Six Dogs Found Starving At Foreclosed Home In Tracy

February 22, 2012 8:04 AM

TRACY (CBS13) – Six abandoned and starving dogs found in Stanislaus County are now being cared for, thanks to an anonymous tip.

Tracy Animal Control workers found the dogs at a foreclosed duplex last week. According to the officers, one dog was found inside the building surviving on nothing but potatoes.

Two other dogs and three puppies were found in the yard. They were starving and had very little room to move.

Neighbors say it has been weeks since they’ve seen the owners.

“The dogs were kept in a very small area filled to the brim with trash and their feces had been building up,” said Beth Palacios of the Tracy Animal Shelter. “They could count their ribs at this point.”

The owner has 10 days to claim the dogs before they are put up for adoption.

Maria Ross

Really? After this deplorable treatement, they give the owner 10 days to claim them again rather than adopt them out immediately to people who will care for them? Animal cruelty laws need to be harsher, in my opinion – after something like this, the owner should NEVER be allowed to adopt any animal again. let alone claim these poor little guys back.
aaron

Exactly 10 days to claim the dogs?? How about 10 days to turn themselves in? That is animal cruelty, and they can tell exactly who lived there by just contacting the landlord. Our society and police departments are a joke for letting this go unpunished.
swinss

I’m sure Animal control is hoping the owners will show up, so they can issue animal cruelty citations.
I’ll never understand how a human can be cruel to any animals.
What is wrong with our species………………..
toni

why don’t they find the people who lived there and arrest them? obviously they have names on the rental lease. easy problem solved
garbAGE

Why don’t they just let the people who owned them stay there with the same conditions for ten days? Problem solved.
Lucy

Why are they going to let them be reclaimed by the people who did this?
barb

WHY WOULD THEY GIVE THEM BACK!
I hate people more by the day, I prefer the company of my own little doggies to most of the poo throwing monkeys.