Showing 5 posts tagged with "almost heaven"
Derbe “Skip” Eckhart, former operator of Pennsylvania’s Almost Heaven Kennel, faces up to three years in prison after pleading guilty in Lehigh County Court yesterday to animal cruelty and multiple dog law violations.
Eckhart also faces fines of up to $7,500 under a plea agreement reached with the Lehigh County District Attorney’s office.
The kennel in Upper [...]
The owner of the Almost Heaven Kennel in eastern Pennsylvania has been fined more than $150,000 and is facing over 230 charges of violating the state’s dog laws.
Breeder Derbe Eckhart has 15 days to appeal the $152,900 fine from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, according to the Associated Press.
The fines and charges stem from a raid on Almost Heaven [...]
Among the more than 200 dogs seized from Almost Heaven Kennels, a Pennsylvania breeding operation shut down by state officials last week, was a Portuguese water dog whose rescuers say she was leading a life far different from her counterpart in the White House.
The Humane Society of the United States says the youngPortuguese water dog [...]
Eighteen of the more than 200 dogs seized from an ill-kept breeding kennel in Emmaus, Pa. have found a temporary home at the Maryland SPCA.
The SPCA, which picked the dogs up in its new transport van, was among several agencies taking in the dogs seized from the Almost Heaven Kennel by the Humane Society of [...]
Animal welfare officials shut down a Pennsylvania breeding kennel yesterday, suspending the operator’s license and removing 216 dogs.
Under the authority of a new state law, agents of the state Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement and the Humane Society of the United States shut down the Almost Heaven Kennel in Emmaus, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
The dogs [...]
