Our Loser Of The Week award goes to Ron Artest, basketball player for the Sacramento Kings. Ron Artests dogs have spent a total of 77 nights at the pound because of neglect and starvation of his dogs. His Great Dane was nothing but a bag of bones when the dog was taken to the pound.
Ron Artest lives in a multi million dollar mansion, yet he allows his dogs to starve and let his dogs spend over 2 1/2 months in the dog pound! What kind of low life scum bag does something like that to innocent animals?
There is absolutely no justification for someone that wealthy to allow their pets to starve and be at the dog pound so consistently.
Why is Ron Artest not sitting in jail right now?? He certainly deserves to be. He deserves the same treatment he gave his dogs.
Below, please see what the Associated Press had to say about Ron Artest:
"LOOMIS, Calif. -- Dogs owned by Sacramento Kings forward Ron Artest have spent a total of 77 nights at the pound since July because of poor care by their owner, costing the NBA star $1,942 in boarding and impound fees, county records show.
Placer County animal control officers have gone to Artest's five-acre estate seven times in that period in response to callers' complaints about dogs being loose or not being fed.
Allan Frumkin, president of the Sierra Ridge Estates Homeowners Association at the gated community where Artest lives in Loomis, about 25 miles northeast of Sacramento, said some neighbors stepped in and cared for the dogs themselves.
"It became general knowledge that he wasn't taking good care of his dogs," said Frumkin. "One neighbor fed them and bought a watering machine for them."
The latest incident came last Sunday, when animal control officers took Artest's Great Dane, Socks, saying the animal wasn't being fed.
"This dog was a rack of bones," said Rosemary Frieborn, president of Friends of Placer County Animal Shelter.
In an e-mail to The Sacramento Bee, Artest said he hopes to get Socks back and has hired a new caretaker for the dogs. He blamed Socks' condition on the fact that another dog, an American bulldog, "dominated all the food."
He said the situation "got out of hand" when he was gone for a seven-day Kings road trip.
"Then we got back and got a handle on it. I have a new professional doggy watcher from out of state that will help me train my dogs better," he wrote. "I'm horrible at that.
"I love my dogs and think they should be able to live [as] freely as possible," he wrote.
Artest has had as many as seven dogs on his property, but at least two have been killed and others have been sent to live in Indiana, he told the newspaper.
Artest's publicist, Heidi Buech, declined to comment to The Associated Press.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press"
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Now, can you think of a better or more deserving person than Ron Artest to be our Loser Of The Week?
Please let us know how you feel about this issue and what action you think should be taken against Ron Artest.
Cruelty to Animals laws, fees, punishment, etc. needs to be addressed and stepped up. It is a shame to think of how many innocent creatures are tortured, starved, beaten, and otherwise abused at the hands of human beings.
We as people are on this earth to take care of Gods creatures. Ashamedly, we've done a pretty poor job of it.
Ron Artest, YOU are our Loser Of The Week with good reason!!
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