The Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control is investigating whether a series of attacks on dogs are connected after a fifth incident was reported this week, officials said.
On Monday, a woman in Lancaster called the agency and reported that she found a stray pit bull June 6 that was burned, but alive. Though she took the dog to a veterinarian to be treated, she didn’t think to alert authorities until media coverage revealed that other dogs in the area were also being burned, said Derek Brown, deputy director of L.A. County animal control.
Over the last two months five dogs – four pit bulls and a golden retriever – have been found burned. Four of those have been in the Lancaster area and one was in Kern County, Brown said.
The injuries were of similar size and occurred in similar areas, leading authorities to consider it may be the same person attacking the animals. County veterinarians could not determine what kind of burns the dogs were suffering from but two of the canines were so severely injured they had to be euthanized.
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