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This is a story that had immersed last month, and had generated global outrage. Prosecutors in Puerto Rico said criminal charges will be filed in the slaughter of dozens of dogs and cats seized last month from a housing project  and allegedly thrown from a bridge. They said the findings of an investigation into the killings would be released within a few weeks.

Demands for justice increased this week after an Associated Press investigation showed inhumane animal killings have been routine in Puerto Rico for many years.

The investigation, which includes eyewitness accounts from two former employees of two  companies, showed that hundreds of unwanted animals have been tossed off bridges, buried alive, injected with unknown substances while being restrained with a noose on a stick, and then “slammed” into waiting vans and other inhumane ways of disposal for years, despite promises to deliver adoptable strays to shelters and humanely euthanize the rest.

In the lawsuit of the most recent action, a government contractor, Animal Control Solutions, is accused of throwing the animals from a bridge instead of delivering them to an animal shelter or humanely euthanizing them. Only a couple of some 80 pets survived the 50-foot fall from the bridge, some with serious life threatening injuries.

According to an interview with an agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, drugs must be administered by a veterinarian or another authorized person in an approved location, such as a veterinary clinic.

We will keep you updated on this gruesome and disgusting tragedy. Although we don’t pledge to be much of a ‘breaking’ news source, stories like this need to be seen and heard by as many animal lovers as possible. Stay tuned.

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