Between Jan 2025 and the spring of 2026, more than 900 dogs were legally transferred to Miranda's Rescue a purported "no-kill" sanctuary in Fortuna. The rescue's owner, Shannon Miranda, repeatedly claimed the animals were successfully adopted out, collecting thousands of dollars in surrender and training fees for each dog.
THE NUMBERS
📊 Received by Miranda’s Rescue (operated by Shannon Miranda): 900+ dogs
✅ Confirmed adopted: 116
🏠 Still at the facility (monitored by Animal Control 3x/week): ~50 dogs + cats & birds
❓Unaccounted for: 731
💲Fees collected: $500- several thousands of💲per animal…with the understanding that these animals had been “matched” with “their new, loving, fur-ever families.” In their new fur-ever
Earlier in the investigation, 8 dead dogs were recovered from a mass grave on the property…at least one identified via microchip from Oakland Animal Services.
These aren’t just numbers. These were living, breathing dogs entrusted to a “no-kill” 501(c)(3) sanctuary.
🚨731 ANIMALS “MISSING.”🚨
⚠️⛔️WARNING, this 🧵 may not be suitable for all readers!⛔️⚠️
A California “rescue” took in >900 Animals, from shelters across the state, and even Hawaii…from early 2025-May 1, 2026.
Only 116 adoptions have been confirmed. Currently, ~50 animals remain on site. This leaves 731 as “unaccounted” for.
Ground-penetrating radar detected buried animal remains. Excavation is underway…as we speak.
The FBI and multiple federal agencies are involved in what officials call an active animal cruelty, fraud, and theft investigation.
Video of the sheriff’s update attached. This is devastating. 😢
What happened to these Animals & what awaits the monsters who could do this to them?
Follow through on this 🧵, as we learn more…together.
https://t.co/eCyQH3QDw3
Investigators excavating a Northern California « animal rescue » found the remains of animals, including a horse and dogs, as authorities searched the property for evidence in a widening animal cruelty, fraud and theft investigation.
Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said that 730 animals remain unaccounted for after Miranda’s Rescue received more than 900 animals from shelters between January 2025 and this spring.
The FBI, state agencies and forensic experts joined @HumCoSO investigators in serving a second search warrant Tuesday morning at Miranda’s Rescue, a self-described “no-kill” sanctuary that received dogs from shelters, nonprofit organizations and private owners across California.
The warrant authorized investigators to excavate the property “in an effort to locate additional deceased animals” believed to be buried there, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said. The search marks the most aggressive phase yet in an investigation that began in April, after the sheriff’s office said it received credible information about allegations of felony animal abuse, animal cruelty, fraud and conspiracy involving Miranda’s Rescue.
⚠️ Anyone with relevant or first hand information related to this case is encouraged to contact the Sheriff’s Crime Tip Hotline at 707-268-2539 and leave a detailed message. This hotline is a secure voicemail system.
You can also email the Sheriff, [email protected]
Your information could help move this investigation forward.
Source: Jenna Moore, @RealPaulMueller ;, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office
#MirandaRescue #HumboldtCounty
This story goes far deeper than folks realize:
The two women who found the buried dogs have been reporting Shannon Miranda (the owner) to the county and state for YEARS.
Jennifer, one of the women, first reported him to local sheriffs in 2006, TWENTY YEARS AGO. #MirandasRanch
Miranda’s rescue in California is run by a man who will hopefully rot in the bowels of hell.
He took in animals for funding, shot and killed them and buried them on his property, so he could do the same to more. Near 120 deceased dogs have been recovered, and some 700 animals have been unaccounted for still.
My heart breaks for those poor dogs. The feelings I have towards this waste of oxygen however, are not something I can express without getting into trouble.
CW: Animal Cruelty, Death
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Every update is more enraging and horrifying than the next. Shannon Miranda needs to suffer.
Over 100 dogs found dead, many with bullet holes at Northern California rescue, authorities say.
https://t.co/fFf9grZole
Feds Unearth Bullet-Riddled Dog Corpses, 600 Collars Near Mass Graves At Rescue Sanctuary
Authorities searching Miranda's Rescue uncovered mass graves, suspected killing sites, and hundreds of canine remains.
The case has exposed a little-known part of California's animal welfare system: private rescues that accept animals from overcrowded public shelters, often for transfer fees, while operating outside direct government oversight.
It had contracts or transfer arrangements with various municipal/county animal shelters across California (and at least one mention involving out-of-state), under which it received per-animal fees (often hundreds to thousands of dollars). These are local government or shelter payments—not direct state appropriations or grants. Other shelters and rescues paid these fees to offload animals. The ongoing fraud investigation includes scrutiny of how these funds were used amid the high number of unaccounted animals.
@rescue_plaza aka Shannon Miranda (the founder) is an utter scumbag of the worst kind. There's a special place in hell for people taking in money to "rehome dogs" and shooting them. Absolute scum of the earth.
.IF?!! 100+ fully intact dog remains (ie: recent murders and many others too far decomposed) most shot in the head, 600+ collars found in the “suspected” murder crime scene-Their Barn.
Missing rescues & proper adoption documents. And people who abuse animals especially for profit don’t value life. Do you want them as neighbors?
Shannon Miranda best to come clean. This won’t go well but you may be able to escape the worst punishment by telling the truth to save your worthless a**. Regardless, you are scum.
Time to Culturally Ostracize the owner Shannon Miranda, those associated with the facility and the family. If the law won’t prosecute, there are others ways to make life difficult letting them know they are no longer welcome or accepted by the community. Make life unpleasant and uncomfortable. Begin public shaming Humboldt CA.
And seek the full force of penalty including Fraud, Felony and of course any and all animal cruelty charges. Make this as painful and public as possible. Seize all assets if possible.
Let them stand as a warning to the (sadly) many others out there.
Miranda’s Rescue Animal Sanctuary in Fortuna, California, the Humboldt Sheriff’s Office said on Friday.
The remains of over 100 dogs were found at a Northern California animal sanctuary during an investigation into suspected animal cruelty, the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office said on Friday. Preliminary reports say 70 of the dogs examined had died of gunshot wounds.
The investigation into Miranda's Rescue in Fortuna began April 22 after the sheriff's office said they received credible information of allegations of felony animal abuse, animal cruelty, fraud and conspiracy.
The sheriff's office completed the search on Friday and announced they had unearthed the intact remains of 117 dogs from two separate dig sites.
Shannon Miranda is married to his husband, Jim Oxboro. Local investigative reports by the North Coast Journalindicate that the couple shares real estate holdings, including a primary residence in Humboldt County and property in Las Vegas. This sick fkn twisted gay couple killed hundreds of dogs and buried them on their so called no kill animal sanctuary while soaking up donations and grants from people and various fund raisers. Death isn’t good enough for this twisted couple.
Word is that Shannon Miranda ran to Vegas.
Humboldt County failed to hold Miranda accountable for 3 permits over more than two decades and records suggest his fake rescue accepted about 600 dogs a year, with over 75% killed.
450 dogs x 23 years = over 10,000 dogs missing
@TheDissentSF Please prosecute to the fullest extent of the law and of the law isn't good enough then we need to change these laws! Absolutely sickening!