AR-News: (OK - US) Dogs starved to death, had cut mouth from attempt to get into house

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Woman arraigned in animal cruelty 
By PATTI WEAVER World Correspondent 
6/8/2004 


CHANDLER -- A former Lincoln County woman was arraigned Monday on an animal 
cruelty charge for her alleged failure to provide food and water to her dogs in 
Davenport while she and her husband were away in January. 

Davenport Police Chief Bill Sides said in an affidavit that when he went to 
the couple's home Jan. 27, he found one pit bull dead and tangled up on the 
couple's porch, where it had been tied with a red cable and choke chain. 

Another dog had disappeared, the affidavit says. 

An autopsy performed by Chandler veterinarian Gary W. Stone showed the 
probable cause of the pit bull's death as hypothermia, with poor body fat reserves 
and dehydration contributing, the affidavit says. 

Kamber Dawn Miller, 19, who listed a Cushing address when she posted $5,000 
bond in March, could receive as much as a five-year prison term and $5,000 fine 
if convicted. 

Her husband and co-defendant,  

Jeremy Dexter Miller, 23, who now lives in Tulsa, pleaded no contest to the 
animal cruelty charge last month and received a five-year deferred sentence, 
court records show. 

He also was ordered to perform 480 hours of community service in the care of 
animals and to contribute $100 to the victims compensation fund, court records 
show. 

Sides said in his affidavit that when he went to the house Jan. 27, it 
appeared that the dead dog had cut his mouth from tearing the siding loose on part 
of the front door in an attempt to get into the house. 

A self-feeder box on the porch had dust in it, the affidavit said. 

Two water bowls had only half an inch of water from melting snow, and one of 
them had excrement in it, the affidavit said. 


 
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