Illinois Dog Collector

I just received this message with permission to post anywhere and everywhere. We are going to volunteer, though we are already above our community limit for dogs so cannot foster any of these. If anyone would like, I have contact information.
Deb

"This is Beth R writing regarding a very serious
atrocity that has occurred in our state and in our
little German Shepherd community. A mentally ill woman
was served a warrant on Dec 16th and Dec 17th regarding
the removal of animals from her property. The first
wave consisted of about 90 dogs and over 70 of them
were purebred GSD's. Last night at 11pm I received a
phone call from my colleague that had just finished
cataloging the final pull from the womans house. 160
young GSD's , nursing mothers, pups, and just a small
handful were other breeds. The GSD community is
shocked. I am crying and shaking as I write you,
because we worked so hard yesterday to pull just the
first 22 out of the shelter and get them into rescue.
Then as we were going to bed feeling pretty good, I
received this phone call. The holidays make finding
kennel space impossible.

We are begging, we never beg, but we are on our knees
to former adopters, contributors, anyone who loves
German Shepherds to please help this huge rescue
effort. The shelter cannot coordinate the rescues, so
it is a team effort consists of Northern IL GSD
Rescue, their founder and President is logging and
cataloging the dogs, Chicagoland GSD Rescue is digging
up a couple spaces and on the phone, Central Illinois
GSD Rescue is contacting nationally and coordinating
transport, foster care, and will also be pulling some
of these angels.

They are everywhere at the shelter. They are in cages,
kennels, tied to the walls, and though they were eating
dirt, had no food, are close to starvation, they just
looked at us and wagged their tails. It is absolutely
killing us to see this."
Here is a link to the rescue website.
http://www.gsdhaven.org