Crosses Placed In Memory Of Dumped Dogs Along Dowdy Ferry Road

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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Ninety-one dead animals, mostly dogs, have been found along the side of a single road in Dallas in the past eight months.

Saturday evening, volunteers placed crosses with a number and a date along Dowdy Ferry Road.  The goal of the crosses is to get people to stop and think.

"There has to be a story here. There has to be," says animal advocate Stephanie Timko. "What's going on?"

Last summer, Timko and a ground of volunteers started tracking and documenting every dumped animal, all 91 they found along the road.

"And the story we actually found out is that our city has an animal abuse problem. And it's on the spectrum from neglect to outright abuse and torture," said Timko.

Some had been shot, starved or strangled.

"We found a couple dogs in a crate that were tossed over an embankment that were locked in a crate so they would have starved to death," said Timko.

Last fall, the city of Dallas put up signs and cameras and announced a renewed effort to clean up the chronic dump site.

Timko along with other animal advocate groups say they are working with the city to come up with a coordinated plan for animal abuse.

They say right now people don't even know who to turn to report animal abuse which often leads many people to simply not report it.

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