CHESTERFIELD, S.C. — Animal rescuers in South Carolina said Saturday that they have found two dogs thought to be from a local shelter shot in the head and buried at a landfill, and they suspect there might be more.
Whitney Knowlton, founder of Last Chance Animal Rescue Fund, said the two dogs were found Friday at a landfill. She said she thinks the dogs were from the county-run shelter and were killed by animal-control officers.
Chesterfield County Sheriff Sam Parker told WSOC-TV, which first reported the story, that his office is investigating. A message left with a dispatcher for the sheriff’s office was not returned Saturday morning. The sheriff’s office oversees animal control.
Knowlton said rescuers who regularly work with the shelter in Chesterfield, S.C., were tipped off by an inmate working there. Some inmates working at the shelter had been saying that dogs were being taken off-site and weren’t coming back, Knowlton said.
One told a rescuer working with the shelter that dogs were being taken to the landfill and being shot.
The Associated Press
