Police: Crate of puppies found abandoned near Westside Road in Healdsburg

Healdsburg police found a dog crate with seven puppies locked inside Wednesday morning on the side of Westside Road near Bacchus Landing. A concerned person called police after spotting the crate and another puppy running near the road. Officers arrived and found the door to the crate fastened with zip ties. Police spotted the loose puppy but were unable to catch it. Officers alerted Sonoma County Animal Services of the discovery in 7:45 a.m. call, said Beth Wyatt, operations manager for the agency. The seven puppies, Australian cattle dog mixes, were first taken to the Healdsburg Animal Shelter before being transferred to the county shelter about 9:40 a.m. County animal services officers set a trap in the area where the crate was found to catch the loose puppy. It had not been captured by noon Wednesday, Wyatt said. Neither county Animal Services nor Healdsburg police have opened an investigation, but Wyatt said she was “100% sure” the dogs were abandoned. “It’s hard to believe someone could forget a crate full of dogs on the road like that,” she said. As for the puppies, “with every animal that we get, we evaluate them,” Wyatt said. “If these dogs don’t have any
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