An autopsy report stated that the puppies had not eaten for two days before they died.
Police officers recognized Berry’s name from a June incident in which they found a wet, dead puppy in a room at a different hotel after he checked out. Officers who ran Berry’s name found that he had two prior animal cruelty cases. In one of them, an active warrant was out for Berry in connection with a pit bull found dead in the bathroom of DoubleTree Suites in June 2021. The pit bull appeared to be ‘strangled or partially drowned’ before dying, a veterinarian from the Austin Animal Center said.INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOUR PET: A study at UCSD claims that your dog can genuinely get jealous when they see you display affection for another creature.
If you have an older dog with tooth troubles, add a little water or chicken broth to his or her kibble and microwave for 20 to 30 seconds.
‘During those 24-48 hours, the dog would have been slowly dying and experiencing an unimaginable amount of pain and suffering, until its eventual death,’ according to the affidavit.
The suspect’s girlfriend told police officers that he frequently found puppies and dogs from Facebook. ‘But then they would disappear,’ the affidavit states.
‘Berry told her that he gave them away or that they ran away, but that his stories about the dogs was always “fuzzy”,’ cops said. Berry, who is from Buda, a part of the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metropolitan area, was arrested earlier this week.INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOUR PET: Having a dog in the house means more bacteria enters the home and gets inside the occupants (one study found “dog-related biodiversity” is especially high on pillowcases.) In turn, people with dogs seem to get ill less frequently and less severely than people with no pets.
He faces two misdemeanor counts of cruelty to non-livestock animals in the puppies’ deaths and a third-degree felony cruelty to animals charge in the pit bull’s death, according to court records.
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