Puppies found in pillowcase in Loxahatchee were stolen
Animal Care and Control confifirms 4 more still missing.
LOXAHATCHEE — The six puppies found in a tied-up pillowcase in Loxahatchee on Tuesday were just a few of the 10 puppies stolen from a local breeder, Palm Beach Count y Animal Care and Control said.
On Tuesday morning, an individu al c alled Animal Care and Control saying they found six puppies left on a dirt road along 50th Street, near Sycamore Drive. One of the puppies died, offifficials said. Animal Care and Control took in the fifive remaining puppies, who were housed in a plastic bin, complete with towels and a heater.
The plan was to take the puppies to Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League, where they would be placed in foster care and eventually put up for adoption.
A licensed hobby breeder contacted Animal Care and Control week and said the six puppies that were found — along with four more — were stolen from a Loxahatchee home.
The dogs are Catahoula mixes, Animal Care and Control said.
Animal Care and Control Director Dianne Sauve said the unidentified breeder provided photos and videos to confifirm the puppies belonged to them. Sauve said the dogs were reunited with their owner on Friday.
Anyone with information about the four missing puppies or the person who took the puppies is asked to contact Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control at 561233-1200 or Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach Count y at
458- 8477).
When Boca Raton attorney Paul Kunz learned in 2015 that the size of his son’s kindergarten class exceeded the state’s constitutional limits, he turned to the courts for a fifix.
T h e l a w s u i t h e f i l e d appeared to be the fifirst of its kind — a frontal assault on the state’s yearslong effffffffffffort to narrow the impact of the state constitution’s class- size limits, which were approved by voters in 2002. Educators across Florida took heed.
But nearly 1½ years later, the lawsuit against the Palm Beach County School Board is languishing in state court, where a circuit judge has taken more than a year to rule on a motion that would either dismiss the case out- right or let it move forward.
The delay has held offff a day of reckoning in what was already likely to be years of appeals before the case is fifinally resolved, with potentially broad ramifications for Florida’s public schools.
Kunz, whose son started kindergarten in August 2015, had noticed that his son’s class had 21 students. That was odd, he thought, since the Florida Constitution calls for all “core” K-3 classes to have no more than 18.
But since the constitutional amendment took effffffffffffect, state legislators have carved out several exemptions to the class-size limits, including for college-level courses and arts classes.
More recently, legislators in 2013 c reated a special waiver for so-called “schools of choice,” a designation that all public schools in Palm Beach County now claim, including Addison Mizner Elementary in Boca Raton, which Kunz’s son attends.