Chained, starving dogs rescued from backyard
Frierson, LA (US)Incident Date: Sunday, Jun 28, 2009
County: De Soto
Disposition: Not Charged
Abuser names unreleased
Four dogs recently found neglected and hungry are no longer suffering in the heat in DeSoto Parish. It was neighbors who first came to the rescue. And now, the solution also came from a private citizen.
Last weekend neighbors came to the rescue of four pitbull dogs, all-but- abandoned and growing thinner and thinner, chained-up in the backyard of a home just off Linwood Avenue in the northern part of the parish. One neighbor told us, "it just breaks my heart. Like I said, I go over and we try to chuck food to them because we don't have any animals, you know."
Four days later the dogs are gone. The DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Office got involved, along with a concerned citizen, who is now caring for the dogs. "It pleased me. I was real glad, 'cause I hate to see an animal starve to death," said longtime neighbor Loyce Ratliff, who lives right across the street. References |
