As you know, the
"javachickn" livejournal was deleted and purged almost immediately after the news of what she did hit. However, some material from it was saved by an
unlikely source:
**WOLF/MALMUTE PACK WITH PUPPIES** ON DEATH ROW!
***PLEASE REPOST ASAP!!!***
Koda" - female, just had litter, is in danger of euthanasia - FOSTER HOME NEEDED URGENTLY
Our VERY FULL local animal shelter just had to take in 8 wolf dogs from an abuse/backyard breeder case. Because the shelter is so packed full of dogs right now, and wolf & sled dog rescues are not responding to our pleas for placement, these dogs are in immediate danger of being euthanized.
They are located in McKinleyville California, which is 5 hours north of San Francisco, 3 hours west of Redding, 6 hours north west of Sacramento, etc
Note that the location that is given matches up with the address of the shelter she worked at. It's not much, but it is confirmation that she did volunteer at that particular animal shelter.
In other news, I've been poking and prodding around, and I'm beginning to formulate a theory as to why no action was ever taken against Java.
Basically, what Reed did was such a fundamental violation of the trust that the shelter put in it's volunteers that if they acknowledged what she did, it would be a major blow to it's reputation. Not only that, but since the shelter is run by the county sheriff, they would probably have had to answer some very uncomfortable questions if she was ever formally charged.
This is because of the warning signs that were missed/ignored. Five or so years previous, the Humane Society put the word out that a prospective dog owner pushing hard to get a large-breed dog a vasectomy was an obvious warning sign that he or she was trying to acquire a dog to be used for sex. And yet Reed had managed to do just this, from the inside and right under their very noses. If this became widely known, the blame would have been on them for not screening their volunteers properly. It's possible that they might have faced considerable backlash. There is even the possibility, however remote, that the entire operation could have been put in jeopardy.
This was not exactly an acceptable proposition. So they (grudgingly) decided to just let the whole thing blow over. After all, the animal in question was eventually rehomed, which is probably the best course of action they could have hoped for.
A criminal case at this point is impossible. The only actual witness was her boyfriend (he was also the camerman - if this was Washington he'd be in trouble too). We don't have much more than his first name, and he is long gone. Any computers she owned that might have had evidence on them were probably Gutmann-wiped long before the cops were called and are also long gone. Same deal for the camera.
In the two years since this all went down, we haven't really seen any sort of reversion to her old behavior. There's even a non-apology apology on
her FA, carefully and cryptically worded to avoid any admission of guilt. This leaves the question of whether she really quit dogmongling cold turkey still up in the air, as we do not know the status of Dodger, her youngest dog. She made hints on Beastforum that she was planning on "using" him next.
I guess the only thing we can do is hope she's learned some self-control.
