Animal advocate faces charges in dead dog case

Comments Thornapple Township, Mich. — A West Michigan animal welfare advocate faces misdemeanor cruelty charges after the bodies of two to three dogs were found at a house she owned that went into foreclosure. The remains of the dogs were discovered last week. A man who bought the home in Barry County's Thornapple Township was cleaning the yard and found the bodies in trash bags near the garage, MLive.com reported Wednesday. "It was really odd to me that these dogs were just kind of disposed of this way," the new homeowner, Kurt Wierenga, said. The home, about 120 miles northwest of Detroit, had been owned by Marcie Tepper, who has worked with the Barry County Animal Shelter for 17 years...