Brevard County, FL – A Florida vet tech, trained to care for animals, is accused of a despicable act of cruelty. According to Sheriff Wayne Ivey with the Brevard County Sheriff’s Department, Christianna Miller left her apartment in December, and her pets died a slow and torturous death in the days and weeks that followed.
Sheriff Ivey says the 23-year-old abandoned two dogs, Opal and Rudy, and a cat named Gnocchi. In a cruel twist, Ivey says Miller’s pets were left in a bedroom, with their food on a shelf in sight, but out of their reach.
The cruel situation was not discovered until April, when a pest control worker came to the apartment and discovered hundreds of flies, and the decomposing remains of Miller’s long-dead pets.
According to the sheriff, Miller claimed that she hired a pet sitter to care for the dogs and cat, but she could not provide a name and had no proof that she paid anyone to come to her home. Sheriff Ivey said Miller has done this before; back in 2024 she failed to care for a dog, who died of starvation. Sheriff Ivey said, “in Volusia County, (she) had another dog that she was supposed to take care of that was found completely emaciated and died as a result, too. So guess what? They didn’t do anything up in Volusia. But that ain’t gonna happen here in Brevard.”
Miller faces three counts of animal cruelty; three counts of unlawful confinement without sufficient food, water or exercise; and three counts of animal abandonment. She is held on bond of $28,500.
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