6 Dead Dogs Discovered at Dump Site Underneath Oklahoma City Overpass

An animal rescue team found a dump web-site for lifeless pet dogs underneath a active overpass in Oklahoma Town.

The website was underneath the I-40 overpass near Tinker Diagonal Street, near to the Del Metropolis border. Angie Tomlinson, a single of the co-administrators of Miller’s Cause Animal Rescue, claimed on Wednesday, April 5, a colleague’s good friend discovered a pit bull working down the middle of I-40. The pet was eventually caught. When the rescuers ended up striving to uncover the pit bull’s operator, two males told them about the useless puppies dumped beneath the overpass.

The next working day, Tomlinson and Debbie Davis-Sanders with The Marlee Job went to the web site underneath the overpass, where they observed 6 useless canines. The first two carcasses they observed were being laying side-by-aspect.

“It was quite obvious to us that these pet dogs did not die the natural way,” claimed Tomlinson. “You will find no way two pet dogs laid by themselves back again-to-back again on their sides and died naturally.”

Tomlinson reported they before long found a different dead doggy that appeared to have been tossed from the overpass.

“There is one particular canine that – the way it truly is laying because it is really on its back, splayed out backwards across a log and it is really ideal (below) the bridge – that it looks like anyone threw it off the bridge,” explained Tomlinson.

Tomlinson believed just one of the 6 lifeless canines may perhaps have been shot.

“There is a person canine that by some means has crawled alone up under a great deal of shrubbery beneath a massive tree. And it is not effortless to get to it. But when you seem at that dog, it will not have a reduced jaw or a confront. It has the top of its cranium but all the base is lacking,” said Tomlinson. “It seems to be like it can be been shot.”

OKC Animal Welfare Superintendent Jon Gary explained 1 of the shelter’s cruelty investigators checked on the lifeless canines, which have been at distinctive levels of decomposition. Though the carcasses had no recognizable injuries, it was unclear if the canine were being abused when they were being alive. The dead dogs did not have everything that linked them to an operator, Gary said.

There had been no cameras at the web-site, Gary extra.

Whilst it was unclear how the dogs died, Tomlinson said Oklahoma was in “a actual animal welfare disaster.” She referenced a new scenario in which an individual drowned four canines at Edwards Park in Oklahoma Metropolis.

“It’s hard to know is this a deranged person and is this portion of the very same men and women that dumped animals at the pond? Or are these folks who are discovering stray pet dogs on the street for the reason that we are overrun with animals and we you should not have a fantastic position to choose them? And yes, Oklahoma Metropolis Animal Welfare is in a disaster proper now. But this has been likely on prolonged right before the the latest sickness at the shelter,” mentioned Tomlinson.

Tomlinson mentioned in buy to protect animals, people today require to function alongside one another to press for change.

“I think as a group, we have to severely have an understanding of that we cannot rescue our way out of this challenge,” reported Tomlinson. “For the very last 10 years, we’ve been performing actually difficult to rescue pet dogs, pull puppies out of shelters, adopt them out, transfer them out of condition. But we are now at a stage exactly where all the other states are whole of puppies. We’ve moved all the canines we can move and we’re even now developing much more puppies than there are households for. So we have to genuinely get the job done as a point out and a local community to raise funding, to improve assets and access to spay/neuter legislation, and make guidelines that are enforceable and then implement them.”