Gilbert dog kennel kept accepting pets after others perished, according to pet owner. 
 
 Snow Aubel's dogs, Cheyenne (gray, upper left) and Yepa (brown, middle), in a photo taken by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office on June 21. (Photo: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office) 
 
 The Gilbert dog kennel where 20 dogs perished last weekend continued to accept other pets into their care after the other pets had died, according to a woman who left her dogs at the facility hours before Maricopa County deputies responded to the kennel. 
 
 Snow Aubel, 33, said she phoned the Green Acre Dog Boarding facility to confirm her pets' drop-off time at about 10 a.m. Saturday morning and told the facility's owner, Todd Hughes, she could be there within the hour. That was no problem, he said, and nothing seemed amiss at the facility when she arrived on schedule. 
 
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 About two hours later, deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office would swarm the property, transporting blanketed, dead dogs in wheelbarrow gurneys. They are said to have been dead since late Thursday night or early Friday morning. 
 
 "He never said anything about what was going on," Aubel said of Hughes. "He just took my dogs." 
 
 The kennel's owners did not respond to request for comment at their home and over the phone on Thursday. 
 
 In total, 20 of the 28 dogs the Sheriff's Office found at the facility perished. Aubel's were alive. 
 
 Her 7-year-old Weimaraner, Cheyenne, and 6-year-old Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Yepa, would remain at the facility until Sunday afternoon, when a representative from Rover, the canine-booking site Aubel used to make the reservation, called to say they would be finding the dogs' accommodations elsewhere. 
 
 Aubel, who is a relative of an azcentral.com employee, said she was never contacted by the owners or the Sheriff's Office, and was unaware of the situation until Rover relayed the news. 
 
 Sheriff Joe Arpaio said deputies did not take custody of the living dogs away from the facility because it was, and is still, unknown whether a crime had occurred. 
 
 "We haven't proven any cruelty," he said. "Usually if we arrest people on cruelty we put [the dogs] in our air-conditioned jail, but we haven't proven anything." 
 
 Aubel said Cheyenne and Yepa seemed at ease just before she left — Cheyenne darted off to chase a goose and Yepa chewed on some grass. Later she would see photos online of her two animals, alive with at least five others, in small, tiled room. 
 
 Other photos, released by the Sheriff's Office but deemed too graphic to be published by many media outlets, show the crammed carcasses of several other dogs, stored in a shed. 
 
 Workers told investigators that the dogs were last checked on Thursday night at about 11 p.m., and that by 5:30 a.m. Friday, a large number were discovered dead. Others were on the brink of death. 
 
 Sheriff's Office officials initially called the deaths a "tragic accident" that occurred after one of the dogs chewed through a power cord attached to an air-conditioning unit. The dogs died of heat exhaustion, they said. 
 
 But Arpaio on Monday acknowledged that the designation may have been premature, and promised a thorough investigation. 
 
 In particular, Arpaio said the owners' timeline didn't add up. 
 
 "How can you be healthy at 11 o'clock and dead at 5:30 in the morning? I think that's the key element," he said. 
 
 Aubel, who had visited the facility two months prior to her vacation, said she saw no red flags Saturday morning, and that everyone was acting normal. 
 
 Looking back, she said, it did occur to her that she didn't see one of the owners' dogs like she did last time. When she checked on the kennel before, she saw a yellow lab and a black lab. On Saturday, she only spotted the owner's black lab and a wolf hybrid. 
 
 Aubel said Hughes did mention to her that his family had just returned from vacation, but did not elaborate. 
 
 Sheriff's Office spokesman Chris Hegstrom said later that the owners flew back home Friday night, after hearing the news. 
 
 After the initial drop-off, Aubel realized she left her sunglasses there and called back. When she returned to the facility to pick them up, one of the owners' daughters greeted her with them in the front yard rather than letting Aubel come back inside. 
 
 "What really makes me upset is when I was there, the poor dogs that had passed away were right underneath my nose, and I didn't even know it," she said. "We would have postponed my vacation. They should not have accepted any more dogs." 
 
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 PHOENIX -- New allegations are coming out against the dog boarding business where 20 dogs died last week. 
 
 
 
 Valley resident Gabby Ugartte told 3TV that in the weeks before the dog tragedy struck, her mother took the family dog to Green Acre to be boarded while they vacationed in Hawaii. But when she picked up Shadow, the dog looked much different. 
 
 
 
 “My mom went to pick him up and that's when she saw his leg was swollen… two to three times [the size] his leg is actually supposed to be,” said Ugartte. 
 
 
 
 In addition to the cut and swollen paw, Shadow was covered in paint and had fur missing all over his body. Shadow's family rushed him to the vet. 
 
 
 
 “The vet said someone had either been tearing at his fur or it could have possibly been some chemical burns if they were trying to get the paint off of him. He also had a temperature of 106 degrees,” Ugartte said. 
 
 
 
 According to the American Kennel Club, normal body temperature for a dog ranges between 100 and 102.5 degrees Fahrenheit. 
 
 
 
 Ugartte’s family was furious and asked Green Acre for a refund. 
 
 
 
 “They said, ‘No, we feel like we earned that boarding,”’ said Ugartte. 
 
 
 
 Shadow's family went to Yelp to post their bad experience. 
 
 
 
 Green Acre didn't return calls from 3TV asking about Shadow. 
 
 
 
 Green Acre owner, MaLeisa Hughes, did respond to the Yelp post admitting that Shadow got into some paint. However, Hughes said in her post that Shadow’s family tried to 'extort' them after being told the boarding fee would not be refunded. Her post also accused Shadow of attacking his Green Acre caretakers daily -- news to Shadow's family. 
 
 
 
 “Our dog has never been a vicious dog. My little sister has Down syndrome and he's been great to her his entire life. So it was just shocking to hear [accusations of vicious behavior],” said Ugartte. 
 
 
 
 Ugartte said her family now just wants people to know the full story of what's been going on at Green Acre. 
 
 
 
 “What happened over the past couple days isn't just a one time negligence type thing. It's happened before,” said Ugartte. 
 
 
 
 Ugartte said her family is considering legal action against Green Acre. ||||| FOX 10 has obtained hidden camera footage as a person claimed a dog from the Green Acres boarding house. 
 
 
 
 For much of the video, you can only hear the owners of Green Acres talk about the deaths. 
 
 
 
 "Can you imagine being responsible for all these deaths? It is horrifying, we have ran it over in our minds like 1000 times. There is nothing we could have done to prevent this. We operated the same way we operated the thousands of times we have done this," said the voice of Meliesa Hughes.Inside the home the people claiming dogs asked many questions including some about the relatives who were supposed to be watching over the dogs while the owners of the boarding house were out of town."They didn't know what to do, so we told them to sit tight till we got here, you know what, how do you prepare yourself for something like this," said Hughes"We got the sheriff involved, we cooperated fully, if you guys know anything about Joe Arpaio hs is an animal proponent, and they investigated us throughly and didn't press charges, it was an accident," she said.Actually, it was the dog owners who first called MCSO. The owners were also asked why they told some people their pets had run away."There is nothing in life that could have prepared us for this, so my husband panicked and made a bad decision, we did have one that ran off, that is true," said Hughes."We just want to get the dog and leave, are you kidding me?, What is wrong with people? What is wrong with you? Like what is wrong with you? Did you not see what happened here today," she said.At the point the video ended you heard her mention that one of the dogs escaped. That dog is believed to be a Belgian malinois named Valor.Volunteers have been searching for Valor over the past few days. Sheriff Joe Arpaio said that MCSO sent a helicopter up to help in the search. There are also three mounted posse members and two deputies searching near the boarding facility."Some people may criticize me for going to these lengths to find this dog. But after what this community has been through with this awful situation at the boarding facility, if we can find one canine survivor, we'll all feel a lot better," said Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Arpaio admits there is no proof that Valor escaped, they are basing this on the word of the boarding facility owners. ||||| Investigation into Gilbert dog deaths, 911 calls released Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 7:29 PM EDT Updated: Thursday, June 26, 2014 12:44 AM EDT Posted:Updated: 
 
 Concern and confusion, that's what 911 calls revealed from people who left their dogs at a Gilbert boarding facility. 
 
 
 
 20 of the dogs died this weekend when caretakers say a dog chewed through an electrical cord which powered the air conditioning. 
 
 
 
 "I don't think you understand this, you idiot, how could you do this? All you have to do was watch a dog, you killed multiple dogs," said a caller. 
 
 
 
 Tense and emotional 911 calls were made outside of the Gilbert boarding house when many owners first discovered their dogs had died. 
 
 
 
 "I am trying to get my dogs now, and he won't give them to me," said another caller. 
 
 
 
 Other owners who were told their pets had run away also called in looking for help, "I was just curious if you had happened to run across or if someone called in a bunch of dogs missing," said a caller. 
 
 
 
 Meleisa Hughes explained her husbands lie about the dogs running away. "He panics, he told a lie, and when asked by the sheriff department he immediately corrected his mistake." 
 
 
 
 "If anyone of you has never told a lie in your entire life feel free to judge him on that," she said. 
 
 
 
 Jesus Cabrales lost his dog Sonny, but unlike many of the other dog owners who were first told about the deaths on Saturday he got a voicemail on Friday morning. 
 
 
 
 "Hey Jesus, this is Todd with Green Acre's, I need to talk to you as soon as you can," said Cabrales. 
 
 
 
 After Friday came the two talked. 
 
 
 
 "I'm sorry Jesus I have got some bad news, I think either your dog, or my dog chewed through the drywall, and one of them bit the wire which cut off the a/c, so they didn't have air all night, and they died of heat exhaustion," recalled Cabrales. 
 
 
 
 That Friday night at the Green Acre facility Jesus demanded to see where the accident happened. He never saw the room in the MCSO photos where investigators say the dogs were being kept. 
 
 
 
 "I just tell him straight up, are you lying to me, tell me the truth, what really happened? And he said that is what happened, and I'm sorry, that is what happened," he said. 
 
 
 
 Sonny also had wounds on his legs and paws, how and when those happened isn't clear.
– Nothing seemed amiss when Snow Aubel dropped her two dogs off at a Gilbert, Ariz., kennel last Saturday morning. Just two hours later, however, police swarmed Green Acre, removing numerous dogs thought to have died sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning. In total, 20 of the 28 dogs found at the kennel were dead, and though the sheriff's office initially described the deaths as "tragic accident" (it explained a dog chewed through an air-conditioning unit cord), it later said that designation was premature, the Arizona Republic reports. "How can you be healthy at 11 o'clock and dead at 5:30 in the morning? I think that's the key element," a sheriff said Monday. As for Aubel, she says owner Todd Hughes "never said anything about what was going on." Though her dogs were fine, others weren't so lucky. One owner who lost his dog tells Fox 10 the animal had wounds on his legs and paws. A family has since come forward to say they picked up their dog from the kennel weeks earlier to find he had a cut and swollen paw, was covered in paint, and had fur missing, AZFamily reports. As for the owners' initial story that the dogs ran away, owner Meliesa Hughes is heard on a hidden video acquired by Fox 10 explaining, "my husband panicked and made a bad decision, we did have one that ran off, that is true." The sheriff notes a helicopter has been searching for the missing dog, though there's no proof the dog did indeed escape.