Bloodied Dog Carcasses Found Near South Sac Mobile Home
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - The bloodied bodies of three dogs were found near a mobile home community in South Sacramento.
Neighbors told CBS13 that the smell had become unbearable after the dogs were left there for several days.
"Oh, it was horrible," said Larry Sagen. "I know the smell of dead."
Just outside of the Westerner Housing Community, Michael Zygacenko described an unsettling sight under a tarp near West Stockton Boulevard.
"I seen what looked like hair coming out of the side of it," he said.
Two dead pit bulls were wrapped up inside of the tarp and a third was stuffed in a sleeping bag in the bushes. Zygacenko and Sagen both called Sacramento Animal Care Services on Thursday but no one showed up to take the dogs away until Sunday evening.
"Everyone that I talked to, had called, or had talked to someone that they knew had called," Zygacenko said.
Gina Knepp, manager of Sacramento Animal Care Services, said the department is not only understaffed, but the dead dogs weren't at the top of their to-do list.
"We do our very best to attend to those quickly; however, I'm not going to lie, we have to attend to the living the injured, the abused, before we pick up the deceased," she said.
Zygacenko and Sagen are sure the animals had died in a dogfighting ring. But Knepp told CBS13 that at least one of the dogs had tested positive for Parvo, a deadly but preventable disease.
"None of this had to happen, if whoever owned these animals had appropriately vaccinated them," she said. "We see it over and over and over again."
Still, Zygacenko and Sagen wished the animals had been picked up sooner and that the police had gotten involved.
"I'd like to see it," Sagen said. "I'd like to see something done. I don't want to find anymore out here"
Knepp said the dogs didn't show any signs of being a part of a dogfighting ring. Two of the dogs were very young, which means they likely hadn't been vaccinated and may have also died from Parvo.
