Help animals like Munchie

In December 2012, CHS Peace Officers were called to a potential abandonment situation. Officers attended the concern of excessive barking paired with a lack of activity at the home and received no response to a door knock. Officers were able to verify the presence of 2 German Shepherd dogs and left a notice on the door requiring returned contact to avoid enforcement action. There was no returned contact the following morning, so a search warrant was sought and obtained. CHS Peace Officers returned to the house with the warrant and engaged a locksmith to gain entry. The door remained secure despite the lock having been disengaged. Left with only forced entry as an option, the door was forcefully breached, revealing large metal brackets holding the door permanently shut. A search of the main level only yielded one female dog in the boot room, indicating that someone had accessed the property since the door knock the day previous. Officers descended to the basement to find the second dog or a suspected litter of puppies based on the state of the female. What they found instead was a massive marijuana grow-operation. The home was turned over to CPS and the dog was seized as abandoned.

While recovering from malnourishment at CHS, I bonded with her and by the time she was cleared for adoption, made the decision to make her a permanent member of his family. She was affectionately named after the circumstances of her seizure and carried the moniker of Munchie for the rest of her days. Munchie became an official member of the Humane Education staff at CHS shortly thereafter, accompanying her dad to kids' camps every year.