FORTUNA – Attorneys for Humboldt County advocate Jennifer Raymond filed a complaint last week with the California Attorney General’s Office, asking the state to dissolve Miranda’s Rescue for Large & Small Animals and appoint a receiver to take custody of the animals still on its Fortuna property.
The filing, submitted to the Attorney General’s Registry of Charitable Trusts by the firm Advancing Law for Animals, asks the state to remove the remaining animals from the Sandy Prairie Road property, to bar founder Shannon Miranda from ever running a California nonprofit again, and to force an accounting of the organization’s finances. It also asks the Attorney General to make sure Miranda isn’t hiding or selling off assets while the case moves forward.
The complaint says Raymond is “gravely concerned for the remaining approximately 40 dogs in Mr. Miranda’s custody, as well as the unknown numbers of cats, equines, and birds,” and argues Miranda’s conduct amounts to “persistent, self-dealing mismanagement of charitable assets.”
The complaint draws on public records Raymond gathered from shelters statewide, which she says show more than 2,100 dogs were transferred to Miranda’s Rescue between 2020 and 2025, with per-animal fees ranging from $400 to $1,500 and, in at least one case, $5,000. It also references two Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office search warrants this year that recovered a combined 138 dog remains, and it puts the number of dogs still unaccounted for at around...
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