According to Indio Police officer Ben Guitron, the two deer were drifting in water current westbound. He also says it appeared as though they were exhausted and had been in the canal for an extended period of time.
Riverside County animal shelters are celebrating. “Everything is empty, not one animal in kennel b, and it was full before all of this happened,” says a happy Marisa Sanabria the supervisor at the Riverside County Animal Campus in Thousand Palms. Kennel b is empty, the cat kennels are empty, and most of kennel a is […]
Jose and Lourdes Vega have been looking for a new best friend for a while. “Our last one we lost about five years ago,” says Jose, referring to their beloved Jack Russell Terrier named Stradivarius. They thought they might get lucky on Saturday, the day of free pet adoptions at the Coachella Valley Animal Campus […]
A report of a poisonous snake slithering across the lawn of a Woodcrest home turned out to be no cause for alarm, but it did add a little comic relief to a Riverside County animal control officer’s routine, officials said Monday. According to Department of Animal Services spokesman John Welsh, the agency received a call […]
A local nonprofit donated thousands of dollars to rescue groups that stepped up to help animal services workers with dozens of dogs taken from a woman suspected of dumping a litter of puppies in a Coachella dumpster, Riverside County Animal Services announced Monday. The Animal Solutions Konnection foundation donated $4,400 to groups that took in […]
A Coachella woman suspected of dumping seven puppies in a trash dumpster pleaded not guilty Tuesday to felony animal cruelty charges. Deborah Sue Culwell, 54, is accused of leaving the 3-day-old puppies in a bin outside a Napa Auto Parts store at 49251 Grapefruit Blvd. on April 18. Security surveillance video from the location allegedly […]
