On an 80-acre property in Cumby, Texas, roughly 88 German Shepherds were living in misery at a breeding operation that advertised them as healthy and ready to serve. In December 2025, a video surfaced that exposed the horror behind the kennel's polished online image: a dog tied to a tree and shot multiple times.
When a federal raid swept the property in January 2026, what officers found was staggering. The dogs were crammed into mud-filled pens with nothing but empty, rusty buckets where water should have been. Many were caked in their own feces, their bodies covered in open wounds, severe infections, and parasites.
Veterinarians who examined the animals found them severely underweight, with body condition scores averaging near-emaciated, around 2.6 out of a possible 9. Dog after dog bore scars consistent with abuse, the physical record of suffering written across their bodies. These were animals that should have been thriving, reduced to skin and bone in filth.
All the while, the person running the operation was selling these dogs to families as healthy and service-ready, knowingly passing off sick, starved, and traumatized animals as sound. The dog shot at the tree and the dozens left to rot in the mud were never the happy, healthy shepherds promised in the listings.
Sign now if you agree that what happened to these dogs was wrong, and that whoever did this should never be allowed to keep or breed animals again.