An Arkansas animal shelter is devastated and angry after they say someone targeted their dogs in an overnight attack,
and it’s not the first time.
Early Wednesday morning, employees at the Humane Society of the Delta say they showed up to find a bloodbath.
"You could hear the fighting," said care and operations manager Reta Merritt.
Eight dogs had been released from their pens, and some thrown into pens with other dogs.
Shelter workers believe whoever did it brought their own dogs along and used the shelter pups as “bait” to practice dog fighting.
Almost every dog was hurt, but Rubio – a hound mix who’s at least 10 years old – got the worst of it.
"He probably has 20-plus puncture wounds in his head, his throat, his back," Merritt said. "On his side, he’s got a hole about the size of a quarter that you can see in."
Five years ago, several dogs were hurt in a similar incident. And in 2016, three dogs were killed the same way.