{"id":439597,"date":"2026-02-22T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439597\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:35:11","slug":"police-urged-to-dig-at-billericay-site-where-dead-dogs-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439597\/","title":{"rendered":"Police urged to dig at Billericay site where dead dogs found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Olde took the &#8220;very hard decision&#8221; to give his Tibetan mastiff, Tiny, to Save A Paw in December 2024, after her behaviour worsened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He feared she might harm his children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the 40-year-old dropped Tiny off, he was surprised to see Rahman was having a patio laid in winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am a strong believer that if they dig up that patio there will be hundreds of dogs under there, 100%,&#8221; said Olde, from Maidstone, Kent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Because of how many dogs died there, there has to be more. If we were dealing with humans, the whole house would&#8217;ve been torn down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police initially found 37 dead dogs at the rescue centre, but discovered four more during a later search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olde took the &#8220;very hard decision&#8221; to give his Tibetan mastiff, Tiny, to Save A Paw in December&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-439597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}