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| Jeri's 'little blue pittie' |
Jeri Gilmore Langman and her husband are rescuers in Bullhead City, Arizona. When they heard about the situation in Beaumont, Texas, they headed for town literally to bail Beaumont and her animals out. She was surprised at the operation at Ford Center. However chaotic, things were progressing. There were about 100 or so dogs at the center when Jeri arrived Thursday the 31st. She went to work boots on the ground rescuing from flooded homes and bringing animals to the Ford Center where two volunteers were checking in and and ID'ing incoming animals.
Friday night, a couple arrived and stated they were with
Houston SPCA. The woman began grabbing dogs and walking animals without checking in and out. When she became irate, the couple was asked to leave. PETA had also tried to intervene, according to Jeri, but they were expunged as well. The next day, Saturday, September 2 at 2:30 p.m., the
Houston SPCA took over.
Jeri was outside Vidor, Texas involved in a rescue when the Houston SPCA came in, but when she returned, she thought 'something here is off.' Many people who were at Ford Center when Houston SPCA came in have all said the same thing. There was a weird pall over the whole building when Houston SPCA took over. It was different from the system Katelyn Reid had established. There was a comradery among the volunteers who'd dropped everything from homes across the U.S. to help out the 'Golden Triangle' in Jefferson County, Texas. That sense of everyone working together was gone and had been replaced by fear. The animals could feel it, too.
When Jeri first arrived at Ford Center, she made it her business to video and photograph all of the intake animals. A vet tech by profession, she was amazed that not one of the animals exhibited any aggression. After the
Houston SPCA took over the center, a draped section labeled 'staff only' contained animals with 'aggressive' signs on their kennels.
Pit Bulls and Parolees and
Villalobos Rescue vet was working with these volunteers who were shut out from helping the animals they'd spent every night and day saving in life-threatening situations. Everyone was pushed out as the Houston SPCA took over. As Jeri puts it, "it quickly became 'their way.'"
One dog stands out to Jeri as she recalls the goings on at the Ford Center. She was a little blue pittie, mangy with Demodex. She and Jeri had become closely bonded. She'd been found in a pick up truck where she'd been abandoned for three days. When Jeri returned from Vidor, she sensed something 'askew' and then thought, 'wait a minute, where's my little blue pittie?' Jeri began searching the entire facility and the little pittie was nowhere to be found.
There were two sections being used for infirmary and Jeri was told by a volunteer to check the infirmary. The little blue pittie was not in the first building, but Jeri found a group of people gathered together. Jeri was told by the vet that the little blue pittie had left for Houston SPCA. This was terrifying to Jeri. Why in the world was this dog being shipped to Houston?
Jeri has documented this whole affair with
photos and videos. She asked 'Travis' and an associate, both from Houston SPCA, in this
VIDEO their plans for and locations of the missing dogs.
This is important. Jeri was told by
Houston SPCA representative 'Travis' that the little blue pittie had been sent to Houston. As is documented in the her video, 'Travis' states that 22 dogs so far had been transported to Houston. He added, "all medical cases went to Houston." Jeri immediately posted this information on her Facebook page specifically to alert the public. Something was not right and the public needed to know.
Jeremy Boss has shot several videos which have gone viral on
social media. Here is the video documenting the same
conversation with 'Travis' and the other Houston SPCA associate:
Two days later, Jeri discovered the little pittie had in fact been adopted by a finder. After
specifically being told the pittie had been transported to the Houston SPCA institution in Houston where pit bulls are never adopted, this information was unsettling. What about the 22 others? Where were they?
When Jeri specifically asked 'Travis' about the Houston SPCA facility, he told her, 'the Houston SPCA can hold thousands.'
Jeri feels that no attempts are really being made to find the owners of these dogs. Why are they all being shipped to Houston SPCA in Houston with '1000's of spaces' when their owners were in the Beaumont area, the Golden Triangle? One thing she knew for sure and had seen it in action. The
Houston SPCA had an agenda, an eerie agenda.
Please send any photos, videos and information you have about the goings on at the Ford Center in Beaumont.
The Houston SPCA signed an agreement to return all dogs to Jefferson County. Bett Sundermeyer and No Kill Houston have provided the following information reprinted here in Pit Bulls and Other Animals.
