Berkeley County Man Charged With Ill-Treatment of Animals
The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest after a welfare check led to an ill-treatment of animals investigation. Deputies arrested 35-year-old Anthony L. Jamison and charged him with two counts of Ill-Treatment of Animals.
On September 14, Berkeley County Animal Control received a call for service from a concerned citizen regarding a welfare check on dogs at a residence on Frazier Hill Drive in the Moncks Corner area of Berkeley County. The Animal Control Deputy located two dogs changed up at the residence. One dog was chained up to a tree in front of the residence and the second dog was chained up at the side of the residence. One dog had shelter and dirty water and the other dog only had dirty water, but neither of the dogs had food. The dog that was chained up in front of the residence, Rosie, was extremely emaciated and in very poor health. The dog that was chained up at the side of the residence, Violet, was also emaciated and in poor health. Violet also had an embedded collar.
Due to the dog’s living condition and their health, the Berkeley County Animal Control took the dogs into Emergency Protective Custody and notified Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division, who took over the case. Through the investigation and prior call history, Jamison was identified as the owner of the dogs. Detectives then obtained two arrest warrants for Jamison for Ill-Treatment of Animals.
On September 21, 2020, Anthony Jamison surrendered himself to the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office at the Hill-Finklea Detention Center and is currently awaiting a bond hearing.
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UPDATE ON ROSIE
Rosie Update 9/28:
After Rosie's vet visit last week a few things came back that we are concerned about. Rosie has 3 masses that we can visibly see. We did fine needle aspirations on these masses. Out of the 3, 2 came back as "mast cell tumors" and 1 came back as undetermined. Yes, this means Rosie has cancer. We are hoping that the cancer is contained just within these masses and has not spread elsewhere in her body. We also learned that she is also still anemic, which should have started to subside by now. This could mean there is an issue elsewhere, such as a mass internally that we are not seeing. However, we are praying this is not the case. Since Rosie was left unvetted for an undetermined amount of time we do not know how long these outside masses have been growing and the time frame they have been given to possibly metastasize to different areas of her body. Typically, if caught early and removed with good margins mast cell tumors are treatable and curable.
Rosie will be taking another field trip to VSC in Summerville to visit with the oncology department to hopefully have our questions answered. Please pray for positive, treatable results!
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Rosie being loved in her foster home.
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