WXYZ has a brief update Sunday on its Friday night video report (below) about apparently neglected dogs atop an east-side Detroit home:
The Michigan Humane Society says that when their rescue team arrived at the home, the dogs had already been removed. . . .
Cruelty investigators . . . could not legally enter the house [originally] because the doors were closed and they could not see any dogs that were dead or in imminent danger.
The animal welfare nonprofit agency presumably obtained court approval for a search, though the station doesn't address that.
Saturday morning (Oct. 5) article:
Two scruffy, neglected dogs could seem like a metaphor for the city where they're struggling to survive. To worried residents, though, they're just fellow east-siders in need of help.
The abandoned two-story house is on Somerset near Yorkshire.
A WXYZ news crew joined a community response outside an abandoned two-story house on Somerset near Yorkshire, the station reports. Its 3:24 video is below.
It was a sight that stopped traffic and our 7 Action News crews. Two dogs appearing to be stuck on the roof of an abandoned house. A closer looks reveals the dogs are getting on top of the house through a hole in the roof.
According to neighbors, squatters left the dogs behind over a week ago.
"I know they're hungry," said Keyonna Green who, in addition to Action News, called the Michigan Humane Society to report the situation. . . .
Cruelty investigators for the Michigan Humane Society could not legally enter the house [Friday] because the doors are closed and they could not see any dogs that were dead or in imminent danger.
Through some first floor windows that were not covered up, investigators were able to see two adult dogs and one puppy. All appeared to be underweight.
Drama followed, as a WXYZ post describes:
About an hour before Action News reporter Kimberly Craig and her photographer, Chris Jones, were about to go live, people identified as the squatters who left the dogs returned to the house, ripped the MHS [Michigan Human Society] notice off of the door and hurled expletives as they sped off in a light green colored van.
Animal cruelty investigators say they'd be back Saturday, according to the station.
