At Least 4 Dogs Killed by Poisoned Meat Patties
Meat patties apparently laced with strychnine were scattered behind houses in Canoga Park, killing four or five dogs in one block and sickening two others, Los Angeles animal control officials said Monday.
Lt. Richard Felosky of the city’s West Valley Animal Care and Control Center said the poisonings took place between 11 p.m. Saturday and 1 a.m. Sunday along a one-block stretch of Kittridge Street near Oakdale Avenue.
“Our experience is that people have a bone to pick with somebody else or the animal and they take it out on the animal,” Felosky said. “This is not normal. It’s just a senseless act.”
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