{"id":14971,"date":"2020-06-21T22:10:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T01:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=14971"},"modified":"2020-06-21T22:10:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T01:10:18","slug":"spca-completes-investigation-into-discovery-of-carcass-in-beaver-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=14971","title":{"rendered":"SPCA completes investigation into discovery of carcass in Beaver Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BEAVER BANK: <\/strong>The N.S. SPCA confirms they investigated the discovery of a carcass found wrapped inside a plastic bag that \u201cappeared to have German shepherd like fur\u201d on a subdivision street in Beaver Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenzie Volente received a text from a neighbour that they had spotted a garbage bag in the ditch on Sidhu Drive on May 30. They began to notice a bad smell from it on June 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe called the non-emergency police line to report what she had found,\u201d said Volente. \u201cThe animals were in three garbage bags, two black, and one clear but was so dirty you couldn\u2019t see exactly inside it. The police came and checked the bags, and called the neighbour back and said it was a deer carcass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI drove down the road at 6:30 p.m. that night and the bag was still there. I called HRM 311 at 7:16 p.m., and they were there within an hour. We drove down and saw the city road worker and he said it was not a deer, but what looked like two medium-sized German shepherd-coloured dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe bags were located in the newly developed area of Sidhu drive, just after the old houses stop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Special Const. Jo-Anne Landsburg, Chief Provincial Inspector with the N.S. SPCA, confirmed their office did do an investigation into the discovery of the carcass on a street in Beaver Bank. It was initially believed there were two dogs wrapped in plastic, however it was later determined there was just one carcass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe carcass had been picked up by the city which made it difficult for the SPCA to fully investigate, however, our officer did speak with the road crew supervisor who informed us that there was only one carcass inside the bag,\u201d said Landsburg in an email interview with The Laker News. \u201cIt was also very decomposed and that it only appeared to have German shepherd like fur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith our experience, this could have very easily been a coyote that was found on the side of the road.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Lisa Blackburn was also made aware of the discovery and investigated the matter with HRM 311 as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Volente said the discovery was upsetting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was extremely disturbing that someone would do this and dump poor animals on a residential street for kids and families to find,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Landsburg said they did receive a statement from the reporting person, and she did not witness the carcass herself and only spoke with the road worker who thought it may look like a German Shepherd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere have been no reports of missing dogs reported to us in this area, and local persons have been advised to contact us should they have any further information,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Landsburg said they have no further information on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDue to the decomposition, we will not be requesting a necropsy be performed by the Department of Agriculture pathology lab,\u201d said Landsburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BEAVER BANK: The N.S. SPCA confirms they investigated the discovery of a carcass found wrapped inside a plastic bag that \u201cappeared to have German shepherd like fur\u201d on a subdivision street in Beaver Bank. Kenzie Volente received a text from a neighbour that they had spotted a garbage bag in the ditch on Sidhu Drive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[10,1177,1042,589],"class_list":["post-14971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-beaver-bank","tag-dead-dog","tag-lisa-blackburn","tag-ns-spca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}