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Wilma Jones forfeits animals
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Saying she is financially unable to pay nearly $100,000 an animal protection agency wants for upkeep of 124 dogs seized from her property, Wilma Jones waived her ownership rights Tuesday to all but four dogs and five birds.“It feels like someone is taking my baby out of my arms,” Jones told Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley on Tuesday morning, saying there’s no way she can pay the $93,783 bill Animal Rescue Corp says it needs for upkeep of the animals thus far. “My dogs were my family. No one could love a dog more than me.”Her testimony came as Judge Stanley heard a motion to force Jones to put up a bond to pay for the continued housing of 124 dogs being held by Animal Rescue Corp in Nashville.