[clearsight]

We were outside any township or city that had ordinances. We called every animal control and humane society we could muster in our county and state. Some came out and fined them but would not shut them down. Local justice of peace would send out 30 or 40 people twice a month to work off their community service at that place...Humph...our tax dollars at work to suicide our life dream of a debt free place out in the country. It became obvious after much frustration that these people were being aided by the county commissioner and other politico's in the county.Spent five years building a beautiful log home on that acreage.......still trying to get over it. Answer to prayer though... an unknown virus to the veterinarians in the area went through a few years ago and wiped out half of the 300 plus dogs and cats......and to bad our dog and cat and other neighbors animals also. The animals just stopped eating or drinking and just dried up and died. They became walking skeletons. Had to put down ours. Oh this is to much.........

[unbalanced but fair]

A friend of my sister had a similar experience. The county animal welfare people refused to do much. Luckily, the state stepped in and closed the place down. The state used health and environmental reasons, not animal welfare. The owners had been dumping feces, etc. at the back of the property and it had washed down and contaminated a creek.
And a log home too! You have my sympathy. That is the one house I hated to leave. But my ex was transferred so we had to sell. I loved telling people my cat was climbing the walls!