to be incapable of correct and humane animal handling? Why does Matthew Pepper continue to do NOTHING about the cruelty at the shelter while still collecting his $92,000 a year? Why does he continue to do NOTHING about the "disappearances" and ridiculously high kill rates? And why does Kapone's family have to fight for even the smallest scrap of information on their missing dog? A major housecleaning is long overdue at MAS.

Suspended WITH pay...a convicted felon, already facing forgery and fraud charges...now add animal cruelty, and Memphis taxpayers are still paying her! This is ludicrous.