{"id":94121,"date":"2025-07-26T12:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94121\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T12:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:56:12","slug":"critically-ill-puppies-left-abandoned-in-a-box-at-philadelphia-animal-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94121\/","title":{"rendered":"Critically ill puppies left abandoned in a box at Philadelphia animal shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Two sick puppies abandoned in a box outside an animal shelter in North Philadelphia <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/e5d6c8fcc8435c14f7ce72801793d1ff.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/video\/two-sick-puppies-abandoned-in-a-box-outside-an-animal-shelter-in-north-philadelphia\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Two sick puppies abandoned in a box outside an animal shelter in North Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>          01:52<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania SPCA says two three-month-old puppies in &#8220;bad shape&#8221; were left outside a Philadelphia shelter on a hot afternoon, and now are searching for the people who dropped them off.<\/p>\n<p>Staff made the discovery around 2 p.m. Thursday at ACCT Philly&#8217;s shelter on Hunting Park Avenue near Front Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The puppies unfortunately had wounds that were old, some that were necrotic already, as well as maggots throughout their bodies. So, in very bad shape,&#8221; said Gillian Kocher, PSPCA&#8217;s director of public relations.<\/p>\n<p>After the puppies were found in a box, calls were made to the PSPCA&#8217;s animal law enforcement team, and the puppies were taken to the PSPCA&#8217;s hospital. One dog remains there but another was transported to an emergency veterinary center.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/suspects-who-abandoned-puppies-philadelphia.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"suspects-who-abandoned-puppies-philadelphia.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>The puppies are believed to be a shepherd mix and about three months old, but their age is difficult to determine.<\/p>\n<p>PSPCA is now asking for the public&#8217;s help locating two people seen on surveillance video turning into the parking lot and getting out of their vehicle with what appears to be a cardboard box, which they left behind. PSPCA says the video could assist in protecting other puppies potentially in harm&#8217;s way, and to learn more about the puppies who were left behind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The injuries that these puppies had didn&#8217;t happen yesterday or the day before, it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s been going on for awhile, so if there are other puppies in this litter, it&#8217;s possible they might also be heading in this direction,&#8221; Kocher said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the PSPCA cruelty hotline at 866-801-7722 or email cruelty@pspca.org.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/joe-brandt\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe  Brandt<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Joe Brandt has been a digital content producer for CBS News Philadelphia since 2022. He is a Temple University graduate and was born and raised in Pitman, NJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two sick puppies abandoned in a box outside an animal shelter in North Philadelphia Two sick puppies abandoned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,24144,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-94121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-animal-cruelty","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114919649148863952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}