For Immediate Release:
April 13, 2023
Contact:
Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382
Pulaski, Va. – PETA is using a benefit of approximately $5,000 for info causing the arrest and conviction of the individual(s) accountable for taping a dog’s legs together, confining him in a container, and leaving him in a dumpster exterior Ollie’s Bargain Outlet.
According to reports, a staff member at the shopping mall found the dog—a 4-year-old tan Chihuahua combine with a white muzzle—throughout the day on Friday, March 31. The container he was caught in is blue with a white cover and text that checks out, “Pioneer Athletics,” and is thought to have actually initially consisted of field-marking paint. The dog is now in the custody of the Pulaski Police Department.
Police are examining, and PETA is asking regional citizens to help get the word out and installed complimentary downloadable posters (available here) in businesses and schools, on bulletin board system, and anywhere else that they’re permitted to show them in the hope that somebody will acknowledge this dog—and understand who abandoned him.
“This dog was bound, sealed inside a bucket, and dumped like garbage to suffocate or starve to death,” says PETA Senior Vice President Colleen O’Brien. “If there are any other dogs in the culprit’s custody, they’re likely in danger, and PETA is urging anyone who might know something about this case to come forward immediately.”
Tipsters ought to call Detective Rick Riddle of the Pulaski Police Department at 540-994-8609.
PETA—whose slogan checks out, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info, please check out PETA.orglisten to The PETA Podcastor follow the group on Twitter, Facebookor Instagram.
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