and is republished with permission. The small, borrowed cat carrier sat on a chest freezer in the Alaska Seaplanes office in Haines. Spot the kitten was the only passenger waiting when Cassidy Timm and Blake Ward arrived to pick her up. “She’s so excited. Hi, Spot!” Timm bent over the carrier where Spot rolled over. “Her siblings are going to be so excited to see her and her mom. Her mom has been so sad lately. It’s been awful. She just runs around crying all the time,” Timm said. It’s been over a week since Spot clawed out of the sunroof of their vehicle and got lost somewhere on the car deck of the ferry Matanuska.
Aliy Zirkle out of Iditarod after suffering concussion and other injuries in ‘significant impact’ Published March 9
Share on Facebook Aliy Zirkle’s final appearance in the Iditarod came to an early end Monday night. The veteran musher and fan favorite suffered a concussion and “orthopedic injuries to her upper torso” in a “significant impact” while coming into the Rohn checkpoint, race officials said Tuesday. Zirkle was injured in a fall, according to a release from the Alaska National Guard on Tuesday morning. Her injuries were sustained on the glare ice along the Tatina River 5 miles out from the checkpoint. Zirkle, 50, was out of the hospital and resting with family in Anchorage by Tuesday morning, waiting to travel back to her home in Two Rivers. Efforts to reach her Tuesday were unsuccessful.
BROOKSVILLE â A Brooksville kennel owner faces multiple charges of animal cruelty and neglect after law and animal enforcement officers from several agencies raided the kennel March 2 and found sick and dead puppies.
Jian Karlos Ortiz Mendez, 34, owner of Golden Kennel LLC, 9203 Weatherly Road, was charged with 11 counts of aggravated animal cruelty and one misdemeanor count of animal neglect. He was being held on $23,000 bond. The misdemeanor count stemmed from a lack of water to kenneled dogs.
Jian Karlos Ortiz Mendez
The Hernando County Sheriffâs Office said animal enforcement officer Mandy Rowe obtained a warrant as part of an ongoing investigation into sick puppies being housed at and sold from the kennel. Rowe learned that several puppies had been sold from the kennel and within days of being sold, some of the puppies died of canine parvovirus.