‘I want people to be held responsible’: Tempers and questions flare after two dogs are abandoned at B&R Bunkhouse

CICERO, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — B&R Bunkhouse owner Maria Limberg was met with a surprise last week when she came down to the shelter and found two dogs in crates right outside their doors.

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“Our neighbor told him, you can’t just leave them here, and he just left them here,” Limberg said.

This isn’t the first time this has happened.

“We had a gentleman walk through our back door, stick their dog in a dog crate, and then go to work,” she said. “We had one tied to our door handle and that was at 6:30 in the morning.”

She then reached out to animal control with the CNY SPCA who says the dogs were not abandoned because they were found as strays.

“I said, ‘Fine, maybe I’ll pick them up, put them in my car, and drop them off at your doorstep,'” Limberg said. “When the female dog control officer said that would be abandonment, I think that is what upset me. Because it would be abandonment there, but not here.”

B&R Bunkhouse is teaming up with Helping Hounds to open more kennels and reduce these kinds of situations.

“What we need is the community to join us, sign up to be a foster home. It’s a very short window of time,” said Kathy Gilmour, the executive director for Helping Hounds. “We ask for three weeks. In those three weeks, tell us everything you can about this dog.”

“I want people to be held responsible for leaving dogs behind. What if they got out of the dog crates? The crates weren’t locked. I have pictures of them not being latched when I got here. Who’s to say the dogs couldn’t hit the cage just right and then they’d be on Taft Road, smushed by a car

In a phone call with NewsChannel 9, the CNY SPCA says the man who dropped off the dogs came to them first. They told him to see if the bunkhouse had room and did not expect him to leave the dogs there unattended.

People should contact their municipality regarding stray dogs in their community.

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