The world may now rest easy. 
 
 Police in North Carolina have charged Katharine F. Lemansky, 45, with animal cruelty after she posted a photo on Facebook of her chocolate lab-mix with its mouth taped shut with duct tape. The misdemeanor is punishable by up to 150 days in jail, a press release said. 
 
 Officers in Cary, a town just west of Raleigh, were contacted by South Daytona police Monday afternoon and went to her home within an hour. 
 
 The photo went viral after it was posted Friday to her Facebook page under the name "Katie Brown." It resulted in hundreds of calls, Facebook messages and emails to the South Daytona Police Department from places as far away as Australia, causing the department's email server and computers to crash. 
 
 The Facebook page said she lived in South Daytona, but officials said she hadn't lived there in more than a year. Tips also said she lived in Connecticut. 
 
 Lemansky later posted on Facebook that the dog's mouth was only taped for a minute. 
 
 She told police that the incident happened in Cary. It's not clear how South Daytona police tracked her to Cary. 
 
 "Taping the dog's muzzle shut was a terrible decision on Ms. Lemansky's part, and charging her with animal cruelty under North Carolina law was the right thing to do," said Cary police Capt. Randall Rhyne. 
 
 Animal control officers examined the dog and its littermate and determined they were well cared for. There was no sign of injury to the dog's muzzle, Rhyne said. 
 
 "The dogs are current on their shots, spayed and microchipped," Rhyne said. "They are clean and well-nourished and appear to be comfortable in their surroundings." 
 
 Because animal cruelty is a misdemeanor charge, Lemansky was not arrested or taken to jail. She must appear in Wake County court on Dec. 14, police said. 
 
 dharris@tribune.com or 407-420-5471 ||||| The woman accused of posting a photo of a dog with its mouth wrapped in duct tape on Facebook was arrested in North Carolina. 
 
 On Friday, Katharine F. Lemansky, who uses the name “Katie Brown” on Facebook posted the picture of her chocolate lab-mix with the caption that said “This is what happens when you don't shut up!!!" 
 
 The woman’s post was shared hundreds of thousands of times, however it appears the post has since been taken off the Facebook page. 
 
 Police departments and news stations were inundated with phone calls about the post. 
 
 On Monday, Lemansky was charged with cruelty to animals by the Cary Police Department after she told police that the incident took place in North Carolina. 
 
 “Taping the dog's muzzle shut was a terrible decision on Ms. Lemansky's part, and charging her with animal cruelty under North Carolina law was the right thing to do," Cary Police Captain Randall Rhyne said in a release on Monday. 
 
 Police said there are no additional charges pending against Lemansky. 
 
 "At the same time, it's important to also note that our animal control officers who physically examined both Brown and her littermate found the dogs to be very well cared for, which is why we did not and could not remove them from the owner. The dogs are current on their shots, spayed, and microchipped. They are clean and well-nourished and appear to be comfortable in their surroundings. And there were no signs of injury to Brown's muzzle, not even detectable hair loss,” Rhyne said. 
 
 The Cary Police Department said they worked with law enforcement officials across two states. 
 
 On Saturday, Avon police said they went to the address that she had lived at but she reportedly hasn’t lived there for some time. 
 
 “The Avon Police Department Animal Control Office is actively investigating this case and we want to assure you that we take all cases of animal abuse very seriously,” the Avon Police Department said in a statement on Monday. 
 
 Torrington police said the incident didn’t happen in town and that she doesn’t live there, and police in South Daytona said the woman hasn’t lived in town for over one year. 
 
 South Daytona Police Department determined that Lemansky had not lived in their town for more than a year. 
 
 "It's always horrific to see an animal treated that way,” Amy Harrell with CT Votes for Animals said. 
 
 But some feel people have gone too far. 
 
 Martha Hickey owns a dog grooming business, Doggie in the Window, in Simsbury and nasty comments were posted on her businesses Facebook page. They accuse them of animal cruelty because a woman, who works at the grooming business, is friends on Facebook with Katie Brown. 
 
 The employee told Hickey that she hasn't talked to her in 20 years. 
 
 “I was astonished when I looked at Facebook yesterday, looking at the postings yesterday,” Hickey said. “How people could even arrive at this." 
 
 While Facebook can expose bad things, there's a lot we don't know. 
 
 “All we have is a still photograph, so we don't know the back story," Harrell said. “We don't know what the context was. What was happening at the time." 
 
 A dispatcher in Avon said one caller demanded police do more and asked the dispatcher how she would feel if her mouth was taped shut. 
 
 Right now, police want to talk to brown and see her dog. 
 
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– A woman who attracted the wrath of animal lovers around the world with a Facebook photo of a dog with its muzzle duct-taped shut has been tracked down. Police in Cary, NC, say Katharine Lemansky, who posted under the name "Katie Brown," was charged with animal cruelty but is being allowed to keep her two dogs because they appear to be very well cared for and are clean, well-nourished, "current on their shots, spayed, and microchipped," WFSB reports. "Taping the dog's muzzle shut was a terrible decision," a police spokesman says, but animal control officers who examined the chocolate-lab mix found no sign of injury, "not even detectable hair loss." Lemansky, 45, is due in court Dec. 14 and could get up to 150 days in jail, the Orlando Sentinel reports. In South Daytona, Fla., where Lemansky used to live, police say they spoke to investigators in two other states after receiving a deluge of complaints about the photo over the weekend. A spokesman for the Volusia County Sheriff's Office tells the Daytona Beach News-Journal that the office dealt with more than 1,000 phone calls and a similar number of Facebook messages, which he tried to respond to individually. The "greatest burden fell to our extraordinarily patient dispatchers, who picked up hundreds of repetitive, emotionally charged phone calls, dealt with them appropriately, and continued to run a highly organized and efficient dispatch operation for our entire county," he says. (A Texas woman was arrested after posting photos of her neighbor's diapered dog.)