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$500 reward offered in dumpster puppy case

By Trey Paul - bio | email

GEORGETOWN COUNTY,SC (WMBF) – Volunteers at Coastal Animal Rescue are offering a $500 reward to anyone who helps them find the person who threw away five puppies in a dumpster behind Waccamaw Community Hospital.

The puppies, which are three weeks old now, were just born when they were found.  When Charlotte Troy, the owner of Benji's Bed and Breakfast, learned that a man found them, she offered to take care of them at her luxury dog boarding resort. 

Troy says one of her dachshund dogs helped foster and nurse the puppies for the first two weeks.

"One day I went in there to feed them and the bottles were off the table. The mother had climbed up on the table, taken the bottles down off the table and put them right beside the babies," she said.

Troy thinks the puppies are a mix between German shepherd and lab.

"I have a lot of difficulty with this because I wonder what happened to the mother. She went through the labor. She delivered these babies and they're gone," she said.

Karen McGranahan, a volunteer at Coastal Animal Rescue, says this type of thing happens all of the time.

"We're getting more and more calls about animals being abandoned in apartment buildings or people who are being evicted from homes. We can't take them. All shelters are full. So where are these dogs going to go," she asked.

If you're caught abandoning animals, you could pay up to $500 or spend 30 days in jail.

"It's too low of a fine. It's a slap on the wrist. The laws need to be strengthened. The fines need to be higher so these people will not abandon these animals or abuse them," McGranahan said.

She says somebody knows something and is hoping he or she will come forward.

"You never know. You just don't know. It's amazing how these stories turn out," Troy said.

Fortunately all of the puppies have a home, but if you know anything about who abandoned them, you're asked to call 685-2851

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