Animal cruelty investigators are looking into several pigeons found in north Edmonton with their legs zip\u002Dtied and heads lopped off, police say.
Edmonton Police Service received a call about the dead birds Monday morning and later found them near a walking path in the area of 82 Street and Crystallina Nera Drive, spokesman Scott Pattison said in an email. Pattison also said the person who reported the scene encountered the bound and decapitated birds a day earlier, but he did not answer questions about the number of pigeons found, or whether they were wild or domesticated by publication time.
“Cruelty towards animals of any kind is unacceptable, and we are grateful that a community member cared enough about the welfare of these birds to report it to the proper authorities,” Sunley said. “It’s important that we speak up when animals are treated inhumanely so they can be helped and future acts of cruelty prevented.”Article content
Neighbourhood resident Andrew Jacobs told Postmedia he discovered the birds on Sunday and reported it to police the following day. The remains included six white birds with coloured markings on their feathers, he said.of a suspect stealing 45 pigeons from a backyard enclosure three days earlier. The birds were reportedly competition pigeons worth about $13,500, police said.and they arrested a 32-year-old male on Nov. 4 who was charged with theft over $5,000.
Police have also been investigating several other animal cruelty incidents recently reported in Edmonton.
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