Police have charged a Fort McMurray woman with animal cruelty offences after officials rescued 97 dogs from a home in the community in August.
Wood Buffalo RCMP arrested a 51-year-old woman on Oct. 27 and charged her with causing damage or injury to an animal and causing or permitting unnecessary pain, suffering, or injury to an animal, according to an Oct. 29 news release.
The woman was released on an undertaking and is scheduled to appear in Fort McMurray’s Court of Justice on Nov. 19.
The charges follow an Aug. 25 search of a property in the Gregoire neighbourhood by the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo’s bylaw services, which obtained a warrant under Alberta’s Animal Protection Act. The operation led to the rescue of 97 small-breed dogs, which the Fort McMurray Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) took into its care….