Indiana: Dead, live Beagles and Cane Corsos seized from property

INDIANA -- Authorities on Thursday afternoon seized 10 dogs – and removed the remains of six others – from a property in southern Delaware County.

“If they weren’t living in rainwater six inches deep, they were living on literal mounds of their feces,” Phil Peckinpaugh, director of the Muncie Animal Shelter, said.

 

 

 

The six dead dogs were beagles, Peckinpaugh said. Three of those deceased animals were found in pet-food bags.

The surviving animals were both beagles and cane corso mastiffs. Peckinpaugh said.

 

 

 

 

 

The shelter director said a “typical animal welfare check” was initiated after authorities received a call at mid-afternoon Thursday about dogs at a property in the 10310 block of East County Line Road – just north of the Delaware-Henry county line – “living in standing water.”

Some of the surviving dogs were “very thin,” and the animals had no access to food or clean water, Peckinpaugh said.

 

 

 

 

One of the mastiffs was found inside a house on the property.

Peckinpaugh said the dogs would be taken to a local kennel for the time being, and would hopefully be examined by the state veterinarian on Friday.

 

 

 

 

“They all need immediate veterinary attention,” he said, adding that all of the surviving canines are “very saveable.”

New homes will eventually be found for the dogs if their owner does not post a bond in seeking to retain them, Peckinpaugh said.

Peckinpaugh said the property was “littered with trash, bar equipment, restaurant equipment” and containers, full and otherwise, of alcohol beverages.

 

 

Delaware County Sheriff Ray Dudley said his department’s investigators were trying to find the property’s owner.

A relative said he was out of town on Thursday, the sheriff said.

(The Star Press - April 1, 2016)