Two Lower Allen Township residents had their preliminary hearing Thursday following charges filed in March. Brian Geyer, 45, and Kelly Rae Keefer, 30, have been charged with animal cruelty by the Lower Allen Township Police Department. Around 4:34 a.
m. on March 13, police were dispatched to a dog barking complaint in the 2000 block of Wentworth Drive. While investigating the source of the noise, which originated from a backyard shed, officers made contact with Geyer and Keefer.
Lower Allen Township police said that they found the following inside the shed: Officers were met with an “overwhelming odor of feces and urine and airborne debris and dust”. Eight golden retriever puppies that were a few weeks old were found in a large black crate, suspended on a homemade wooden platform, about 3 feet off the floor. Under the crate were two large storage totes full of urine and feces, which appeared to have never been emptied.
Additionally, waste covered the bars of the crate as well. Inside the cage was an empty food bowl and water that looked old and contaminated by feces. Old piles of food and feces on the floor appeared moldy-looking.
Next to the puppies, suspended in an “identically-fashioned kennel situation”, was an adolescent puppy, approximately 15 pounds or so, also with an empty food bowl and cloudy water. On the floor on the other side of the shed were two large crates with adult dogs. One had only one upside-down bowl that appeared empty, with no access to water o.