By Brittany Woodby
BWOODBY@CULLMANTIMES.COM
Cullman County sanitation employees nursed several injured puppies Tuesday after a driver found the animals in a dog food bag left outside a residence for garbage pickup.
“If one of the puppies hadn’t been whining, he probably wouldn’t have known they were in there and just tossed them in the back of the truck to be compacted,” Sanitation Manager Mike Burleson said.
The driver picked the dogs up from a residence along Alabama Highway 278 near the Blount County line and took the dogs back to the office where employees washed and examined them.
“They had been knocked in the head with something like a hammer, I guess to kill them,” sanitation employee Jamie James said.
James said when they lifted the puppies out of the dog food bag, she saw two of the animals were dead. The remaining three were whimpering and covered in blood.
“They were so bloody. ... We gave them baths and some milk,” she said.
The employees called the Cullman County Sheriff’s Department and Animal Control and filed a report of the incident. James said they also called Cullman veterinarian Bruce Lee, who volunteered to examine the three dogs.
“It’s awful,” she said. “We see animals left out with the garbage a lot, but this is the first time we’ve found some that are injured. Usually, the dogs are fine.”
According to the Code of Alabama, a person is guilty of animal cruelty if he or she killed or injured an animal without good cause. In Alabama, animal cruelty is a Class B misdemeanor.
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Cullman County sanitation employee Karl Price gives a wounded puppy to sanitation manager Mike Burleson, who took the animals to a veterinarian for examination. Cullman County Deputy Jason Allen responded to the scene. Brittany Woodby
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