Todd Ryan Townsend, 30, of Ankeny, left, was arrested Monday on charges of animal neglect with serious injury or death and animal neglect with injury, and Amber Jane Robison, 26, of Ankeny, was arrested Friday on charges of animal neglect with serious injury or death and animal neglect with injury.
Evander, a German shepherd weighing just 31 pounds, was saved “in the nick of time” from death by starvation, according to a spokesperson from the Animal Rescue League of Iowa.
DES MOINES, Iowa A second Ankeny resident was arrested Monday in connection with the starvation death last month of a female black Labrador and the near death of a male German shepherd.