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Bag of dead puppies dumped next to mailbox in Texas town

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Texas neighborhood wants answers after someone dumped a bag of dead puppies right next to the community mailbox.

The Burnet County Sheriff’s Office said the case is under investigation.


“Inside this plastic bag were several decomposed puppies. They were so decomposed that you couldn’t really tell what type of dog they might have been,” said BCSO Support Services Captain Michael Sorenson.

  • Garbage bag dead puppies Burnet
    In one Burnet neighborhood, there have been at least two cases of animals being abandoned near their mailboxes. (Photo: Miranda Lowry)
  • Garbage bag dead puppies Burnet
    Miranda Lowry said she hopes police can find the person who dumped the bag of dead puppies. (Photo: Miranda Lowry)

“Hope they didn’t suffer”

Miranda Lowry and her family were the first to discover the garbage bag.

“The flies were just crazy,” Lowry said. “It was swarming.”

When her family drove to their neighborhood, Lowry said they saw the bag in their community mailbox in Burnet. The smell was so strong, she said, that they immediately knew something was wrong.

“We were just going to look at it and then throw it in our community dumpster that we have about a half mile down the road,” Lowry said. “But at that point I was like, ‘No, let’s not do it.'”

After she called 911, the Burnet County Sheriff’s Office responded. When she discovered what was inside, her heart broke.

“It’s really heartbreaking,” she said.

Lowry added that animals had been abandoned at the same location at least once before.

“There were a lot of cats and kittens at the time,” said Lowry, whose family took in one of the kittens. “They were about six months old.”

Now, she says, she can never look at a garbage bag the same way again.

“Every time I see a garbage bag on the side of the road, I ask myself, ‘Hey, should we check that out?'” Lowry said.

She has also asked her homeowners association to install cameras near the mailbox to prevent this from happening in the future.

What penalties are there for this?

BCSO said this type of crime carries serious consequences.

“This is a heinous crime. If we could track down the person who did this, we could actually charge them with animal cruelty,” Sorenson said.

Cruelty to animals is also a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by fines and prison sentences.

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