{"id":34043,"date":"2025-09-21T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/34043\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:57:09","slug":"14-dogs-rescued-from-horrific-conditions-in-donegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/34043\/","title":{"rendered":"14 dogs rescued from horrific conditions in Donegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen dogs have been seized from a property in West Donegal as part of an animal welfare investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs were found during a search conducted by Garda\u00ed from Glenties Garda Station on Friday in response to concerns under the Animal Health &amp; Welfare Act.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs were being kept in shocking conditions, confined to rusted crates and living in their own filth.<\/p>\n<p>Images from the rescue show the animals, which are all small breeds, in a severely dirty and ungroomed state.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-608196\" class=\"size-full wp-image-608196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/549203808_1116304694015937_3437264454728269391_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1041\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-608196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Donegal<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are currently working with the ISPCA on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said that all of the dogs are now receiving the necessary veterinary attention and will then be handed over to the care of the ISPCA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigations are ongoing,\u201d said a garda statement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-608199\" class=\"size-full wp-image-608199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/549570923_1116304634015943_8952821072105999561_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"806\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-608199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Donegal<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-608198\" class=\"size-full wp-image-608198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/549598565_1116304780682595_7317521291425602841_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-608198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Donegal<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-608197\" class=\"size-full wp-image-608197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/549797301_1116304727349267_749024191396055011_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-608197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dogs were removed from the property on Friday. Photo: An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Donegal<\/p>\n<p>14 dogs rescued from horrific conditions in Donegal was last modified:  September 20th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fourteen dogs have been seized from a property in West Donegal as part of an animal welfare investigation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26752,26753,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-34043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-animal-health-welfare-act","tag-glenties-garda-station","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}