Two kayakers were moving down the Blackstone River in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, when they heard peculiar whimpering sounds coming from an old potato sack, which was gradually sinking into the river. After hearing the sounds, the quick-thinking kayakers reached out for the bag and opened it.
To their astonishment, inside the sack were six newborn puppies. They were so young that their eyes hadn’t fully opened yet.
Someone apparently dumped the labrador-mix puppies, believed to be seven days old, in the grain bag, tied it, and tossed them away like unwanted trash. They were left to die; fortunately, the kayakers chanced upon the bag and rescued the puppies. Later, they contacted the Uxbridge Police Department.
The litter, consisting of three male and three female puppies, was safe, although the smallest puppy required extra attention.
To find the culprit behind this heinous crime, officials were looking for a man on a mountain bike, seen in the area of River Road between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on Sept. 24, 2017, who might have information.
“Obviously this is a heinous act, unconscionable,“ Lourie said. ”We definitely want to be able to charge [the suspect] with six counts of cruelty to animals.”
“It unconscionable, you can’t imagine what’s going through my head as a police officer for 29 years, someone would do that, someone would take six fairly newborn puppies and discard them in a body of water,” the police chief said.
Though these six tiny lab-mix puppies were only one week old, they were already survivors. They were being cared for by Uxbridge Animal Control before they would be ready for adoption in a few months’ time.
It’s unbelievable someone was trying to drown these six furry puppies by stuffing them in a potato sack. Luckily, these innocent newborn pups were rescued just in the nick of time.
