{"id":337100,"date":"2026-07-11T18:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337100\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T18:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:02:19","slug":"men-arrested-after-dogs-pigeons-found-suffering-in-sweltering-u-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337100\/","title":{"rendered":"Men arrested after dogs, pigeons found suffering in sweltering U-Haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) &#8211; Florida authorities said two men were arrested after deputies found two dogs and two pigeons in distress in the back of a sweltering U-Haul box truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies were responding to a tip from a passerby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies said the dogs were found panting heavily and lying in their own urine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies said a 70-pound pit bull mix was struggling to stand, while an 80-pound English bulldog could not stand at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The father and son said they were moving and put the dogs in the cargo box because their other vehicle was too crowded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies said they also found two pigeons in a sealed storage box with no air holes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two men were arrested for animal cruelty and later released on bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Meanwhile, the four animals were taken for emergency treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff warned people not to leave anything with a heartbeat unattended in a vehicle, especially during this heat wave.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) &#8211; Florida authorities said two men were arrested after deputies found two dogs and two pigeons in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10238,138795,138794,138792,28,30,29,85857,138793,116922],"class_list":["post-337100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-animal-abuse","tag-dogs-found-in-hot-u-haul","tag-dogs-in-hot-vehicles","tag-dogs-left-in-hot-u-haul","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-heatwave","tag-pigeons-found-in-hot-u-haul","tag-summer-heat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}