Police investigate strange odour at Guelph apartment, lay animal cruelty charges
Posted Apr 4, 2017 12:15:29 PM.
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Animal cruelty charges have been laid after Guelph Police were called to an apartment building to investigate a strange odour.
Police say they were called to the Vanier Drive building on Monday afternoon as the manager was concerned about an ‘overwhelming smell’ coming from one of the apartments, and believed the tenant inside may have died.
Police say they opened the door to the apartment and observed ‘squalid conditions’, which included dozens of piles of rotting feces, and a small white Samoyed puppy.
Police say the homeowner was found unharmed – but the dog was clearly suffering from neglect, and was unable to pass its own waste because it was so matted.
The Guelph Humane Society was called to take care of the dog, and 19-year-old Zhenlin Lius Huang has been charged with mischief and causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
