Man arrested after decayed bodies of 3 dogs found

FLORIDA -- One dog’s jaw was nearly ripped off. One crawled under the front porch where it died. Three total were dead.

All were left untreated. When Jacksonville authorities went to the home Wednesday in the 6600 block of Buffalo Avenue to investigate, they could smell the decaying animals. The homeowner said the dogs got into a fight and he wasn’t going to break it up, according to the arrest report.

When it sounded like they were done fighting, he told police they were severely injured and one “had its bottom jaw ripped almost off,” according to the report. He didn’t take them to a veterinarian because the dogs weren’t his — they were his ex-wife’s — and he couldn’t afford it, he told investigators.

He thought they would be OK and then thought he could just leave them there in the backyard, the report said. It had been about two weeks and all three died.

Anthony Curtis Porch, 50, was charged with three counts of animal cruelty and three counts of improper disposal of an animal.

(WTXL ABC 27-Jul 12, 2014)