{"id":178107,"date":"2026-03-28T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178107\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:51:18","slug":"former-beekmantown-animal-shelter-owner-convicted-of-animal-cruelty-faces-probation-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178107\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Beekmantown animal shelter owner convicted of animal cruelty faces probation violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; The former owner of a New York animal shelter where upwards of 50 dogs were seized in 2024 was arrested this week for allegedly violating her probation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hilary Davis, 59, was convicted last year of torturing animals and forgery. She owned \u201cA Canine Gem\u201d in Beekmantown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Davis took a plea agreement in January 2025 and avoided jail time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She was arrested earlier this week for allegedly having 17 dogs in her care, a violation of her probation. She also allegedly crossed state lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; The former owner of a New York animal shelter where upwards of 50 dogs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6343,6936,72019,6530,72018,9,11,10,49,51,50,1631],"class_list":["post-178107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-beekmantown","tag-canine-gem","tag-dogs","tag-hilary-davis","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-wcax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}