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HAMILTON — A Hamilton woman faces animal cruelty charges after one of her dogs was found 20 pounds under weight.

"If you had stopped feeding the dog all together, it would have taken a month to get it looking like that," said Leland Gordon, executive director for the Animal Friends Humane Society in Trenton, where the dog has been being treated.

This 2-year-old boxer named Eve was found starving on Goodman Avenue, Gordon said. The Butler County dog warden arrested Tera C. Minyard-Doane, of Goodman Avenue in Hamilton. She is charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty and failure to license.

Doane has also been charged with two counts of animal abandonment for allegedly leaving two other small dogs in a gas station parking lot during the weekend. Gordon said the two small dogs were taken to a nearby shelter and were in much better shape than Eve.

Doane is scheduled to appear this week in Hamilton Municipal Court and Butler County Area II Court.

Aside from treatment at the shelter, her boxer has been hospitalized at a vet clinic. Gordon estimated she had about a month of recovery ahead that would cost hundreds of dollars.

Gordon said the boxer has already been placed in a foster home that would be adopting her. To donate to her care, contact the humane society at (513) 867-5005.

Contact this reporter at (513) 820-2190 or jrinaldi@coxohio.com.