Santa Rosa’s Press Pensacola Paracon coming Gazette Aug. 17 and 18 Tweet us @srpressgazette and like us on facebook.com SEE B3 Saturday, July 27, 2013 Find breaking news at www.srpressgazette.com 75 cents Animal cruelty couple could face prison By LYNNE HOUGH or distributing an animal with a day on a warrant issued after an complaints about Kirkham Kat- cause of positive feline leukemia 623-3616 contagious or infectious disease. undercover investigation revealed tery Rescue Inc. for years but had tests. More cats were put down
[email protected] Parker said though a plea sick animals were being adopted been unable to gain access inside, in the days to follow. About 66 cats agreement might be available out from Kirkham Kattery Res- according to a sheriff’s report. remain at the shelter under quar- A married couple charged ear- to the Kirkhams, his office will cue Inc., according to sheriff’s Once sheriff’s investigators antine now. lier this month with animal cruelty be seeking prison time for these reports. completed a controlled adoption The community recently an- might be facing prison time, Assis- charges. Though the structure was a of cats from the rescue, there was swered the call for assistance from tant State Attorney James Parker The Kirkhams were arrested house in a residential neighbor- enough evidence to obtain a war- Santa Rosa Animal Services when said. He said officials in his office on July 1, each charged with hood off of Avalon Boulevard, it was rant and examine the remaining they announced they needed cat are pursuing additional charges health-safety of animals cause registered as a non-profit shelter.