Dead dogs, cats on road

Updated November 6 2012 - 9:24pm, first published July 10 2008 - 12:15pm

DEAD cats and dogs found in plastics bags on the side of a road near Daylesford had fallen out from an unsecured truck that was transporting the euthanased animals from a vet, police said yesterday.But the horrified Mt Franklin resident who found the dead animals has labelled the explanation as a lie."There’s two lots, so somebody has done it twice," Sharon O’Neil said.Ms O’Neil said her husband initially found three bags down the embankment on Midland Highway last Wednesday, but did not take much notice of them.She said her husband then found another five bags last Sunday."He tore a bag open and saw a Rottweiler in one," she said.Ms O’Neil said her husband returned to the house and together they went back to open the rest of the bags.They found seven more dead cats and dogs."In my opinion they are either from a vet or a company that picks them up and they have come here and dumped them."Senior Constable Geoff Davies from Daylesford said one of the dogs had been microchipped and they verified that the animals had been euthanased at a vet.The vet put Daylesford police in touch with the transporting company and it confirmed the animals had not been dumped, but had fallen out from the back of the truck, Senior Constable Davies said.But Ms O’Neil believes the two separate lots of bags had been put there at different times."The first three bags were old, rotten and smelly and the other lot was still fresh."She said the two lots of bags were at least 50 metres apart."The Rottweiler and two other bags had been there for a while, they had been sitting there for a week or two," she said."They are linked because they are all in the same bags and on the same road."I think that whoever has done it thinks they have found somewhere where they cannot be caught. It’s not right."

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