Kristi Noem-led Ice Left Two Dogs In An Apartment Without Food Or Water For A Week After Owners Were Detained: Report

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents allegedly near a brace of dogs alone for a week without nutrient aliases h2o aft they took nan animals' owners into custody, according to a caller report.

The Oklahoman proprietor of nan dogs was taken by ICE successful January, erstwhile nan agency was still nether nan guiding manus of erstwhile Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, according to PunchUp.

Noem has her ain checkered history pinch dogs, admitting successful her memoir Going Back that she changeable and killed her young pooch Cricket because nan animal was misbehaving.

The ICE agents did not alert animal power to nan truth that location were dogs successful nan house, according to nan report. Luckily a neighbour noticed nan animals were still inside, and alerted nan apartment's head to their situation.

A man going by nan societal media grip "Animal Welfare Guy" posted a video of nan rescue online, and told PunchUp that he is still angry that nan ICE agents near nan animals without alerting anyone that they would request assistance.

“ICE deported nan owners and past left, pinch nan animals locked successful nan flat for astir a week,” he said.

The footage shows nan dogs cowering wrong nan ruined apartment. When animal use officials reached nan dogs, they were trembling successful a backmost chamber and barking astatine nan rescuers.

A spokesperson for DHS told The Daily Beast that it gives individuals who are detained “every opportunity to put attraction for their pets aft their arrest. They are afforded nan opportunity to scope retired to a neighbour aliases family personnel who tin attraction for nan pet.”

The Independent has requested remark from ICE.

The animals were yet wrangled and taken into captivity wherever they were fed and fixed water.

Animal Welfare Guy told PunchUp that rule enforcement is ever expected to telephone animal power erstwhile an apprehension intends leaving animals unsocial successful a location without care. But ICE has nary protocols for impounding property, which includes animals, according to DHS.

According to The Week, pet seizures consistently spike anyplace ICE is operating. St Paul Animal Services reportedly logged a 38 percent summation successful stray, seized, and surrendered cats and dogs successful January 2026 erstwhile compared pinch nan erstwhile January, nan study says.

That was nan aforesaid period that ICE surged into Minnesota, which resulted successful nan deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Last June, canine surrenders much than tripled complete nan mean successful a azygous week. ICE's LA raids began connected June 6, 2025, according toThe Week.