It is a dramatic scene that the gendarmes and the agents of the SPA Paris had to face on Friday January 15 by participating in a rescue operation of about thirty dogs living in unsanitary conditions in La Roche-Morey and Fleury- lès-Lavencourt, in Haute-Saône, as reported by our colleagues from
France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
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Malinois, German shepherds and staffs, a total of 32 canines were found in two homes a few kilometers away.
Some were dehydrated, others were severely malnourished, and all were covered with ticks.
Many even lived in complete darkness.
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Friday January 15, several SPA trucks came especially from Paris to take care of the animals.
They were accompanied by the veterinary services of Haute-Saône.
About thirty gendarmes, including three dog handlers equipped with suits, were also mobilized to seize the dogs.
Operation to rescue the 32 dogs on January 15.
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Two brothers aged 24 and 27 are suspected of mistreating their animals.
They were taken into police custody for “
violence, serious abuse and cruelty to domestic animals
”.
They will be summoned later by the judicial court of Vesoul, specifies France 3.
The gendarmerie operation intervened after the sharp and repeated barking of the thirty or so animals pushed several neighbors, including the mayor of La Roche-Morey, to file a complaint for noise pollution a few months earlier, explains France 3. According to the
Is Republican
, an altercation would also have broken out last summer between the two owners of the dogs and a neighbor, about the aggressiveness of the animals.
The neighbor had then obtained a total incapacity for work for several days.
It was during this conflict that the gendarmes noticed the presence of dogs stored in the house.
