PIKEVILLE, TN (WDEF) – “He’s got a lot of trust issues because you do when someone shoots you in the face,” says Judy LaGrone who is President and Treasurer for Maringa Animal Shelter.
Copper is one of 50 animals being loved back to health after severe abuse and neglect at the Maringa Animal Sanctuary in Pikeville, Tennessee.
Founded in 2018 by Judy and Glenn LaGrone on an idyllic piece of land overlooking a rural valley, some of the animals also have terminal diseases which javascript:noop();make them unadoptable.
“We wanted to have a sanctuary for unadoptable animals because of their health, because of their age, because of their behavior, people that didn’t want these kinds of animals in their homes, because Bledsoe doesn’t have an animal shelter. Bledsoe doesn’t have an animal control officer. Bledsoe doesn’t have another organization that really will do what we do, so we had to rescue,” says LaGrone.