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Subject: Robbie Coy

  • We'll Make Great Pets

    March 30, 2006
  • Red Tape Entangles a Canine-Lovin' Samaritan

    Wikimedia CommonsRed tape makes this puppy sad.Robbie Coy, founder of Homestead's Sabbath Memorial Dog Rescue operation, includes in his adoption contracts a clause stating that the new owners cannot leave the animals leashed outside. So inn November, 2007, when Coy was driving by an adopter's home amd saw a former rescue dog tethered in the yard, he simply stole it back. He was charged with felony burglary for the reclamation, though those charges were dropped. The renegade rescuer's gaine

    July 14, 2009
  • No Good Deed Goes Unlicensed: Dog rescuer gets fined in Southwest Miami-Dade

    July 16, 2009
  • Sabbath Memorial Dog Rescue in Eviction

     This past July, Riptide reported that Homestead's non-profit Sabbath Memorial Dog Rescue could close due to a zoning snafu. Several months before, Miami-Dade Animal Services inspectors had discovered that owner Robbie Coy didn't have a kennel license- and he couldn't get one until he changed the zoning of his property. Problem is, his landlord didn't want to go through the expense of a zoning-change. So yeah, red tape all around. Now the landlord, CJM Investment Group,&

    August 24, 2009