Sometimes, thankfully, the most horrible seeming things are not what they appear to be.
On Wednesday, the Internet lighted up with rage at the story of the five pit bulls left burning in a trash bag outside a beverage warehouse in Brooklyn. Who would commit such a horrific act, people asked. And why
This afternoon, the necropsy results were announced by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. They may surprise you.
The dogs were four puppies and their mother. The mother died before going into labor, apparently after eating a plastic object that caused two acute intestinal obstructions. After her death, someone cut her open.
“This was an attempt by the individuals to deliver the puppies,†said Bret Hopman, a spokesman for the society. “But the puppies died the same time the mother died.â€
We may never learn why he two men seen in a grainy video dumping the bag near a trash heap and setting it aflame chose such a strangely violent way of disposing of a dead dog and her unborn pups. But their intentions, at least at some point, seem to have been good.
