
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, July 1, 1990                   TAG: 9007010193
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LEESBURG                                LENGTH: Short

JUDGE ORDERS DOGS SEIZED

About 40 dogs kept on a Loudoun County farm will be seized July 16 under a Circuit Court judge's order involving a private animal shelter.

County officials have been trying to close the shelter, run by Cindy Becker, since 1988 because of complaints from neighbors about noise and odors.

Becker keeps stray dogs that might otherwise be put to death in the county animal shelter. She and her attorney, David Moyes, said they fear the older animals will be killed if they are seized by county animal wardens because no one will want to adopt them.

But Loudoun officials said Becker will be given a chance to reclaim the animals if she can find a licensed kennel to take them in and pays the county's expenses in seizing and boarding the dogs - about $400 a day.

In December 1988, the Board of Supervisors rejected a kennel permit for Becker's converted horse barn near Virginia 727. The board said the facility did not meet standards.

by CNB