Dogs found shot and shoved into dog food bags on Bullitt County road

KENTUCKY -- Police say dogs were apparently shot, then dumped on the side of a Bullitt County road, their bodies stuffed in dog food bags. A local woman is now trying to help find the dog killer.

The pictures of the dead dogs are so graphic, we had to blur them.

"My husband and I were on our way home," said Tina Miller. "And when we passed here, we seen two green dog food bags, and in one bag, you could see the hind quarters of a really large dog sticking out."

The bags were dumped along Greenwell Ford Road. Residents say it's a popular cut-through in Bullitt County between Mt. Washington and Shepherdsville, often called the "River Bottoms."

Miller stopped to find out what was inside the bags.

"They had been stuffed in and the second one we took out, the Weimaraner, its little head had been twisted around," she said. "They didn't care. They were just shoved in the bag."

She says she pulled the dogs out of the dog food bags to take pictures and called police the next day. Police say they had already been alerted.

Kentucky State Police Post 4 came out with Bullitt Animal Control on Monday.  KSP says right now, it has not launched an investigation, but say if anyone has tips on the case to call them. KSP confirms the two dead dogs had been shot.

"I would like to find out who done this and put a stop to it," Miller said.

A couple of miles away, along the side of the same road, she found another dog food bag. WDRB saw the remains inside.

"It had smaller dogs," Miller said. "Don't know how many it had in it, but they were smaller and they were older because it was mostly bones. You can tell there was a rib cage."

Bullitt County Animal Control and Shelter is temporarily holding the dogs. The shelter says both were shot in the chest and look like Weimaraners -- hunting dogs. The shelter says they will be cremated under KSP's orders.

"This just makes me sick because anybody out there... that would have gladly adopted these dogs and gave them homes," Miller said. "You didn't have to kill them and dispose of them like this."

Animal Control says people often dump animals that are alive at the River Bottoms. They're often called to pick them up. But Animal Control says it's rare that dogs are found dead.

(WDRB - April 23, 2015)