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MI: Dead Pit Bulls Found After Snow Melts

Discussion in 'Pit Bull News' started by Vicki, Mar 25, 2014.

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  1. Vicki

    Vicki Administrator Staff Member

    By Phyllis M Daugherty, Tue, March 25, 2014

    Dozens of dead dogs curled into fetal positions, covered with scars and lacerations, were found on Thursday by Greg Ostrander, who was walking through River Rouge Park in Detroit, along West Outer Drive between Plymouth Road and West Warren Avenue, on his way to the pharmacy.

    Ostrander said he first found a dead dog with lacerations, curled up at tightly as possible for warmth, inside an abandoned kennel in the middle of Spinoza Drive. The dog was padlocked and chained to the kennel. About 20 feet away, Ostrander saw a dead Rottweiler.

    At least 28 large dogs – mostly pit bulls and Mastiff mixes – were found when the snow started to thaw, Detroit Animal Welfare Group board member Nicole Litzelman told CBS Detroit.

    “Because of the heavy snowfall in the month of January, a lot of these deceased bodies were discarded there because it was easier to cover them up. Also, it was an unusually cold month where a lot of dogs froze outside or were left to starve to death,” Litzelman said.

    “This is just a small tip of the iceberg. Right now, since the snow is melting, I’m sure we’re going to find quite a few more bodies in the park,” she lamented.

    Litzelman believes many of the dogs are innocent victims, thrown into bloody fighting pits and forced to fight for their lives – or, more often, to their deaths.

    Dog fighters know they can’t just throw the corpses into the trash bins because some of the city trash collectors will report dead animals, she said, and also they don’t want to draw attention to the houses where they’re fighting the dogs illegally.

    There’s also the reality that many of the dogs are not yet completely dead but need to be dumped because they are so badly wounded and suffering so severely that they must get rid of them as soon as possible.

    Litzelman said the park has become a dumping ground for dogs killed in fights.

    “A majority of them are due to illegal activities, such as fighting. It’s consistent with the bite wounds that are on the dogs. Most of them have either bled to death or have large gaping wounds that were never treated,” she said. “The park is well-known for dog fighting and has a high activity for drugs and other illegal activities.”

    While some of the dogs were clearly involved in fighting activities, other appear to have been strays or worse – dropped off by families that at one time might have loved them.

    The grisly discoveries prompted Ostrander and members of DAWG to search for the bodies of more deceased animals in the park, the Detroit News reports.

    “It’s a famous dumping ground for dogs people don’t want any more,” Gary Ostrander told the Detroit News. “It’s just heart-wrenching.”

    Ostrander said he also found six gored dogs littering the park, some of which were bloated and decomposing. A few months ago, he said he buried a Rottweiler that had been wrapped in a bloodied sheet and left in the park.

    Before that, he said he found a pit bull “with its face all chewed up” and another bloody canine in a garbage can in the park.

    “It’s just very sad and disturbing to see … It’s one of the biggest problems that we have right now in the city,” said Litzelman.

    Some of the dogs in the park are clinging to life, and Litzelman said they are in even more danger.

    “The park is about 1,200 acres and there’s so many animals running around down there,” she said. She added that DAWG had just been tipped off that there are people trying to feed the live dogs enough to lure them to where they can be caught and used as bait dogs.

    To raise awareness of the growing problem, DAWG organized a walk-through at River Rouge Park, at noon on Saturday.

    “We’re going to have quite a few volunteers come out there and meet us, bring garbage bags and try to clean up some of the park by removing the deceased bodies, trying to see if we can catch some live dogs by setting up traps, and hopefully try to thwart off some of the illegal dog fighting activities going on in the park,” she said.

    “The city is cash-strapped and is having issues as far as police coverage and animal control coverage so somebody has got to try to take ahold of the problem and do something.”

    DAWG’s website is Non-profit No-Kill Animal Rescue - Home - Macomb, MI if anyone wants to help or donate to their effort.

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    Dead Pit Bulls with Wounds and Scars Found in Detroit Park as Snow Melts
     
    Vicki, Mar 25, 2014
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  2. ELIAS'PISTOLA

    ELIAS'PISTOLA CH Dog

    people that let dogs suffer and die in a fetal possition,disregaurding the body in the park are truly sick.
    they will probably die the same way.Is it me, but the combination of poverty and cold in the most of the great lakes areas make them more detatched to life in general?
    3MT3A THANKS FOR ALL YOUR WORK,IT OFTEN IS SHOCKING AND WE NEED THE TRUTH, no one likes being the burier of bad news but some one has to do it.
    ON A LIGHTER NOTE, I SURE LIKE ALL THE PICS YOU POST OF YOUR DOGS they look like some of mine and have that handsome/beautiful BOLIO look i love so much.KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
     
    ELIAS'PISTOLA, Mar 26, 2014
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  3. okcdogman82

    okcdogman82 Top Dog

    that is truly fuckin sad and depressing much better to just put em down then let em suffer like that!!
     
    okcdogman82, Mar 27, 2014
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  4. david63

    david63 CH Dog

    Truly some sick people in this world and you're looking at it.
     
    david63, Mar 27, 2014
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  5. AGK

    AGK Super duper pooper scooper Administrator


    Don't group us all in that category, I nor anyone I know, would ever do some low life shit like that to a dog..... Sick motherfuckers live all throughout this country, in warm climates and ones who come from money too...
     
    AGK, Mar 27, 2014
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  6. treezpitz

    treezpitz CH Dog Staff Member

    Very well said AGK!

    Some sick shit though to do that to any animal.
     
    treezpitz, Mar 27, 2014
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  7. SteelyDan

    SteelyDan Big Dog


    Whatever 8 mile. Hahaha!!
     
    SteelyDan, Mar 27, 2014
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  8. Louis Cypher

    Louis Cypher Big Dog

    These assholes are hell bound....they just punched their own tickets...count on it. Wish I could send them there early.
     
    Louis Cypher, Mar 27, 2014
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  9. AGK

    AGK Super duper pooper scooper Administrator


    I'm not in Mi but I am on the Great lakes, Detroit is a shithole I would never live in lmao
     
    AGK, Mar 27, 2014
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  10. ELIAS'PISTOLA

    ELIAS'PISTOLA CH Dog

    Im not grouping all great lake areas up like that .I dont know about PA,but CHI,DETROIT,CLEVLEND and BUFFALO are
    areas where either poverty or economic equality in chicagos case with the super rich living blocks away from the ghettos, these situations are sometimes unaviodable as their just a product of thier enviroments.The jobs are scarce and father figures are outlined in chaulk, in jail or m.i.a. in alot of cases. Thier hungry and resort to stuff that makes no sense to others not in thier situations. A majority of these citys are boarded up and houses are practically free.Detroit has produced more badnews on the dogs then anywhere,i remeber the abondan apartment building that they found a shit ton of dead dogs,live dying dogs and even champions.RAM was lilled walking FLASH and FLASH dissapered.Some family in rochester took paz jr there andnever went back,as the shows often ended in robberies and shootouts. The olympics in russia had alot of stray dogs cause people were pushed out of thier apartments .It was then renivated into hotel rooms for turorist, pushing the people and thier dogs on the streets.I wish better for america. Maybe the gangs in these areas are colder than most, IVL used to chop off hands and take all the teeth from thier victoms in hopes to slow down the investigations.In one instance in front of thier kids to teach them how.No other gang had it in thier code to dismember victoms, except the ms 13 (or surenos in my area) yes chapos foot soldders are this cold and the come from real poverty in eq.To relate the two is differnt because one group decends from people has been fighting for survival for 300 years, and chopping heads off the whole time.The other group seems to do it out of social ignorance.Although hotter days and areas have higher crime rates when the temp climbs and mental illness runs rapid in the colder areas.Another case is the dude in cleveland who had a basement full of dead prostitutes, he quickly had a copy cat who did the same thing only disregaurding them in abandon houses.
    Then the other dude who kinnapped those three girls was driving a short bus also.Im not hating and knew my comment would stir up controversy, i mean no harm and know even in a crack on the sidewalk can produce flowers. check out http://www..:cohttp//sm/wyoutubeatch?v=8JlEXDj8RVw
    I like these dudes are examples of the good that can come from these areas, HIP HOPs not DEAD its in OHIO stand up. My pick for album of the year is Illogic Blockhead - Capture The Sun (Full Album) - YouTube. if you like HIP hOP and listen to this album and cant relate to something, your probably detatched also.
     
    ELIAS'PISTOLA, Mar 27, 2014
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  11. AGK

    AGK Super duper pooper scooper Administrator

    Crimes everywhere, however, every place you named have some of the strictest gun control laws in America. Funny how that works, the stricter the gun laws are in an area the worse the crime rate is. I was just being goofy, I'm not offended at all, there are plenty of sick fucks here too I assure you, babies get found in suitcases starved to death and put out on the curb for the garbage man to collect or put in the microwave and murdered, dude got a collar bomb put around his neck here and forced to rob a bank but the bomb went off as well as his head all over Peach Street so he didn't get very far, my ex wives boyfriends 2 year old daughter was kidnapped and raped then killed and left on the train tracks last summer. A kid walked into school and shot his teacher to death, I could go on and on but you get the idea. This country is fucked plain and simple don't think it much matters where one lives at these days as this type of shit happens everyday all around the country not just the GL's, many places are struggling economically all through out this country..... Luckily, we don't have a gang problem per say but the crime rate is crazy here too. They found dead pit bulls (many) down at the foot of our bay like 4 months ago, just dumped. People are just nuts these days and it don't look like much is being done to curb it either....
     
    AGK, Mar 28, 2014
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  12. ELIAS'PISTOLA

    ELIAS'PISTOLA CH Dog

    GREAT POINT MY FRIEND,CHICAGOs FUCKED BECAUSE THOSE LAWS.ALSO THE ATTEMPT TO ABOLISH THE UNION THAT KEPT THOSE AREAS AFLOAT.
     
    ELIAS'PISTOLA, Mar 28, 2014
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  13. treezpitz

    treezpitz CH Dog Staff Member

    Hey, leave Chicago alone LOL
     
    treezpitz, Mar 28, 2014
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  14. Michele

    Michele CH Dog Super Moderator

    Sick bastards!!
     
    Michele, Mar 28, 2014
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  15. Beatrix Kiddo

    Beatrix Kiddo Top Dog

    man this is super sad =/ poor things
     
    Beatrix Kiddo, Mar 28, 2014
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  16. CajunBoulette

    CajunBoulette CH Dog

    How many human bodies they find after it melted?

    Sincerely Yours, Cajun
     
    CajunBoulette, Mar 28, 2014
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  17. ELIAS'PISTOLA

    ELIAS'PISTOLA CH Dog

    ratio 5:1 cajun.
     
    ELIAS'PISTOLA, Mar 29, 2014
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  18. CajunBoulette

    CajunBoulette CH Dog

    5 humans to every 1 dog sounds about right! Now dont get me wrong that some sad shit to see the dogs like that. But its seems as if today's society has more compassion for animals than people.

    Sincerely Yours, Cajun
     
    CajunBoulette, Mar 29, 2014
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  19. david63

    david63 CH Dog

    Cajun I agree with you. I will never put an animals before a person.
     
    david63, Mar 29, 2014
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  20. Louis Cypher

    Louis Cypher Big Dog

    I will always have more compassion for animals than people.
     
    Louis Cypher, Mar 29, 2014
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