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Bag Of Burned Puppies Were Dead Before The Flames
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Garth Johnston
Published Mar 8, 2013
Modified Mar 8, 2013
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Earlier this week everyone with a soul was horrified to learn of a bag full of dogs being set ablaze in Brooklyn. And with good reason! A grown dog and four puppies had been burned to a crisp in a bag? What kind of demented monster would do that? But maybe, the Times notes, the incident wasn't quite as horrible as it previously appeared.
The ASPCA performed a necropsy on the dogs and found that in fact they were already dead when two men dumped them in a bag near a pile of trash and set them ablaze. In fact, it appears the dogs were four puppies and their mother—who died before going into labor after eating a piece of plastic. After her death somebody tried to cut her open and save the puppies. "This was an attempt by the individuals to deliver the puppies,” Bret Hopman, a spokesman for the ASPCA explains. "But the puppies died the same time the mother died."
Why the bag of dogs were burned is still an open question being investigated by fire marshals. In the meantime, we're just relieved this story isn't quite as soul-crushing as it seemed.
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