Police probe dog lard slaughter
7th August 2009
Prosecutors near Czestochowa have launched an animal cruelty investigation after a police raid on a farm unearthed evidence suggesting that the owners were turning dogs into lard.
In a discovery that officials have described as “macabre” and “shocking” police and veterinary officers found at least 20 caged dogs, some of which appeared to have been fattened to the point that had difficulty standing.
In other outbuildings investigators came across the scattered and rotten remains of a number of dogs, which appeared to have been dismembered with an axe, and in one room a filthy and greasy fridge packed with bottles of lard. “I don’t even want to think about what happened here, ...
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