06/05/2026
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Please Read. This is how Animal Abuse is handled in Sonoma and Humboldt Counties!
No police for you! (NPFU hereafter) If you discover an animal cruelty factory warehouse on your way to work today, just keep driving there is no point in reporting it. Gas is expensive. Life is short. Head desking, gives you brain damage. Just drive.
“But there are 114 NBAS dogs inside, starving and standing in three inches of p**p! Hello, 911- I need to report an emergency…the top animal control officer, Mark Scott, just left a building full of dogs half dead…”
“We’ll send the police.”
After two hours, the place is certified by officers as kinda messy/‘lil bit stinky but otherwise TOTALLY FINE! Love, Lake County Sheriff, Clearlake Police, Petaluma PD, Cloverdale PD, Sebastopol, Windsor, CA Atty General’s office and the FBI and all DA’s around the globe.
In Humboldt County, if you’re in your house and see Shannon Miranda drive down your street with a semi truck of dog carcasses sporting a sombrero made out of $100 bills—-you will get NPFU. For 30 years straight.
“HELP! I just witnessed felony animal abuse at Miranda’s Rescue!”
“Please hold, eeerm, we think you may be crazy, and possibly menstruating, so we’ll come out and look around but chances are, Shannon is awesome.”
Is it our rescue outfits? Maybe I smell bad. Parvo triage will do that to a person. Our entire community, from Fortuna to Palm Springs crisscrossing California- NPFU. Oh the cops show up- make a report, takes years, goes nowhere, chief says “We love animals” and pats you on the head. Case dismissed! Thanks for playing along.
The police exist to fight REAL crime. Not deal with stupid animals or annoying fraud schemes impacting whole counties! Arresting city/county good ol’ boys for torturing vulnerable shelter pets takes time!
Today, Mark Scott is a free man. 114 dog felonies later, the City of Petaluma and her police- do not care, it’s not their problem and as long as you have a government contract, you are free to felony.
Today, Shannon Miranda is free. A video exists of him dumping hay and dogs. Dogs, that were at Miranda’s for 11 days. The stinging, outrageous betrayal: the crime- is on film. Shannon’s got no worries, it appears.
Animal cruelty is a predictive crime. I’ve never worked a serious dog bite case that stood alone. There was always violence, abuse, drugs, present elsewhere in the family. NBAS and Miranda’s victimized entire regions of California- and the animals within it. Crime everywhere, arrests nowhere.
Vomitorious injustice like this- hard to take. Law enforcement abyss, extra hard. Animals killed and abused by psychopath scammers, impossible to stand. Our rescues and shelters robbed of resources, our rescue dogs exploited and murdered, donations laundered and squandered- intolerable. And yet, NPFU.
Get your brain right: Arguing that investigations take time, is figuring 8 years on NBAS and 28 years on Miranda’s, is insufficient.
I love the police, I love law enforcement, I honor them, I appreciate them, their dogs are dreamy. I just wish they’d feel the same way about us, our dogs are dreamy too. Like the homeless wandering creatures we save, we are alone in this world. The sin of it all~breathtaking.
Consolation prize: with revenue streams dried up, both scams are in ruins, gravy train crapped out, and the Tiger Kings have bad credit.
Author: Valerie Talcott Fausone
“Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” -Bob Marley
