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spot.fund/1bfv9tqsc. There is a fundraiser set up now if you can help 🙏🏻
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🐶 Meet my new foster, RAIN! 😍
Yep, my travel schedule finally settled down and I am able to do what drew me into rescue, fostering over 200 dogs...and counting.
I couldn't help myself when I was on the @pawssavingpaws live a couple of weeks ago where he and his team go to the San Antonio Animal Shelter (a high kill shelter) and go live for several hours every Sunday showing thousands of people the dogs waiting to be adopted or rescued. It's a sight to behold. (Please follow them!!)
I saw a dog I wanted to foster, and contacted my buddy @Jaradheld. I ended up also agreeing to foster this handsome boy, and another little girl named Cassie, that is coming today!
So I will end up with 3 fosters. But that's normal for me, as I am true to my "extra" mentality. 🤷♀️
Rain has been an absolute JOY to foster. My dogs would have a word, but pishaw, they'll be fine. 🤣
He's 4-5 years old, a GS-mix, HW-, a TOTAL love bug, but smart, not a mean bone in his body, and ready for adoption.
He can be transported almost anywhere in the US.
Check his video and flyer out and please share so we can find this bestest boy his FURever home! ⛓️💥🐶❤️
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📣 SNUGGLES UPDATE!! -- & A MASTERCLASS IN LITIGATION
TODAY IS DAY 398.
FIRST a clarification of the TWO cases @ChristinaMaccio is fighting for Snuggles, and @JenniferEvn22 and WHO is involved.
➡️ ARIZONA STATE APPEAL:
Jennifer Evancho v. Tucson City Court
Contrary to other posts circulating out there, this case is with the Tucson City Attorney’s Office as the party in interest, (NOT PIMA COUNTY!!) and it challenges the dangerous-dog/destruction proceedings themselves.
UPDATE:
Snuggles’ state appeal is exactly where the action should be right now.
Christina filed the opening brief, and COT is due to respond by Nov 30.
Christina’s appellate brief skillfully attacks the underlying Tucson proceeding from multiple independent directions.
Once COT files their reply brief, typically, Christina/Jennifer will be able to file a response to their reply brief.
Updates will be coming as they occur.
➡️ FEDERAL CIVIL-RIGHTS CASE
Jennifer v. the City of Tucson, Pima County and individual officials/officers.
This case challenges separate constitutional conduct including Snuggles’ seizure, continued detention, due process, and related government actions.
UPDATE:
The judge made a ruling! And it is not what most people who read it would think.
The Federal Case is Alive and Protected.
📣 Five of Jennifer’s six federal claims have been stayed and are still alive.
THIS IS A MASSIVE WIN.
Despite both City of Tuscon and Pima County's best efforts to have Jennifer's case dismissed (thrown out) the judge did NOT dismiss the 5 main constitutional claims.
Instead, she "stayed" (paused) them. This means the claims remain pending and are stayed until the state proceedings conclude, and are actively hanging over the City and County's heads while they finish the state appeal.
Now, she won't have to start these efforts later and she avoided MONTHS of the ping-pong that just occurred!
Other rulings:
1. It was expected that the court would decline immediate federal intervention while the state proceedings continued and that the existing stay protected Snuggles. Not a surprise.
2. The judge dismissed the particular constitutional challenge to bond and boarding fees—not Jennifer’s damages claims generally. The damages components of the five principal counts remain preserved and the kennel and boarding fees can still be sought as damages if the unlawful-seizure claim succeeds. This was also not a surprise.
DEFEATING ROOKER-FELDMAN...TWICE!—AN EXTRAORDINARY FEDERAL BENCHMARK
One of COT & Pima's major arguments was Rooker-Feldman — essentially arguing that Jennifer was trying to use federal court to relitigate or overturn another court's decision/order or judgment.
Just two weeks earlier, in Major’s case in Texas, Christina obtained a federal ruling recognizing that an independent federal claim can survive even when a state destruction order already exists.
Rooker-Feldman has repeatedly been used to shut down federal challenges arising from state-court judgments, so having Christina defeat that jurisdictional barrier in BOTH Major’s Texas case and Snuggles’ Arizona case—within two weeks, in two different federal courts—is exceptionally significant.
And it just may have helped save Snuggles.
DAY 398. #SAVESNUGGLES
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🚨 ATLAS UPDATE!! -- EMERGENCY MOTION FILED! 🚨
⛓️ TODAY IS DAY 566 OF CONFINEMENT FOR ATLAS ⛓️
This Thursday, November 12 at 2:00 PM, Tammi and her lawyer will go before Judge Jennifer Rymell in Tarrant County Court on their Emergency Motion for Supersedeas Bond or Alternative Placement...
...the City of Bedford and their attorneys at TOASE are in full-blown panic mode trying to stop this hearing from happening.
Why are they terrified of going in front of the Judge on Thursday?
Because all of the receipts are now officially filed in the public court record:
1️⃣ THE SECRET POLICE STATION JAIL MOVE (CAUGHT ON TAPE):
We filed the verbatim transcript (Exhibit D) of Bedford Animal Control Supervisor Jose Morales admitting on June 4, 2026 that he was moving Atlas out of the shelter and into the jail at the Bedford Police Station—where he admitted NO Animal Services staff are stationed—explicitly telling Tammi on recording:
"Because there's too much going on. Too many people are being contacted from rescues. Um... it's too much publicity. So I'm gonna move him."
Wait until the Judge compares that to what the City's own lawyers told the Court in writing last year—when they argued that moving Atlas to an undisclosed location without shelter oversight would threaten public safety and transparency!
2️⃣ "MENTAL BREAK" vs. "NO RECORDS EXIST":
Six weeks ago, the City’s attorney told Tammi’s appellate lawyer that after 500+ days in isolation, Atlas had suffered a "mental break" at the police station and required multiple officers just to feed him. This is something they are required to document, according to their own records.
Yet when I hit the City with Texas Public Information Act requests for Atlas's care logs, medical records, and police-station transfer records during that exact time period, the City's attorneys responded in writing on October 2 and October 7 claiming
"NO RESPONSIVE RECORDS EXIST." 🤔
So which is it? Did Atlas have a mental break requiring multiple officers, or have they kept a dog locked in a police station for months without keeping a single daily care, feeding, or medical record?!
Both cannot be true.
3️⃣ FORMAL TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL ENFORCEMENT INVESTIGATION OPENED:
On Friday (Nov. 6), the Texas Attorney General’s Open Records Enforcement Section officially served the City of Bedford with a 10-day compliance enforcement notice for failing to comply with Texas Government Code § 552.306(c) after the AG ordered them to turn over Atlas's records!
4️⃣ LANDMARK FEDERAL COURT PRECEDENT (LILLY v. CITY OF AUSTIN):
They also submitted exhibits showing U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra's October 26, 2026 Permanent Injunction Order in Lilly v. City of Austin and the sworn declaration of board-certified veterinary behaviorist Dr. Kenneth Martin, DVM, DACVB —where the judge ordered a similar staged rehabilation that Bedford had agreed to for Atlas before they tried to extort a civil-rights waiver, NDA, and public-records ban out of us!
⚖️ WHAT THEY ARE ASKING THE JUDGE TO ORDER ON THURSDAY:
FIRST (Within 24 Hours): Force the City of Bedford to disclose where Atlas is being held and allow an independent licensed veterinarian to examine Atlas within 24 hours so eyeballs are finally laid on him and we know his true physical and mental condition.
OPTION 1 (Supersedeas Bond):
Set a $350.00 supersedeas bond under Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 24.2 and order the City to release Atlas back to Tammi while the appeal proceeds.
OPTION 2 (Alternative Neutral Placement):
If the Judge prefers a neutral third-party custodian during the appeal, order Atlas immediately transferred to Dori Naivar (@DoriNaivarWrkdg) at WorkDog Rescue and Rehabilitation, who submitted a sworn declaration ready to take Atlas into secure dual-containment decompression and DACVB rehabilitation at zero cost to the City.
⏳ WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP:
If the Judge rules in her favor on Thursday—whether she grants the 24-hour vet inspection, sets the bond to let Atlas go, or orders him transferred to WorkDog—Tammi cannot afford a single day of delay.
She must be ready to pay for a portion of the below expenses:
$1,200 – Emergency 24-Hour On-Site Veterinary Exam & Comprehensive Medical Workup
$350 – Court-Ordered Supersedeas Bond
$650 – Certified Secure Canine Transport
$4,200 – 30-Day Intensive Decompression, Secure Housing & Rehabilitation at WorkDog Rescue and Rehabilitation: Private, 1-on-1 handling by founder Dori Naivar, specialized nutrition, and post-isolation trauma rehabilitation.
$1,200 – Board-Certified Veterinary Behaviorist (DACVB) Assessments & Treatment Protocol:
1) Initial comprehensive behavioral evaluation after 30 days of decompression by a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists (DACVB), customized behavioral medication/rehabilitation plan, and
2) follow-up DACVB clearance assessment.
$400 - Food, bed, leash, collar, and other expenses needed during rehabilitation.
Every dollar donated goes strictly toward Atlas's bond, veterinary care, transport, decompression, and rehabilitation, and all donations and expenditures will be transparently reported.
Tammi has been left almost penniless after fighting this battle for over 3 years, paying just in attorney's fees, over $10k.
If you are able, we are asking anyone to please donate to help Tammi save Atlas now and/or share this fundraiser.
👇 PLEASE DONATE & OR SHARE THE OFFICIAL FUNDRAISER LINK HERE: spot.fund/xx4r1hhsc
Please pray for Atlas this Thursday at 2:00 PM, share this everywhere, and help Tammi be ready the second the Judge gives the green light.
DAY 566. #FreeAtlas
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This one goes out to all the self-serving "Wall Kissers" that claim to represent us when their hearts belong to a fortification wall in the middle of a desert.
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Thank you for advocating for Snuggles!
To respectfully clarify, Snuggles’ case was brought by the City of Tucson, not Pima County Atty Laura Conover. Although the county does have involvement in the broad matter, it’s the City’s prosecution and the resulting court orders that are at issue.
@ChristinaMaccio is actively and brilliantly fighting those orders through the courts, just like she did for Major and his dad, Shane. ⛓️💥🐶❤️
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This dog was just stabbed to death on Skid Row and bled out. I have no words but immense anger. This sweet dog was just at our vet clinic last week and now the dog is in a garbage bag. @MayorOfLA I am coming for you every single day, you demonic insane individual. I am disgusted with you and I am disgusted with so many people in power in Los Angeles.
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She came home and found her dog had been stabbed
This happened at an apartment complex in Midwest City, Oklahoma. Police and animal welfare officers got the dog to treatment, and as of Saturday morning the dog was alive but in critical condition.
Police say they have no suspect and no witnesses. Someone out there knows something. If that's you, contact Midwest City Police.
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THANK YOU FOR FIGO'S LAW, GOVERNOR. WE'RE ASKING FOR ONE MORE STEP.
@GovKemp, Georgia already put a police dog's name on a law. You signed it in 2023, and it made the penalties tougher for anyone who harms a police K9.
We're asking you to take a look at the ARC Act and sign the pledge. Armor while they serve, a real retirement, and care after they hang up the badge.
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MAJOR has thankfully been saved… now he needs our healing prayers… he’s been put thru hell for over 500 days!!
💔😭🙏🏽❤️🩹
MAJOR the Malinois HAS BEEN SAVED.
After 575 days locked up, a federal judge just saved his life.
In case you forgot, here's what happened:
Major was struck by a car and injured.
2 women unknown to him, approached him and tried to pick him up.
He bit one of them on the arms. He was scared. And he was injured.
Austin Animal Services seized Major.
A city court ordered him put down A county court agreed.
A Texas appeals court upheld it in February.
He sat in isolation.
No one could touch him. Or walk him.
His owner, Shane Lilly, was told to come say goodbye.
THE FIGHT:
Lilly says he has a brain injury and Major helps with his seizures.
A "FREE MAJOR" petition drew tens of thousands of signatures.
Willie Nelson spoke up for him.
Supporters rallied outside the shelter.
Sept. 9: lawyers filed a federal disability lawsuit, two days before he was set to die.
Judge David Ezra blocked it at the last minute.
Lilly says he has a brain injury and Major helps with his seizures
THE RULING:
Late Monday, Ezra permanently barred Austin from putting Major down.
Austin must release him to a rescue within 30 days.
He'll be sedated and muzzled for the move.
He gets at least 30 days to decompress outside Austin.
Only Lilly and a vet can see him during that time.
He can go home to Lilly if the vet signs off.
Never to the public.
And, Lilly must carry $100K in liability insurance
WHAT'S NEXT
The city will comply but still calls him a safety risk.
No move date yet. The rescue hasn't been named.
Hang on, Major.
You're almost home 🐶
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My friend Jayson had a dog named Charlie. If you need a good cry, press play. You were the goodest boy, Charlie. 💔🐶
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🚨 BREAKING: MAJOR LILLY WILL LIVE! FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS PERMANENT INJUNCTION AND TRANSFER OUT OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER! 🚨
October 26, 2026 — U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra has signed a FINAL JUDGMENT granting a PERMANENT INJUNCTION protecting Major Lilly from euthanasia!
And there is so much more to this victory.
🐾 MAJOR CANNOT BE EUTHANIZED. The City of Austin and its agents are permanently prohibited from destroying Major or transferring him elsewhere for destruction.
🐾 MAJOR MUST LEAVE AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER WITHIN 30 DAYS. He will be transferred to a licensed rescue organization acting on behalf of his owner, Shane Ryan Lilly.
🐾 DECOMPRESSION IS COURT-ORDERED. Major must receive a minimum of 30 days of decompression outside Austin and Travis County.
🐾 PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION IS COURT-ORDERED.
Dr. Kenneth Martin, a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, (DACVB) will oversee Major's treatment, rehabilitation, retraining, and assessment. He will determine how much additional time Major needs.
🐾 REUNIFICATION WITH SHANE IS POSSIBLE!
Once Dr. Martin determines Major can safely return to Shane and have contact with others, he must provide written certification explaining that determination to the federal court.
🐾 NO NEW STATUTORY DANGEROUS-DOG FINDING! Judge Ezra expressly states that his order does not constitute a dangerous-dog finding under Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 822, Subchapter D. The federal order imposes its own safety requirements.
⚖️ THE FEDERAL COURT ALSO FOUND:
✅ Shane qualifies as an individual with a disability under the ADA.
✅ His federal ADA claim is not barred by the Rooker–Feldman doctrine or res judicata.
✅ Killing Major would cause Shane irreparable injury that monetary damages could not adequately remedy.
✅ The balance of equities and public interest support permanent injunctive relief.
AND HERE IS SOMETHING PARTICULARLY SIGNIFICANT TO ME.
For months, I have advocated my deFURment framework: removing dogs from prolonged confinement, allowing controlled decompression, obtaining qualified behavioral assessment and rehabilitation, and determining an individualized path toward safe reunification.
That is substantially the process this federal order now requires for Major.
Major is not being sent directly home. He is being given something far more meaningful than another round of confinement: a structured opportunity to recover, be professionally evaluated, and potentially return to Shane.
🐕 This is a tremendous victory for Major, Shane, and attorney @ChristinaMaccio who single-handedly saved this dog at the 11th hour. That is not an exaggeration.
⛓️💥🐶❤️ THANK YOU CHRISTINA--FOR SELFLESSLY GIVING YOUR TIME AND EXPERTISE TO SAVE THIS PRECIOUS DOG!!!!
SEE SCREENSHOTS--
Shane Ryan Lilly v. City of Austin, et al., Case No. 1:26-cv-02486-DAE, Document 25, signed October 26, 2026.
Now, let's #FREEATLAS and #FREESNUGGLES!! ⛓️💥🐶❤️
Yesterday I posted a statement from @WillieNelson and #FreeMajor.
I knew more—but sometimes helping a dog means NOT posting what you know.
I met attorney @ChristinaMaccio when she took on the Snuggles case. I had been helping Snuggles' mom, researching the law, animal-welfare issues, and building an organized Google Drive of materials for her future legal counsel to use as they saw fit.
So when Major came onto my radar, sadly I knew enough to recognize what I was looking at.
First let me introduce you to Major Lilly — and explain why his case goes far beyond one dog.
Note: It is considerably shortened. You can read more on Instagram on @TheTRAPRS page.
🐶 Major is a Belgian Malinois who has been held by the City of Austin since March 31, 2025—which was DAY ONE.
➡️ As of today, he has been held 528 DAYS. Sound familiar?
Major's owner, Shane Lilly, has a disability and Major assists him with disability-related tasks that if you know how hard this is to accomplish, is irreplaceable.
On May 31, 2025, Major was hit by a vehicle and was injured. Shane was on foot and didn't have a way to get to an emergency vet and didn't have his phone. He went to go get help.
Major was limping and yelping when two women attempted to corral him out of traffic. One of them was bitten and had to go to the hospital to be treated. She was treated and released the same day.
Austin Animal Control's (AAC) investigator documented it as a “provoked bite” — meaning Major was reacting to the circumstances, not attacking without cause.
According to records, AAC initially told him he could take Major home. Shane asked them to keep Major because Major was injured and Shane did not have the resources at that moment to get him the veterinary treatment he needed.
➡️ On April 9, Austin obtained a seizure warrant under Texas Health & Safety Code Chapter 822.
The ACO affidavit stated something Shane emphatically disputes: it said Shane told her this was the sixth person Major had bitten, and we have supported that by finding no record showing Major had ever bitten or seriously injured anyone before March 31.
The woman who was bitten didn’t even testify because she didn’t want Major to be hurt.
➡️ Despite that, on April 15, Austin Municipal Court ordered Major destroyed.
Shane appealed. A Travis County court held a new hearing in July 2025 and again ordered Major destroyed. Shane kept appealing. The Third Court of Appeals affirmed the order in February. The Texas Supreme Court declined review, and the state appellate process reached its end. Shane had no other way to save Major.
Last Friday, AAC emailed Shane and gave him an appointment for 9:00am September 11 — for his final visit with Major. (The irony of the date Austin chose does not escape me. ⁉️)
➡️ This is where my involvement in Major's case began.
Christina brought the litigation expertise; I brought what I had learned from years in animal welfare and from living inside these cases, and my quest to find the common thread in them around the country.
Christina and I spent hours collaborating on what we found on the case and I knew she had the brilliance and expertise he needed and she wanted to see if she could possibly help. We needed to speak with Shane, but neither of us knew him.
So I went looking. I worked backward through social media—posts, comments, names, connections—trying to figure out who actually knew something and who might lead me to Shane. After days of digging, I got a lead and was connected with Caitlin at @TheTRAPRS, who had been helping Shane for a couple weeks.
Caitlin’s side had the connection—and our side had the brilliant lawyer that was willing to step up.
We all got on the phone, Christina took the case, and she got busy.
⚖️ Yesterday, Christina filed a federal civil-rights action on behalf of Shane Lilly in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, along with an emergency request to stop the City of Austin from euthanizing Major, called a TRO.
➡️ Today, U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra granted the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO).
🙌 Major is safe.
The order itself is sealed for now, so I cannot discuss its contents. If anyone tells you they know, his counsel would like to have a word.
This is not the end of Major’s case. The TRO will keep Major alive long enough for the federal issues to be heard. So more updates are coming.
Christina worked under EXTREME time pressure. I am awe struck at the precision in which she filed, and how brilliantly and accurately she answered hard questions the judge gave her. She did all this in THREE DAYS.
Judge Ezra and his staff were also handed a genuinely difficult federal case on an emergency timetable and gave it immediate consideration and a quick decision. That needs to be said.
And so does her name—@ChristinaMaccio. 🙌
There is a much bigger story here about Major, Atlas, Snuggles, the lawyers and experts these cases desperately need, and why we cannot continue fighting these cases one dog at a time.
🐶❤️ But today belongs to Major and Shane, thanks to @ChristinaMaccio, the attorney who made sure for Major, there would still BE a tomorrow.
#FreeMajor
*Video courtesy of Caitlin/@TheTRAPRS.
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I’m going to make California the best state in America for dogs!
And that means getting rid of POINTLESS killjoy rules through the Office of Fun and Freedom.
My dogs, George and Penny, are very excited about this one.
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Major—DAY 563
Atlas—DAY 541
Snuggles—DAY 373
➡️ THREE different dogs, all seized and confined in isolation for extraordinary lengths of time that shock the conscience, with no visitation from family, no records shared voluntarily, no exercise, no socialization, fought by 3 different cities, in 2 different states, for 3 different underlying accusations, with shockingly similar civil rights violations.
⁉️I can’t be the only one who knows what they all have in common? ⁉️
#savemajor #saveatlas #savesnuggles #notwhatyouthink
📆 DAY ONE—4/22/25: THE DAY THEY TOOK HIM—THE STORY OF ATLAS—CHAPTER 4 🐕
My last post ended on December 4, 2024 after the phantom hearing.
Tammi went home to Atlas, and things were normal, for about more than 4 months. After December 4, she didn't hear a word from the court or her 'lawyer', nor did she get any documentation of her case, or signed judgment. She thought it strange, but just wanted to forget about everything that had happened and move on.
🚨 But then April 20 came.
➡️ 4/20/25—It was Easter Sunday, and Tammi was out shopping for dinner. She got home around 4pm and promptly went up to the attic to get easter egg coloring supplies and got started dying eggs. Atlas was asleep on her bed. It was 4:30-5pm.
She went outside to turn on the water for the lawn....and heard a door bang shut. She turned around and saw Atlas on the steps and he started toward the lawn.
Knowing this could not happen, Tammi grabbed her keys and leash and set off after him, before he was even out of the yard. Of course, being pretty predictable, he headed to Jazzy's house. Never losing sight of him, he got to Jazzy's with Tammi right behind him, and Jazzy's mom met them in the driveway. They laughed at lover boy's persistence, and Tammi leashed him, and went home. The entire incident was less than 5 minutes. Atlas never came across a single person on the way to or from Jazzy's house.
➡️ 4/21/25—The next day, someone calls a complaint in they say happened on 4/20 "around 3pm". 🤔
Morales shows up and leaves a ticket on her door for "failure to comply". Tammi was annoyed but was prepared to pay the ticket and fix the springs on the door that had failed to keep the door shut.
➡️ 4/22/25—An army of police surrounded Tammi's house along with Morales and a warrant to take Atlas. They said he had attacked someone else and were going to take him. Tammi, rightfully shocked and angry, said something like "over my dead body"...police body-cam captured the entire scene but has NEVER been viewed by Tammi or her defense after repeated requests. (look up Spoliation)
Note: the warrant came into hand on 4/23 according to Morales, which is incorrect. This is one of many examples of problematic systemic negligence in Bedford's 'documentation' practices.
👮♀️👮♂️🚓👮🚔 Police claimed she expressed suicidal threats 9 times. They called her attorney for some reason, ended up arresting Tammi, and took her to a mental facility. She was stuck there for 2 days while they assessed her. Concluding she possessed mostly a fiery Irish temper, they let her go home, to the tune of $3,440.
💔 When she got home, Atlas was gone.
TAMMI HAS NOT SEEN ATLAS SINCE THAT DAY.
➡️ 4/25/25—The 'victim' identified a dog that did not even look like Atlas, and the photo Morales showed her was never submitted to the court as evidence. The photo the 'victim' submitted also did not match the description of her injury, as first it was a "bite" but then he scratched her "back". The photo, er, um, shows the scratch is much lower than her "back". 🫏
Also, interestingly, this 'victim' ALSO, like the 3rd alleged victim, filed a lawsuit against Tammi using her home owner's insurance, but in order to get the payout, it has to happen on Tammi's property. All records state it did NOT, and have a completely different address than Tammi's home. ⁉️ INSURANCE FRAUD ⁉️
MEANWHILE: Bedford official Andrea Roy sent an email to a citizen stating that Atlas, “the dog in question may have been mistakenly blamed for an incident in which he was not involved.” WHY DIDN'T THIS GET SUBMITTED TO THE COURT?
➡️ 4/28/25—Tammi hired Don Feare again, paid him another $2,500 and he had her file her own motion for appearance of counsel and discovery. The court hearing was set for May 1, 2025. Don Feare told Tammi he could not make that date so told her to ask for more time. What Tammi did not realize when he did this:
😡 THIS DELAY PUTS TAMMI OUTSIDE OF HER 10 DAY COMPLIANCE WINDOW 😲
Keep up, it gets even more wild.
➡️ 5/1/25—The city sends Feare an email and show the discovery items on an inventory sheet confirming that a flash drive containing audio, video, photos, and police logs is ready for pickup.
➡️ 5/5/25—Feare picks up the 'evidence' FOUR days after he is notified it is ready. He gives Tammi a CD and claims it "doesn't play" (Texas CCP 39.14).
⚖️ TRIAL BY AMBUSH 👨⚖️
➡️ 5/7/25—The Bedford Municipal Court held a hearing where Tammi was not allowed to speak, and her attorney barely said a word in defense of her. She thought (and her attorney confirmed) that all she was there to defend was that she was out of compliance, and according to section 18-155, if she was found out of compliance, which states she has 10 days to get in compliance, and if she does, the court would return Atlas to her.
👉 REMEMBER FEARE REQUESTED A RESET??
HER OWN ATTORNEY NOT ONLY DID NOT ENSURE SHE HAD THE EVIDENCE TO DEFEND HERSELF...
BUT HIS REQUEST PUSHED HER OUT OF THAT 10 DAY WINDOW SHE HAD TO SHOW SHE WAS IN COMPLIANCE 🤯
...so what do you think happened?
❌ THE JUDGE ORDERED ATLAS KILLED INSTEAD ❌
Basing her decision on:
1) the judgment from 12/4 deeming him a Dangerous Dog
👉 A JUDGMENT THAT DOES NOT EXIST 👈
2) and that Atlas was out of his enclosure without a muzzle and leash
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Bedford has since tried to swap in the November 20th Animal Services paper as the "backup" designation—major foul play.
Under Texas law:
An Animal Control Authority can make an initial administrative determination that a dog is dangerous.
However, an administrative determination is not a court order.
If she went to court in December, that administrative piece was supposed to be formalized into an official, judge-signed civil judgment.
If the judge never signed it, there was no legal order in place forcing the muzzle/leash requirements mentioned in the May 7th judgment.
None of that mattered. Bedford did as they had wanted all along, and ordered her dog to be killed.
🐷 That's not all folks!
(as always, receipts in the comments)
BUCKLE UP, BECAUSE IT GETS WORSE.
Stay tuned for Chapter 5.
💔 TODAY IS DAY 541. 💔
#FREEATLAS
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🐕 MEET ATLAS—A silly dog—but your typical German Shepherd. Sweet. Smart. Sometimes a little too smart for his own good. Somewhat small for his breed, but a beautiful boy.
On April 22, 2025, Atlas was confined by the City of Bedford, Texas, and ordered killed for something he didn't do.
He was 4 years old.
🐕🦺🐕🐩🦮 Atlas was friends with everything. And he had a lot of friends.
👩 Atlas loved his momma, who has given all she has in her life to prove he's innocent, to fight to bring him home to his human brother and canine brothers.
Atlas has had no meaningful human interaction, unless you count catch poles and iron doors.
He has not been outside. He has not touched grass. He has not been outside his cage.
On June 24, his mom was told he was being moved to the police station, to avoid public scrutiny, as a recent social media post had caused rescues and advocates to call and harass the staff.
A police station....where isolation is certain...and cement floors a reality.
The City has refused to provide his mom, Tammi, any kind of updates on his location, health, well-being, or even a photo to ease her mind.
💔 Not surprisingly, after over 3 months of these conditions at the police station, and over 500 days of confinement, Tammi was told Atlas had suffered a MENTAL BREAK.
The City offered to pay her "a few thousand dollars" to purchase him and give up her owner rights.
She declined.
Yet even in the face of a mental break, the City continued to REFUSE to provide a single record or update documenting his health and well being.
🤯 Even after a decision from the Texas Attorney General said they had to.
It has never been proven in court that Atlas bit anyone.
Atlas is now almost 6 years old.
🔐 AS OF OCTOBER 16, 2026, ATLAS HAS BEEN CONFINED FOR 542 DAYS.
In the State Appeal process, the recent brilliant brief responses her attorney submitted, and public records requests pressures had brought them to the table. The City was ready to negotiate Atlas' release.
The City had even AGREED to the deFURment Program, a detailed, staged rehabilitation approach I had created for Tammi to provide the City and the Court to ensure both public safety concerns and humane treatment were met through (in short):
1) a certified transport service
2) DACVB assessment with recommendations for rehabilitation (after decompression)
3) safe decompression
4) a rehabilitation + training program provided by naming one of the top expert credentialed trainers in Texas, @DoriNaivarWrkdg with WorkDog Rescue + Rehabilitation
5) a second DACVB assessment with recommendations moving forward for Atlas
....but they ADDED conditions...
⁉️ The City demanded I stop the "barrage" of my independent public records requests.
⁉️ The City demanded I also give up my independent pursuit of the records the Attorney General had ordered them to provide to me.
⁉️ The City demanded Tammi waive her right to file a Federal Civil Rights case against them.
⁉️ The City demanded Tammi, nor HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY or any "ADVOCATES" be present for ANY part of the transfer process.
⁉️ The City demanded they not release Atlas until 10 days FOLLOWING a signed agreement, to ensure no one violated their demand that Tammi nor anyone she knew speak ill of Bedford or their associates.
⁉️ They even threatened to withdraw the settlement unless I stopped submitting records requests.
❌ Tammi answered that she would never sign away her right to FREE SPEECH.
💰 If they wanted her to waive her civil rights, she gave them a figure that research had shown her was a reasonable settlement amount for such a precious American citizen right.
❌ They declined Tammi's counter offer.
⚖️ Then they violated the Attorney General's public records order, after which I filed a formal complaint with the OAG.
With negotiations at an end, and Atlas' "mental break" almost a month since they announced it, things became urgent.
📁 Tammi's attorney is now preparing an EMERGENCY MOTION to force the City to allow a veterinarian to examine Atlas in person, report his physical, mental and health condition back to the judge, and then allow Tammi to carry out the plan the City agreed to, and securely transfer Atlas to a safe decompression site and rehab center provided by @DoriNaivarWrkdg at WorkDog.
⏳ Tammi will need to quickly secure the funds needed for costs associated with the veterinarian who examines Atlas, the transportation, secure location, and DACVB fees.
The city already admitted this plan is safe. They chose concealment over a solution. The legal battle is with the judges, but securing his safety and road back to health depends entirely on us.
🐶❤️ If you would like to donate to help Tammi free Atlas, please use the following usernames/links:
➡️ Zelle: saveatlasnow@gmail.com
➡️ CashApp: cash.app/$saveAtlasnow
➡️ Venmo: @saveAtlasnow
➡️ PayPal: Coming Soon
✅ To ensure transparency and accountability, all donations and expenditures will be reported monthly.
📩 If you want to send Tammi words of encouragement, feel free to email her at saveatlasnow@gmail.com
Thank you for helping free Atlas. ⛓️💥🐶❤️
DAY 542.
#FREEATLAS
📆 DAY ONE—4/22/25: THE DAY THEY TOOK HIM—THE STORY OF ATLAS—CHAPTER 4 🐕
My last post ended on December 4, 2024 after the phantom hearing.
Tammi went home to Atlas, and things were normal, for about more than 4 months. After December 4, she didn't hear a word from the court or her 'lawyer', nor did she get any documentation of her case, or signed judgment. She thought it strange, but just wanted to forget about everything that had happened and move on.
🚨 But then April 20 came.
➡️ 4/20/25—It was Easter Sunday, and Tammi was out shopping for dinner. She got home around 4pm and promptly went up to the attic to get easter egg coloring supplies and got started dying eggs. Atlas was asleep on her bed. It was 4:30-5pm.
She went outside to turn on the water for the lawn....and heard a door bang shut. She turned around and saw Atlas on the steps and he started toward the lawn.
Knowing this could not happen, Tammi grabbed her keys and leash and set off after him, before he was even out of the yard. Of course, being pretty predictable, he headed to Jazzy's house. Never losing sight of him, he got to Jazzy's with Tammi right behind him, and Jazzy's mom met them in the driveway. They laughed at lover boy's persistence, and Tammi leashed him, and went home. The entire incident was less than 5 minutes. Atlas never came across a single person on the way to or from Jazzy's house.
➡️ 4/21/25—The next day, someone calls a complaint in they say happened on 4/20 "around 3pm". 🤔
Morales shows up and leaves a ticket on her door for "failure to comply". Tammi was annoyed but was prepared to pay the ticket and fix the springs on the door that had failed to keep the door shut.
➡️ 4/22/25—An army of police surrounded Tammi's house along with Morales and a warrant to take Atlas. They said he had attacked someone else and were going to take him. Tammi, rightfully shocked and angry, said something like "over my dead body"...police body-cam captured the entire scene but has NEVER been viewed by Tammi or her defense after repeated requests. (look up Spoliation)
Note: the warrant came into hand on 4/23 according to Morales, which is incorrect. This is one of many examples of problematic systemic negligence in Bedford's 'documentation' practices.
👮♀️👮♂️🚓👮🚔 Police claimed she expressed suicidal threats 9 times. They called her attorney for some reason, ended up arresting Tammi, and took her to a mental facility. She was stuck there for 2 days while they assessed her. Concluding she possessed mostly a fiery Irish temper, they let her go home, to the tune of $3,440.
💔 When she got home, Atlas was gone.
TAMMI HAS NOT SEEN ATLAS SINCE THAT DAY.
➡️ 4/25/25—The 'victim' identified a dog that did not even look like Atlas, and the photo Morales showed her was never submitted to the court as evidence. The photo the 'victim' submitted also did not match the description of her injury, as first it was a "bite" but then he scratched her "back". The photo, er, um, shows the scratch is much lower than her "back". 🫏
Also, interestingly, this 'victim' ALSO, like the 3rd alleged victim, filed a lawsuit against Tammi using her home owner's insurance, but in order to get the payout, it has to happen on Tammi's property. All records state it did NOT, and have a completely different address than Tammi's home. ⁉️ INSURANCE FRAUD ⁉️
MEANWHILE: Bedford official Andrea Roy sent an email to a citizen stating that Atlas, “the dog in question may have been mistakenly blamed for an incident in which he was not involved.” WHY DIDN'T THIS GET SUBMITTED TO THE COURT?
➡️ 4/28/25—Tammi hired Don Feare again, paid him another $2,500 and he had her file her own motion for appearance of counsel and discovery. The court hearing was set for May 1, 2025. Don Feare told Tammi he could not make that date so told her to ask for more time. What Tammi did not realize when he did this:
😡 THIS DELAY PUTS TAMMI OUTSIDE OF HER 10 DAY COMPLIANCE WINDOW 😲
Keep up, it gets even more wild.
➡️ 5/1/25—The city sends Feare an email and show the discovery items on an inventory sheet confirming that a flash drive containing audio, video, photos, and police logs is ready for pickup.
➡️ 5/5/25—Feare picks up the 'evidence' FOUR days after he is notified it is ready. He gives Tammi a CD and claims it "doesn't play" (Texas CCP 39.14).
⚖️ TRIAL BY AMBUSH 👨⚖️
➡️ 5/7/25—The Bedford Municipal Court held a hearing where Tammi was not allowed to speak, and her attorney barely said a word in defense of her. She thought (and her attorney confirmed) that all she was there to defend was that she was out of compliance, and according to section 18-155, if she was found out of compliance, which states she has 10 days to get in compliance, and if she does, the court would return Atlas to her.
👉 REMEMBER FEARE REQUESTED A RESET??
HER OWN ATTORNEY NOT ONLY DID NOT ENSURE SHE HAD THE EVIDENCE TO DEFEND HERSELF...
BUT HIS REQUEST PUSHED HER OUT OF THAT 10 DAY WINDOW SHE HAD TO SHOW SHE WAS IN COMPLIANCE 🤯
...so what do you think happened?
❌ THE JUDGE ORDERED ATLAS KILLED INSTEAD ❌
Basing her decision on:
1) the judgment from 12/4 deeming him a Dangerous Dog
👉 A JUDGMENT THAT DOES NOT EXIST 👈
2) and that Atlas was out of his enclosure without a muzzle and leash
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Bedford has since tried to swap in the November 20th Animal Services paper as the "backup" designation—major foul play.
Under Texas law:
An Animal Control Authority can make an initial administrative determination that a dog is dangerous.
However, an administrative determination is not a court order.
If she went to court in December, that administrative piece was supposed to be formalized into an official, judge-signed civil judgment.
If the judge never signed it, there was no legal order in place forcing the muzzle/leash requirements mentioned in the May 7th judgment.
None of that mattered. Bedford did as they had wanted all along, and ordered her dog to be killed.
🐷 That's not all folks!
(as always, receipts in the comments)
BUCKLE UP, BECAUSE IT GETS WORSE.
Stay tuned for Chapter 5.
💔 TODAY IS DAY 541. 💔
#FREEATLAS
Patrick Richner retweeted
📆 DAY ONE—4/22/25: THE DAY THEY TOOK HIM—THE STORY OF ATLAS—CHAPTER 4 🐕
My last post ended on December 4, 2024 after the phantom hearing.
Tammi went home to Atlas, and things were normal, for about more than 4 months. After December 4, she didn't hear a word from the court or her 'lawyer', nor did she get any documentation of her case, or signed judgment. She thought it strange, but just wanted to forget about everything that had happened and move on.
🚨 But then April 20 came.
➡️ 4/20/25—It was Easter Sunday, and Tammi was out shopping for dinner. She got home around 4pm and promptly went up to the attic to get easter egg coloring supplies and got started dying eggs. Atlas was asleep on her bed. It was 4:30-5pm.
She went outside to turn on the water for the lawn....and heard a door bang shut. She turned around and saw Atlas on the steps and he started toward the lawn.
Knowing this could not happen, Tammi grabbed her keys and leash and set off after him, before he was even out of the yard. Of course, being pretty predictable, he headed to Jazzy's house. Never losing sight of him, he got to Jazzy's with Tammi right behind him, and Jazzy's mom met them in the driveway. They laughed at lover boy's persistence, and Tammi leashed him, and went home. The entire incident was less than 5 minutes. Atlas never came across a single person on the way to or from Jazzy's house.
➡️ 4/21/25—The next day, someone calls a complaint in they say happened on 4/20 "around 3pm". 🤔
Morales shows up and leaves a ticket on her door for "failure to comply". Tammi was annoyed but was prepared to pay the ticket and fix the springs on the door that had failed to keep the door shut.
➡️ 4/22/25—An army of police surrounded Tammi's house along with Morales and a warrant to take Atlas. They said he had attacked someone else and were going to take him. Tammi, rightfully shocked and angry, said something like "over my dead body"...police body-cam captured the entire scene but has NEVER been viewed by Tammi or her defense after repeated requests. (look up Spoliation)
Note: the warrant came into hand on 4/23 according to Morales, which is incorrect. This is one of many examples of problematic systemic negligence in Bedford's 'documentation' practices.
👮♀️👮♂️🚓👮🚔 Police claimed she expressed suicidal threats 9 times. They called her attorney for some reason, ended up arresting Tammi, and took her to a mental facility. She was stuck there for 2 days while they assessed her. Concluding she possessed mostly a fiery Irish temper, they let her go home, to the tune of $3,440.
💔 When she got home, Atlas was gone.
TAMMI HAS NOT SEEN ATLAS SINCE THAT DAY.
➡️ 4/25/25—The 'victim' identified a dog that did not even look like Atlas, and the photo Morales showed her was never submitted to the court as evidence. The photo the 'victim' submitted also did not match the description of her injury, as first it was a "bite" but then he scratched her "back". The photo, er, um, shows the scratch is much lower than her "back". 🫏
Also, interestingly, this 'victim' ALSO, like the 3rd alleged victim, filed a lawsuit against Tammi using her home owner's insurance, but in order to get the payout, it has to happen on Tammi's property. All records state it did NOT, and have a completely different address than Tammi's home. ⁉️ INSURANCE FRAUD ⁉️
MEANWHILE: Bedford official Andrea Roy sent an email to a citizen stating that Atlas, “the dog in question may have been mistakenly blamed for an incident in which he was not involved.” WHY DIDN'T THIS GET SUBMITTED TO THE COURT?
➡️ 4/28/25—Tammi hired Don Feare again, paid him another $2,500 and he had her file her own motion for appearance of counsel and discovery. The court hearing was set for May 1, 2025. Don Feare told Tammi he could not make that date so told her to ask for more time. What Tammi did not realize when he did this:
😡 THIS DELAY PUTS TAMMI OUTSIDE OF HER 10 DAY COMPLIANCE WINDOW 😲
Keep up, it gets even more wild.
➡️ 5/1/25—The city sends Feare an email and show the discovery items on an inventory sheet confirming that a flash drive containing audio, video, photos, and police logs is ready for pickup.
➡️ 5/5/25—Feare picks up the 'evidence' FOUR days after he is notified it is ready. He gives Tammi a CD and claims it "doesn't play" (Texas CCP 39.14).
⚖️ TRIAL BY AMBUSH 👨⚖️
➡️ 5/7/25—The Bedford Municipal Court held a hearing where Tammi was not allowed to speak, and her attorney barely said a word in defense of her. She thought (and her attorney confirmed) that all she was there to defend was that she was out of compliance, and according to section 18-155, if she was found out of compliance, which states she has 10 days to get in compliance, and if she does, the court would return Atlas to her.
👉 REMEMBER FEARE REQUESTED A RESET??
HER OWN ATTORNEY NOT ONLY DID NOT ENSURE SHE HAD THE EVIDENCE TO DEFEND HERSELF...
BUT HIS REQUEST PUSHED HER OUT OF THAT 10 DAY WINDOW SHE HAD TO SHOW SHE WAS IN COMPLIANCE 🤯
...so what do you think happened?
❌ THE JUDGE ORDERED ATLAS KILLED INSTEAD ❌
Basing her decision on:
1) the judgment from 12/4 deeming him a Dangerous Dog
👉 A JUDGMENT THAT DOES NOT EXIST 👈
2) and that Atlas was out of his enclosure without a muzzle and leash
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Bedford has since tried to swap in the November 20th Animal Services paper as the "backup" designation—major foul play.
Under Texas law:
An Animal Control Authority can make an initial administrative determination that a dog is dangerous.
However, an administrative determination is not a court order.
If she went to court in December, that administrative piece was supposed to be formalized into an official, judge-signed civil judgment.
If the judge never signed it, there was no legal order in place forcing the muzzle/leash requirements mentioned in the May 7th judgment.
None of that mattered. Bedford did as they had wanted all along, and ordered her dog to be killed.
🐷 That's not all folks!
(as always, receipts in the comments)
BUCKLE UP, BECAUSE IT GETS WORSE.
Stay tuned for Chapter 5.
💔 TODAY IS DAY 541. 💔
#FREEATLAS
⚖️ GROUND ZERO & THE PHANTOM HEARING—THE STORY OF ATLAS—CHAPTER 3 🐕
My last post ended on December 3, 2024.
Atlas was home. Tammi had done everything Bedford required of her to get him back home: built the enclosure, got insurance, got the muzzle and registered Atlas, etc. ✅
She thought she needed to make the corrections Animal Control outlined to get Atlas back, even though she DISAGREED with the Dangerous Dog notice and designation from November 20, 2024.
When she got that notice on Nov 20, Tammi did what she needed to do to prepare to defend herself, and Atlas—and the notice said she had 15 days to file an appeal, which gave her until around Dec 4. ⬅️
She hired animal lawyer Don Feare and paid him a large fee to represent her. He told her to file her appeal request. And we know on Nov 22 she went in person to the courthouse and filed a handwritten appeal.
They stamped it, and she thought it was a done deal.
➡️ Tammi HAD NOT seen any evidence at this point yet, as they had never been to court over it.
Tammi wanted the chance to tell a judge her side of the story, and challenge the so called evidence they allegedly had.
She knew the truth and was going to show them there wasn't a single medical report, it was a lot of hearsay, and fight back for Atlas.
➡️ November 22, Tammi received a notice from the Bedford Municipal Court, and a letter from Doug Campbell, the court admin.
**See images of documents attached—these are important!**
📍 CAUSE NO. DDH12042024
🐶 NOTICE OF DANGEROUS DOG HEARING
📆 DECEMBER 4, 2024 -- 8:00 A.M.
Tammi believed December 4 was her opportunity to go before the court and fight the dangerous-dog determination.
But Tammi did not see anything else before December 4 from her LAWYER or the court and are NO WHERE in the court records.
❌ No 'notice of appearance of counsel' was filed by her lawyer.
❌ No 'notice of discovery' was filed by her lawyer.
What you'd expect to see from an attorney before a court hearing—ya know—one of those pesky CIVIL RIGHTS things that gives US Citizens the right to see the evidence that is going to be presented against them? 🤔
December 4, Tammi met her attorney at Bedford Municipal Court.
👽 This is where the story gets VERY strange.👽
According to Tammi, approximately 14 people were there that morning, including people connected to the incidents Bedford had been investigating.
THEY went into the courtroom.
❌ TAMMI, DID NOT. 🤯
Tammi says she was made to wait outside IN THE LOBBY while her own attorney went into the courtroom without her. 🤯 ⁉️
She waited. Eventually, her attorney came back out. According to Tammi, he told her she had two choices:
💔🐶 Accept the dangerous-dog designation—or Atlas would be euthanized.
Atlas had been home for ONE DAY.
Tammi didn't understand dangerous-dog law. She didn't understand what was happening procedurally. She hired an expensive attorney she could not afford to help her, that supposedly understood animal law and was trusted by many.
She had no idea what had just happened or the mind-blowing CIVIL RIGHTS violation implications that had just happened to her.
But she did understand one thing:
💔 She did not want Atlas killed.
☹️ So she agreed.
Tammi says she was then brought into the courtroom, and in front of the smirking 'witnesses' was asked two short questions by the judge, and verbally accepted the dangerous-dog designation.
➡️ There was NO evidence presented.
➡️ There were NO photographs or reports shown.
➡️ She did NOT get to testify about the accusations or present her own evidence.
➡️ She did NOT get the hearing she believed she had come there to have.
❌ She did NOT sign a new dangerous-dog JUDGMENT or ORDER...and nothing was given to her by the court, or her lawyer. ❌
But Atlas was going to live.
As she left, Tammi had another question for her 'lawyer'.
👩 Tammi: "What happened to the appeal I filed on November 22?"
👨🦳 Don Feare: “That WAS your appeal.”
Confused and hurt, Tammi went home, but at least she went home to Atlas.
December 4, 2024 does not disappear from this case.
🔴 IT IS GROUND ZERO.🔴
Life went on.
It was relatively quiet.
Until April 20, 2025, 2 days before the last time she saw Atlas.
TODAY IS DAY 508.
#SaveAtlas
ALT Letter from Doug Campbell of Notice of Hearing for Dec 4 -- Notice the date. Why would they send this out AFTER she had signed the Nov 20 notice from Morales???
ALT Notice of Dec 4, 2024 hearing. This is the ONLY documentation that exists in the court records of that day. Read that again.
ALT Nov 22 handwritten appeal that is IN the court record (note the stamp) -- and they later claim that Tammi NEVER APPEALED.
Patrick Richner retweeted
A neighbor called police to help a lost, blind and deaf dog. The officer who arrived shot him dead.
On May 19, 2024, Teddy, a 13-pound Shih Tzu mix, escaped his fenced yard in Sturgeon, Missouri, and wandered into a neighbor’s backyard.
She called police to help locate his owner because the department also handled animal control.
Officer Myron Woodson spent about three minutes trying to catch Teddy with a snare pole.
Then he shot him at close range.
The encounter was recorded on his body camera. The footage showed the small dog posing no threat. The city initially defended Woodson, claiming he believed Teddy might be injured or rabid.
The backlash led to Mayor Kevin Abrahamson’s resignation.
Woodson was suspended and eventually left the department. The turmoil also contributed to the city shutting down its police department and contracting with the county sheriff for policing.
Teddy’s owner, Nicholas Hunter, filed a federal lawsuit seeking more than $1 million.
His lawyers argued that the city had never trained Woodson to use the catch pole or properly handle animal-control calls.
In November 2025, the case ended in a $500,000 settlement. Hunter would receive $282,500, with $217,500 going to his lawyers.
Insurance covered the payout, leaving the city responsible for a $1,000 deductible.
Hunter’s legal team said he was relieved the case was over, but “nothing can ever bring his Teddy back.”
