This was really one of the saddest news stories I've personally had to cover. I've covered some pretty sad stuff too. It isn't the top of the list, but it's sure up there on things I'll remember. Yesterday when I was working in the office, a person called in and gave us a news tip. So the cops reporter and I went out to a house in our town. While walking up to it, nothing seemed to wrong, but the house and yard was blocked by overgrown trees, brush and a fence (which part of it had fallen over). The house back away from the road so we started to walk up the drive way and, as we start doing that, we start to see a number of dogs around and trash littering the yard. As we got up the house, there were at least 8 cars parked about and 2 boats, stacks of discarded items and trash piled in one of the cars, and yes more trash and old dog food bags and cans everywhere. Animal control was there as they were trying to capture three dogs who were loose and were seemingly injured. There were even more dogs free in the yard and several tied to fixed points and in a fenced in area.

The loose dogs had run out into the road and motorist had tried to help capture the injured ones in the road and wrangle the loose ones back out of the road when they found this and called Animal Control. They said when they first arrived they saw as many as 50 dogs about, but several ran off into an area behind the house where there is thick brush, so I didn't see that many when I arrived.

As shocking as it all was, that wasn't the worst thing. They found bones in the yard. And not just any bones, but what I'm almost sure are bones of at least three small dogs. Their were at least 3 skulls that we found. Plus, a patch of unidentifiable animal fur in one of the boats. I literally shook with disgust and anger. I really felt bad for each of these dogs. They are looking for the owner last thing we knew. They thought it might be a puppy mill. And I'm hoping charges will be filed.

If you want to see what I'm talking about, here are my photos: http://www.kdhnews.com/multimedia/m.....ogs/index.html