Most residents would be surprised to learn the St. Charles Parish Animal Shelter is currently one of the only local government-funded animal shelters in the state run by a veterinarian, giving St. Charles Parish several advantages most other parishes do not have.
With a current state-wide shortage of veterinarians, other animal shelters throughout the state have struggled to recruit qualified vets, making the St. Charles Parish Animal Shelter one of the state’s better staffed shelters.
“For example, Lafayette [Parish] has been looking for a vet for over a year,” Dr. Jena Troxler, St. Charles Parish Animal Shelter Supervisor, said. “It’s definitely a unique situation and has helped our pets get out quicker.”
Running her department since 2007, Troxler’s background as a local veterinarian has benefitted St. Charles Parish in a number of ways, from allowing the parish’s budget to stretch further since most veterinarian services don’t have to be outsourced, to using her medical training for find new and efficient ways to improve how animals are treated and its shelter is run.
The parish’s animal shelter currently has not only its own shelter as an adoption center but has also partnered with Petco with four additional offsite adoption centers that regularly adopt out St. Charles Parish cats throughout the New Orleans region.
“That’s a huge help; they adopt out about 100 cats for us every six months,” Dr. Troxler said.
St. Charles Parish currently has an overpopulation problem with domesticated animals, Dr. Troxler explained, mostly due to St. Charles Parish pet owners having a relatively low rate of spaying and neutering with their pets.
“We take in about 1,500 pets a year, and we’re only a population of about 52,000,” Dr. Troxler commented on the parish’s current pet overpopulation issue. “We don’t have enough homes here to absorb all the healthy, adoptable animals.”
To help address the pet overpopulation issue, which is largely attributable to cats, St. Charles Parish Animal shelter currently offers free cat spay and neuter services, microchip for pet cat identification purposes and free vaccines for any cat owner that brings in their pet for spay or neuter help. The cost to get all those services at a local veterinarian clinic is typically several hundred dollars, performed at no cost for parish residents.
In addition to those services, the parish also works to adopt out as many pets as it can locally through its shelter and offsite partners. For the last six years the shelter has gone even further, working with national nonprofit organizations like Greater Good Charities to absorb additional pets for adoption in other states.
“Since 2017 we have flown pets nationally to our adoption partners,” Dr. Troxler said. “Each private flight costs about $25,000, and that is all donation-based; our parish doesn’t pay anything.”
The private flights have allowed St. Charles Parish to find homes out of state for the excess number of pets it can’t adopt out due to just sheer volume of pets it takes in.
Greater Good Charities initially wasn’t working with almost any Louisiana area animal shelters, but once Troxler heard of their organization and this method of adoption, she was persistent in changing their minds. She eventually convinced the group St. Charles Parish’s local shelter had proper protocols in place for humane treatment of its adoption animals. Her persistence has paid off, allowing St. Charles Parish to find numerous new homes for dogs and cats well outside of the local area.
“It makes a huge difference,” Dr. Troxler said. “We transfer hundreds of cats and dogs a year.”
The organization has also helped with hurricane evacuation of adoptable pets as well, relieving a huge burden on the animals and the staff that care from them.
Once Troxler’s staff had developed a good working relationship with Greater Good Charities, she helped mentor other coastal parish animal shelters to develop protocols and procedures that would help them them to qualify for the same services.
“The goal was to get our coastal parish shelters – Jefferson, Orleans, Lafayette – everyone on the coast – to get all of us on the same page with basic medical care so that they could possibly participate and could possibly have outlets…and wouldn’t struggle as much with evacuations.”
A major success story from this mentor program was a local Northshore-based parish that saw significant improvement and benefitted with numerous new resources.
“One of those groups that really went from an extremely high euthanasia rate to participation was Tangipahoa Animal Shelter,” Troxler mentioned. “They ended up with a giant grant and support system from a national group that provided their shelter with buildings, a vet –everything that would have taken 10 years to build.”
THE RETAIL RESCUE SCAM
PET TRAFFICKER JENNA TROXLER
PETS FOR RESALE FOR PENNSYLVANIA DELAWARE MEGA AUCTIONS
LOUISIANA IS A STATE OUT OF STATE NONPROFITS USE TO SOURCE PUREBRED PETS & PETS USED TO FILL SHIPMENTS.
These Shipments Of Pets Deceive Donors into believing pets are being “Rescued”
Millions are Raised by out of state Pet Traffickers operating under the auspices of “Rescue”
Animal control at St Charles Parish tries to convince the donors New Jersey and Atlanta don’t have the same overpopulation problems as Louisiana and it’s absolutely untrue.
New Jersey and Atlanta killed hundreds of of pets every day the same as Louisiana.
This is a typical pet scam. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWiqTFsbZZOndL-f2yuo3A0FQlSozwX6im
Purebreds are cherry picked by the high kill shelters and sold.
The nonprofits raise money on the shipments, deceiving donors into believing pets being shipped to other states are going to families waiting to adopt them.
The expensive purebreds, stolen from families and St Charles Parish sell for several hundred dollars.
Large pets from Louisiana are euthanized in Atlanta and New Jersey
THE RETAIL RESCUE SCAM
Stolen Pets are Cherry picked and sent to the high kill, shelter and sold.
Pets not sold will be killed.
ALL OF YOU HAVE BEEN SCAMMED $$$
Jenna Troxler and Lisa La Fontaine are running a
PET SCAM
Donations brought in by the scam are obtained under fraudulent pretenses
HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE IS AN EXTREMELY HIGH KILL SHELTER
https://njanimalobserver.com/2021/12/30/humane-rescue-alliances-horrible-high-kill-shelter/
PETS ARE SITTING ROTTING AWAY IN THE D.C. SHELTER
No, they will not be in homes in a matter of (3) Days this is a lie. This is a HIGH KILL shelter!
Deceptive Donor Practices
The pets are used to raise millions of dollars in donations fraudulently.
The expensive purebred are Cherry Picked & Sold
Humane Rescue Alliance is one of the HIGHEST KILL SHELTERS in DC
We all know
Director Lisa La Fontaine very well
She is a Dog killer and also runs the Highest KILL SHELTER in New Jersey – St Huberts
Animal Shelter
Pets not sold WILL be KILLED
Lisa La Fontaine was Recently
Exposed for Killing Pets
Protesters can be seen outside the shelter.
The black families seem to suffer the brunt of harassment.
This is not the only incident of Black families that has been documented.
There are others that will speak of the same harassment.
St Charles Parish residents are Terrified of Troxler and her friends in law enforcement officers of the parish.
The lady states here she has a black husband and makes it clear that is why she will not come forward.
She speaks of horrific stories that have happened to her family after they tried to come forward in the past.
St Charles residents will speak to
MEDIA in person, but they wish to have their faces blacked out.
If the pet is purebred the pet will be shipped out by Jenna Troxler and Ric Browde they will claim the pet was “put to sleep”
If The persons pet is a large dog they will use those dogs to fill the shipments giving the perception that they are saving animals, nothing could be further from the truth.
Pets are shipped to Tri-County Maryland animal control where they are disposed of by Ric Browde Wings Of Rescue.
Euthanasia records show thousands of pets were killed there that were shipped by Ric WOR, Matt Berkshadker ASPCA And Wayne Pacelle and Kitty Block HSUS
St. Charles Parish Jenna Troxler traffics In stolen Pets with Ric Browde (WOR) Wings of Rescue.
Scores of st. Charles parish residents wage the same complaints: a $400-$1800 charge will be paid or pets will be shipped out or killed.
Even after people have fixed their fences they make the same complaints “somebody is taking the pin out of the fence and letting our dogs back out”
Families of pets then receive a notice stating your dogs will be killed or shipped out if do not receive the fees.
The fees are exorbitant
We received another call today, a friend of a lady in SCP court was hysterical She was able to pay the fee for one dog but not the other two.
The woman’s house was nearly destroyed by the hurricane when her husband left her. She has no children, only her dogs. She paid $1800 to get one dog back she cannot afford to pay for the other two dogs but she is trying to scrape the money up.
There are (3) Facebook pages exposing St Charles Parish animal control officer Jenna Troxler
Many pets have been killed that were not vicious.
It’s also clearly evident that purebred small dogs are being sourced from St Charles Parish. Pictures below show specifically small purebred dogs.
Those dogs are shipped up north and sold.
This is an illegal pet trafficking ring.