"Personally, I feel that starving and dehydrating her is cruel and inhuman." I agree. You can't treat your dog like this.
Maybe we can get local animal control authority involved.
From the Pinella's County animal control laws....
Sec. 14-32. Cruelty to animals.
(a) Whoever impounds or confines any animal in any place and fails to supply the animal during such confinement with a sufficient quantity of good and wholesome food and water shall be in violation of this article.
(b) Whoever keeps any animal in any enclosure without wholesome exercise and change of air shall be in violation of this article.
(c) Whoever abandons to die any animal that is maimed, sick, infirm, or diseased shall be in violation of this article.
(d) A person who unnecessarily overloads, overdrives, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance or shelter, or unnecessarily or cruelly beats, mutilates, or kills any animal, or causes the same to be done, or carries in or upon any vehicle, or otherwise, any animal in a cruel or inhumane manner, shall be in violation of this article.
http://www.pinellascounty.org/animalservices/law.htm#1432
I seem to remember the first child abuse case in the US was brought under a similar argument about cruelty to animals as there was no law protecting children at that time.
I seem to remember the first child abuse case in the US was brought under a similar argument about cruelty to animals as there was no law protecting children at that time.