Two dogs were found dead near Spur Road on Dec. 11. Wrangell resident Melvin Gadd found the dogs. He was driving down the trail off of the spur road, and stopped to clear some brush away from the road, when he found them. He said that the bodies were fairly decomposed. He guessed that both animals were less than a year old. Gadd notified the police about the dead dogs, and they are investigating the situation.
The news of the dead dogs spread through town quickly, by word of mouth and via social media. Rumors spread on Facebook said that the dogs were tied to a tree and abandoned. McCloskey, when speaking to June Leffler with KSTK, refuted those rumors. He said that the dogs had been shot, not left to starve. The bodies had been left there for about a month, he added. Many people, online and in person, expressed shock and outrage that these dogs were killed. McCloskey said that the authorities had “some suspicion” as to who the dogs belonged to, but the investigation is ongoing.
“They’d been there awhile,” said Wrangell Chief of Police Doug McCloskey. “They were not tied to the tree. It looks to me like somebody euthanized them … Lead them out there and the leashes were left with them.”
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