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Dog Days in Puerto Rico

09:28 H | Topics: Controversia - Puerto Rico

We already know that in Puerto Rico the police treat people like animals. Actual animals on the island aren't faring so well either. Last week animal control workers seized dozens of dogs and cats from housing projects in the town of Barceloneta, Puerto Rico and hurled them from a bridge to their deaths. Animal control had been called in because th housing projects have a no-pet policy. The animals were to be sent to a shelter in Carolina but instead were injected with an unknown substance and the pets and strays were thrown 50 feet from a bridge in the neighboring town of Vega Baja.

"Many were already dead when they threw them, but others were alive," said Jose Manuel Rivera, who lives next to the bridge. "Some of the animals managed to climb to the highway even though they were all battered, but about 50 animals remained there, dead."

Via / Yahoo News!

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