A city employee made a terrible discovery as the snow melted away in Detroit's River Rouge Park
last week -- dozens of dead dogs, the bodies dumped like garbage on the ground.
Detroit saw near-record amounts of snow fall this winter (more than 90 inches at last count), which allowed
the animals' bodies, some still frozen, to go undiscovered until now.
It's likely that some of the dogs, mostly pit and mastiff mixes, were kept for fighting before their deaths,
CBS Detroit reported. Others may have been strays or even recently abandoned by their owners. Twenty-eight corpses, many covered in scars and lacerations, were found Thursday in the park.
Greg Ostrander lives near Rouge Park and walks his dogs there daily. He's tired of all the garbage dumping
inside the park, but he said the worst thing is finding dead animals. Eight months ago,
he came across the body of a dead Rottweiler. He said he called Detroit police
and animal control numerous times to take the body away. He ended up burying it himself.
On Thursday, Marc 20, Ostrander said, he found two more dead dogs in the park,
including one lying inside a discarded doghouse. Dozens of other bodies were found shortly thereafter.
"It's a dumping ground for people who don't want their dogs no more and people who are dumping
dead dogs down there," Ostrander said.
When Detroit Animal Welfare Group(DAWG), a non-profit rescue organization, went down to document all this with the American Strays Project
they found a terrified, live dog and save him from possibly being the next victim.
Thank you DAWG.
Long Live All Dogs!
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