10/08/2026
🚨Chance / Trendy Tails and Training Update🚨
Before sharing this article, we want to make sure everyone understands the horrific circumstances surrounding Chance’s death.
Chance’s cause of death was determined to be a Benadryl overdose, along with severe dehydration and starvation.
On the day FAHR arrived to set a trap for Chance, his lifeless body was already being disposed of.
Moments before handing Chance’s belongings over to a FAHR volunteer, they removed his dead body from his crate, placed him in a trash bag, and disposed of him like garbage.
Chance’s body has never been recovered.
The cruelty this poor dog endured, and the complete disregard for his life even after his death, is absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating.
Chance deserved so much better and so did the other dogs who suffered in silence.
Article courtesy of The Edwardsville Intelligencer:
An affidavit filed in Madison County court lays out the timeline leading up to the arrests in the Glen Carbon animal abuse
case.
According to the affidavit, dated Sept. 15, the Glen Carbon Police Department learned of a situation in the 200 block of Glen Carbon Road. A woman contacted Glen Carbon police on Aug. 11, stating she had boarded her dog at Trendy Tails and Training for the past few months, but her dog had not been returned.
Police later determined that Trendy Tails was operating as an unlicensed business, according to the affidavit.
She advised officers that the "owners of the unlicensed business/resident of the house," Hannah Perry, Melanie Norem and Donna Perry, told the woman that her dog had run away.
The woman went on to state that when she retrieved the dog's cage and other property, "it was filthy and in poor condition with other dogs' loose fur, causing (her) to become concerned for the welfare of the other doas inside the residence."The woman was paying $100 a month" to Hannah and Melanie for the 'boarding' of her dog," according to the affidavit.
Glen Carbon police went to the residence on Aug. 20. Officers observed, among other things, the strong smell of urine and f***s, f***s lining the floor, a "hoarding situation," skinny dogs covered in f***s and urine and multiple dogs in crates. Donna Perry did not allow officers access to the basement, saying it was flooded.
Officers returned with a search warrant Aug. 21.
"During the search warrant of the residence, gruesome and hazardous conditions, as well as extreme animal neglect was located," the affidavit states.
According to the affidavit, officers found 18 living dogs, "all in poor unkempt condition ranging from infections, starvation, fur matting, living in cages piled on top of each other throughout the residence, mainly in the basement, with no food, water and living in their own urine and f***s." Six deceased dogs were found at this time, including some co**ses being kept in cages with living dogs.
According to the affidavit, during the search Donna Perry and Norem admitted the dog whose owner contacted police Aug. 11 was dead.
Officers found another deceased dog while executing a search warrant at a shed on the property Aug. 26. The affidavit described the co**se as "severely decayed."
Officers interviewed people who had previously utilized Trendy Tails to care for their dogs; pet owners stated that upon getting their dogs back, their dogs had infections or were in poor condition.
All three women were arrested Aug. 31. A grand jury returned indictments on Sept. 24, charging Hannah Perry, Donna Perry and Norem each with eight Class 4 felony counts of aggravated cruelty to animals and eight Class A misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals.
Hannah Perry and Norem are in custody pending trial; both have pleaded not guilty. Donna Perry was granted pretrial release. Her next court date is scheduled for Oct. 16.
The Intelligencer has reached out to the public defender's office for comment.”
