Inspection for Rabies Quarantine Facilities and Impoundment/Shelter Facilities Z} bis Fal Loesionot Exobinhmen GO “TLR waiting Aces cy ARCH Sev yi ee et ron 5% —SPo(o -1 33 (_ cy Foie to Instn Put Ves No, NA (Not Applicable inte isthe fei strvetaraily sound and maintained in good Iepair in order to protect the animals fom injury, contain them, [and prevent ran cof diseases? Water and Blectric Power one tecords (cont) Hd MOC what We re Teo rs decent adalat land dapositon does, and method of disposition SENG, |Heatin (2, Does the facility have reliable wad adequate electri -omply with other requirements? 14, Are animals protected from cold and inclement weather land direct effects of wind, rain, and snow? snd fogs wate, being desd rina a debe? Fare daposal facies operated ina rane at itis b festations, odors, and disease hazards? ell [fc stherea suite method for rapisly and safely remo ater and other liquid wastes? | clas: 9. 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Setanta ZL 19. Are food puns Kept clean and Sanitary, and if disposable IN 7. 1s there documentation of twice-daily observations of Y | food pans ure used, are they discarded ufter each feeding? jwarantined animals? ] [Rabies Quarantine Facilities (Completed by DSHS Oniy)- {c. Watering - (Sexton 169.2640] Section 169-26a)) iB, Daasiosstaveconynet asia warandist | Dot ay fave write Sunde Oa v fee at east vie daly Fora less an hour? Procedure (SOP)? 1. Are the water bowl lean and canary? Ki fio. the SOP specific forthe Fig? vy Do dome ena arn ss enerng YAY. te SP ed or otervn rey ae al Hrinking bottle and to food? KAO MWZ_ Ne St yemployecs”™ F 1. Is the SOP designed to ensure effective und safe vy [p. Sanitation -(Seetion 169.26) waraie procedures? B3. Are exceia removed from primary enclosures oten enough | , | {12 Do enclosures aye solid walls to prevent physical gona ko prevent eontamination of the snimals (atleast once a day)? Ny cece WVlastly ei rete ba. Are primary enclosures minsined ina sanitary condition? | K-13, Do enelosurs have tps wo pi@oeneaslye? "OE PN 5. Are the building and premises kep.clean? NI fa Dostane rns, so eons ie "Ris esanin” sigs posted? Y |For Fuciles Subject to Chapter 829 (Located fw Non Pest Control = (Section 169.26(@)} lecmpt Counts) ~ (Seetions 829.002 and $29,007) Ts there a regular program in place forcanval fines, LS. 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Department of State Health Service pecs, Came We of complet é | ougpecnde: pesacet7n at Hus pine.ray: Kade Cniral Shelley — sateen 04-043 ‘Texas Department of State Health Services Inspection for Rabies Quarantine Facilities and Impoundment/Shelter Facilities ‘Z-3 Supplemental for Additional Comments Inspector comments continued: J usd Him Gow ae & toneploct. eo spore what J tau. thes Uo ronan et oa C 5 A a . quasarths Codie me anoiale ft voncann. dhat Hae meg teed >; ant Yat wae ft “4 we Sieh. the pak has happpeece. oe yy paceedl Hr @ ingpeedor (ag. but ibed mBti2bly Pm Ae. nprurdaut aponelo Ypae 09-26 a4 wel tag Jondaeg dead centmale (2 age) oo . wien - gall MID ®P Apy bese pee aid Sefnaw er Yat ena SAE be Jhb LE. Aipuen bet io As fitea. ZOr. Melinda Hergert ‘On January 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM, | received a message from the Jacksonville Code Enforcement Officer that there was no one at the Klein Animal Shelter locking after the animals. Shortly after that | received another call with a follow up email from the Cherokee County Department of Health reporting that a similar concern had been called in to the sanitarian there. As Klein holds an inspection certificate for animal quarantine, | decided | had better go to look and make sure that there were not any animals in uarantine there at the time which may not be under observation as required by law. We, Angela Hopkins and |, arrived at the shelter at about 12:30 to find that the receptionist, a volunteer and the director Angela Wallace were at the shelter. Angela Wallace was the only employee of the shelter there to clean and look after the animals. Upon entering the facility the odor of animal excreta was strong, This is not unusual for this facility, The foyer area appeared to be undergoing some repair or remodeling, which was confirmed by Stacey, the receptionist. The front storage room and the employee break room were cluttered with furniture and other items. There was a bird in a cage in the employee break room. (Accompanying photos Dr. H file) | saw that the cats in the front adoption area had already been tended to and there were a few cats in the common cat display room. | proceeded into the indoor dog run room and saw that although the dogs had feces in their runs in many cases, they appeared to have been cleaned for the morning. | walked down the left side of the building to check the far side runs and note the drains between the runs, At the end of the runs was a door to the right which led into another room where cats are kept in Shoreline style cages. These cages were all full with cats that had not been attended. Litter boxes were full of stool and urine. (Accompanying photos Dr. H file), ‘After exiting this room into the hallway I saw the volunteer was washing dishes in filthy water. Ths is. not an unusual finding and Angela Wallace has been told before about dirty dish and mop water. | opened another door with the broken door vent at the bottom, which appeared to be the room they Used for surgeries. It was untidy. The euthanasia room is across the hall and | did not open this room. It Is usually locked. | entered through the door marked as the no entry for public due to it being the rabies quarantine room for dogs. This room smelled badly of feces and it had not been cleaned yet. There are four dog runs to the left that are used for quarantine runs when needed. Only one dog had a sign on its cage indicating that it was in quarantine. The dog, large and brown in color, appeared to have been ‘tended to and had the appropriate paperwork on his cage door. The three other runs contained dogs that did not have quarantine signage on the doors. | walked through to the rear of the facility outside to find Angela Wallace and let her know | was there looking around. | told her that I had been called with a few complaints that there was no one attending to the animals atthe shelter. | told her the dog in quarantine appeared to be in order. She said that most of her employees were out sick and that she really was the only one there. She said that she had been off the day before, first day off in more than three months and that this was what she walked in to this morning. She was cleaning the runs that are permanently fixed to the rear porch of the building which | thought was alittle out of order considering. all of the animals in smaller cages inside that were still in filth, | then noted that there were dogs incarriers on the back porch. Most had no bedding and were in feces. | asked about those animals b/c she has been told before that animals cannot be housed in those crates as their primary enclosures. She said that they had all come in the day before and that yes they had spent the night in those crates on the back porch. | could see S crates at the most rear of the porch containing dogs. She indicated to one that hhad mange. She remarked that after she got through cleaning the cages she would then have to go through and get these intakes registered and see which in the facility would be sedated and euthanized by her that day, which she remarked she would have to handle herself since there were no other employees working that day. The workload for the day was overwhelming and | remarked as such. According to an online weather website, the low that morning was 31°F. | went back inside to finish looking at the animals inside the facility. There is a bank of Shoreline cages to the left of the quarantine room which | had previously seen was full of dogs, sometimes two in a cage, and there were feces in all of the cages. There was not enough room for some of these dogs in the primary enclosure. There were so many feces in most cages that it was running out the bottom of the cage or had even been smeared on cage doors b/c the animals could not avoid stepping in their own waste. | had come back in to begin documenting the filthy conditions when Angela Hopkins indicated to ime there was a puppy in a run to the right side of the room that was dead. The runs on that side of the room all contained dogs and the last two runs had females with puppies. The last run was filthy and there appeared to be dried pools of blood on the cage floor. The female had a litter of 6 puppies and ‘one was dead. The food and water bowls were overturned and there was another bow! with what looked like old or contaminated food. | asked the volunteer, Roberta, about the puppy and she said that she had told Angela Wallace about it and that she was aware of the dead puppy. There was no bedding in this run for this mother and her pups. | returned to record more of the cage bank noncompliance and saw a dog in bandages in a top cage that appeared to have bilateral radius and ulnar fractures by the way it was trying to stand and its legs were bent at an angle that would indicate the injury as a differential diagnosis. | did not get the dog out of the cage to examine it. It was wearing Vetwrap and white tape as bandages with no stabilizing support. Underneath and to the left of that dog was what appeared to be a schnauzer type dog laying in left lateral recumbancy in its own filth, There was a ple of feces behind the dog. It would not lift its head when | spoke to it to see ifit could move. | went out to ask Angela about what was going on with these injured dogs and to ask her about the dead puppy. She said that the dog with the apparent back injury had arrived a few days ago and that it was tagged for a rescue to pick it up. | asked her which entity had brought the dog in and she said Tyler Animal Control. | told her about the dead puppy in the run inside and she stopped cleaning the run she was cleaning and went inside to remove the pup. She said she did not know anything about it although the volunteer told me she had been informed. I called Detective ‘Tonya Harris at this point to tell her that someone from the police department needed to come to the shelter b/c there was animal cruelty taking place there in that not only were animals being housed in deplorable conditions but that there were injured animals on premises that were being denied veterinary care. While Angela Wallace was inside, Angela Hopkins came outside to tell me about the conditions she was finding and recording on the inside ofthe facility. That is when she noticed that the ‘small black dog in the last carrier on the back porch was not moving, | opened the cage door to find thatthe puppy was dead and iee cold, When Angela Wallace returned to resume cleaning the cage she had bbeen working on | asked her about the dead dog in the carrier. She said it had been brought in the day before by ACO Suzle Clements of Jacksonville PO who had indicated to the front staff that she thought it had parvo. It was placed on the back porch to separate it from the other dogs inside the facility. When | told her it was dead she was going to take it out and bag it and I told her not to, as| was expecting the Jacksonville PD and this dog was more evidence of animal cruelty, The temperature had been recorded as alow of 31°F the night before. Although this dog had a blanket and food and water in its cage it had been denied veterinary care, and no animals, much less an ill animal should have been housed on the back porch in the freeze. The police arrived. There were two officers. Officer Logan Smith had a camera and Sargent Jason Price asked me to show them the deficiencies. | showed them all of the rooms with the cats in filthy cages, including the cat quarantine room. | showed them the dead dog and let them know that their ACO had. brought in an animal and left it sick at the shelter. | showed them the two injured dogs inside and told ‘them that | knew that Tyler Animal Control had brought in the one lying in its feces. | told the officers that they needed to be taking photos of every one of these cages with the identifiers and area as a reference point with then a close up shot of the animal inside the cage to document its condition. 1 explained to Sgt Price the situation about the dead dogs found there, as well as sick cats and he advised that | further indicate the deficiencies. He said he wanted us to come back to the station and make statements where we could be interviewed. | had asked Angela Hopkins to go back in and take whatever photos she could to document the noncompliance b/c | did not know if the officer was getting all that we had seen as evidence. | took photos of the animals on the back porch and video of the other dogs ‘that were also found in portable cages on the back porch near the freezers. We discussed the frozen pup on the back porch and the carcass was taken to Dr. Ira Stevens who confirmed that the dog did have parvo, Went to Jacksonville PD station and we each gave statements. Stopped by Cherokee CO HD to let them know what had happened at the shelter since they had called in the complaint. ‘Around 5 PM from the office | left messages for both the DA Debra Dixon and Detective Harris that there were still two animals in the shelter if Angela Wallace had not put them to sleep that were active cruelty cases and they needed to get in there and get those dogs out. Reference website for weather on January 13/14, 2015: http://www. wunderground.com/history/airport/JSO/2015/1/13/MonthlyHistory.html?req_city=NA&r 2g state=WAGreq statename=NA Please reference all photos taken by myself in the folder Dr-H copies and in the folder taken by Angela / Hopkins dated January 14, 2015. | Val‘Angela Hopkins Tanuary 14, 2015 Klein Animal Shelter - Jacksonville, TX As I entered into the animal shelter the smell was overpowering. The further I walked into the shelter the worse the smell became. The breakroom was cluttered. The lunch table was covered with painting materials, ‘There was a birdcage with one bird housed in it. (Reference Pictures: 045, 046, 047, 048, 049, 050, 051, and 052) ‘The adoption cat room had gerbils/hamsters in the same room with the cats, This room had been cleaned, (Reference Picture: 004 and 053) (Pictures: 005, 006, 007, 008, 054 through 072 are of the cat adoption room) T looked at the cat room they use for adopters to visit with a potential pet and it was clean, (Reference Pictures: 073, 074, and 075) The store room was cluttered with a bed, two big white wall pieces, and a variety of other items, (Reference Pictures: 001, 002, 003, 076, 077, 078, 079, and 080) The dog adoption runs had feces in them but it was obvious those cages had been cleaned, The smell was strong of feces and urine, (Reference Pictures: 081, 082, 083, 084, 085, 086, 087, 088, 089, 090, 091, 092, 093, 094, 095, 096, 097, 098, 099, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, and 105) The cat isolation room had not been cleaned and the odor was rank. All of the litter pans were full of feces, newspaper was torn up, food spilled, and dirty water bowls. The quarantine room smelled as well, As T looked in each of the cages to the right when you walk in the door, none of them had been cleaned. The last cage on that side was especially dirty. There were dark areas that look like it was blood, There were 6 puppies in the cage and a mother dag. One of the puppies was deceased. ‘The mother dog laid down by the puppy and put her chin on its side, The otherpuppies where huddled close to the deceased one. The floor of the entire cage was covered in feces and urine. No blanket or other bedding in the cage. The food bow! had only « few pieces of food in it. The tall water bow! was tipped over and the other bowl next to the gate had a substance in it that I could not identify, It also looked as if there was mold on top of the substance, (Reference Pictures: 009, 010, 013, 014, 015, 016, and 017) The picture behind this cage (018) not only has feces in the trough but the deceased puppies legs and one of the other puppies legs were sticking out from under the cage. Next to that cage was a small portable carrier that had two dogs house in it. Both the water bowl and food bowl were empty. The towels in the carrier were filthy. (Reference Pictures: 011 and 012) On the other side of the room to the left of the quarantine door are four quarantine cages. I did not examine these cages because Dr, Hergert had already done so. I did however examine the cages past the quarantine cages. There were at least 2 cages that had dogs that were too big for the cages. One of those dogs had an injury to the back legs and could not move, The cage was filthy, the water bow! was dirty, the dog could not get up and so it had defecated numerous times where it lay. Looking at the cage card, it showed that the intake date was on 1/8/15 from the Tyler Animal Control and the date of this visit is 01/14/2015, (Reference Pictures: 042,043, and 044) There was another small dog that had dirty bandages on the front paws that turned up at the end, is section had been cleaned. None of the cages in The back cat isolation room had not been cleaned, Every cage had full litter pans, ” dirty food/water bowls and dirty cages. There were 4 small portable carriers housing cats that were also filthy. The director, Angela Wallace, of the shelter has been told several times that this is inappropriate housing and does not meet minimum standards, (Reference Pictures: 019, 020, 021, 022, 023, 024, 025, 026, 027, and 028) ‘The cages under the carport were being cleaned by the director. Tt looked like she had just started because only a couple of the cages were clean. There were several portable carriers against the back wall of the building housing dogs, someof which were too big for the carrier and it is inappropriate housing. (Reference Pictures: 037, and 038) ‘There was a portable carrier in the walkway between the banks of cages that had a dog in it, also too large for this crate, (Reference Picture: 035) Close to the back fence were 5 portable carriers all with dogs in them. The smaller ‘one had a dog in it and upon closer inspection was found to be deceased, The carrier next to that one had a dog in it with no blanket and the floor was covered in feces and urine, I could see the dog shivering. (Reference Picture: 039) All of these had been left out overnight. The temperature for that night was 32 degrees or colder. (Reference Pictures: 029, 030, 031, 032, 033, and 034) Theard Angela Wallace telling Dr. Hergert that the deceased animal was dropped off the day before by Jacksonville ACO Susan Clements and that Susan told her the dog possibly had parvo, (Reference Pictures: 029, 030, 031, 032, 033, ‘and 034) Angela Wallace also stated that those animals in the carriers were left there over right. Note: The only cage that I saw blankets in the cages was the dog that died, (Reference Picture 034) All the other cages had nothing to keep the animals warm. (hugh ‘ool Ss