ALTAMONT, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The owners of Meadowdale Acres, a boarding facility in Altamont, have been charged with misdemeanors for animal cruelty, resulting in the death of a 2-year-old male pit bull named Diesel.
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“I’ve had him since he was born, like eight weeks old. He would always run around. He was happy, always wagging his tail,” explained Michelle Willi, Diesel’s owner.
Michelle explained that she needed a temporary home for her pets because she had to move but had not yet found a place that takes dogs. “From their reviews on Google, I thought that they were a decent place.”
Two weeks after dropping her pets off in early June, Michelle said she received a call telling her she needed to come get her dogs because the business was closing, “If I didn’t pick them up within 24 hours, that she would surrender them to an animal shelter.” Michelle went on to explain the boarding facility held onto both dogs. Then on September 2, she said she got a call saying that one of her dogs had died. “I just think that it’s a shame that the two owners are almost 80 years old and if they honestly couldn’t have taken care of them, then, you know, they should’ve did something differently.”
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Guilderland police confirmed they arrested 79-year-olds Stuart and Marilyn Reese and 44-year-old Jonathan Tenney after exhuming the dog’s body from the property. Mohawk Hudson Humane Society officials said a necropsy found Diesel to be in very poor health…