From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2013: (Actually published on November 20,  2013.)

Obituaries

“I come to bury Caesar,  not to praise him.   The evil men do lives after them.   The good is oft interred with their bones.”   ––William Shakespeare

Patricia Ritz,  67,  is believed to have been eaten by some of the 50-odd wolf hybrids she kept at her rural home near Fordsville in Ohio County,  Kentucky.  Investigating a neighbor’s report that Ritz had not been seen in several days,  Ohio County sheriff’s deputies found only a skull and jawbone believed to be hers.  The wolf hybrids had apparently not been given food or water in some time.  Ohio County Animal Control,  Adopt-A-Husky,  and Roby’s Hybrid Wolf Fund took custody of the wolf hybrids,  29 of whom were later moved by Animal Rescue Corps to a warehouse in Lebanon,  Tennessee that already housed about 100 dogs and two parrots,  according to Brian Wilson of the Nashville Tennessean.  Ritz reportedly was charged with mass neglect of dogs in 1986,  1987,  1991,  1997,  1999,  and 2002,  was convicted five times,  and was not prosecuted in the 1991 case after promising she would not again take dogs into Indiana. Read more

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  October 2013: (Actually published on November 20,  2013.)

Dawn Aubrey-Ward,  43,  hanged herself on May 8,  2013 in her home in Martock,  Somerset,   U.K.,  coroner Tony Williams ruled on October 14,  2013. A Royal SPCA animal welfare officer from 2008 to 2010,  Aubrey-Ward was among the three named sources for allegations published by Nick Craven and Lynne Wallis of The Daily Mail on December 29,  2012 that the RSPCA unnecessarily kills animals and inappropriately pursues prosecutions.  The RSPCA countered that,  “Dawn Aubrey-Ward is a disgruntled former employee who was subject to a disciplinary investigation for alleged theft of animals,”  who “left with matters  still pending.” Read more