This One Will Make It

Update 2/26/2007: The efforts to care for these rescued sheep continues and we urge you to read more about them courtesy of chimerae over at LiveJournal. chimerae’s brother is a veterinarian assisting with the survivors’ ongoing rehabilitation.

We have some additional donation/contact information below for those organizations accepting emergency care funds, projected to be in excess of $120,000 even before the Oklahoma Supreme Court hears this case on March 13. Dr. Marcotte said it best:

The new law is supposed to empower law enforcement to act quickly to secure the resources to provide for the care of animals in need. It’s a tragedy that that the law has to be tested for the first time when the need and expense is so great.

Craig County is desperately underfunded for this effort. Please give what you can to help save these innocent lives. And when we say “save lives,” that does not include auctioning them off to cover the cost of their rescue and rehabilitation.

Craig County Livestock Rescue Fund
First National Bank of Vinita
102 W. Illinois Ave.
Vinita, OK 74301

Marcotte Veterinary Service
30588 S 4400 Rd.
Vinita, OK 74301

The Kelly Family (providing care for 1200 sheep, 300 cattle)
26644 South 4360 Rd.
Vinita, OK 74301

Dr. Justin Roscoe holds an infant lamb rescued from the Bluejacket, Oklahoma “farm” where thousands of sheep were left to die of starvation when their owner, David Bradley Bell, couldn’t afford to feed them anymore.

Bell, who was previously investigated for failing to care for the cattle on his property, has lost his bid to have the surviving sheep in the current case returned to him.

David Bradley Bell doesn’t look like he’s missed many meals to us. His sheep didn’t fare so well.

Their feed bunks and barns held only the decomposed bodies of their herdmates.

Rescuers and caretakers of the survivors need your help to provide food, shelter, and veterinary care for them. Please consider donating to:

Oklahoma Alliance for Animals

Craig County Oklahoma Sheriff's Office
301 W. Canadian Ave.
Vinita, OK 74301