NYPD, animal advocates find hundreds of live chickens in Brooklyn, sparing them from slaughter
Police, animal advocates and humane group volunteers rescued nearly 300 live chickens from two abandoned U-Haul trucks in Brooklyn over the weekend. An NYPD spokesperson confirmed that an independent group removed “a large number of chickens” apparently condemned to slaughter and brought them to an “undisclosed sanctuary.” John Di Leonardo, president and executive director of...
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (PIX11) — A rescue dog is being called a hero on Monday after detecting a foul odor coming from a U-Haul truck crammed with dead and dying chickens. Tanuki, a 14-year-old Akita mix, alerted his foster, Julie Seyfield to the truck. Seyfield alerted the NYPD and Humane Long Island, who discovered the [...]
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