Thurston County, WA – A Thurston County woman is facing animal cruelty charges after she abandoned two dogs in an RV, allowing them to suffer a slow and agonizing death. According to sources, 26-year-old Rachelle Faythe-Nicole Pehl left her German shepherd, Cody, and Husky, Harvey, in the parked RV and the dogs were unable to escape.

The owner of property on the 10400 block of Littlerock Road Southwest found the decaying dogs in the RV on April 22 and called 911. Responding deputies found the deceased dogs laying by one another; the interior of the RV showed signs that the dogs had desperately tried to escape through a window.

A necropsy confirmed that both dogs died from starvation. On April 30, Pehl was charged with two-counts of first-degree animal cruelty.

Pehl had been paying the property owner to park the RV there but stopped paying 18 months ago. At the end of February, after the owner placed a “notice of intent to remove an abandoned vehicle,” he went to Pehl’s place of employment with an offer to house the dogs on another property, but she was “dismissive” of the dogs and claimed that she had rehomed them.

Pehl was released on her own recognizance, with conditions, including abiding by a curfew at her mother’s house.

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