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<\/p>\nOfficials with the Pennsylvania SPCA are hoping to identify two individuals who, they claim, abandoned a dog suffering from “severe, untreated medical conditions,” at the organization’s North Philly headquarters on Monday. <\/p>\n
According to officials with the PSPCA, the incident happened on Monday, July 13, 2026, when two individuals drove into the PSPCA’s parking lot along the 300 block of East Erie Avenue — parking illegally, the PSPCA noted — and exited the vehicle while carrying a pink crate.<\/p>\n
The pair, captured on camera, then carried the crate to a vestibule between the interior and exterior doors for the facility, where they left the injured animal before they fled the scene without alerting staff. <\/p>\n
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A dog rests in a crate after, officials say, it was abandoned at a PSPCA shelter in North Philly on Monday. <\/p>\n
When workers at the PSPCA discovered the crate, they found a dog that, officials said was “suffering from severe, untreated medical conditions, including severe matting \u2014 including his front limbs, tail, rear limbs, and torso.”<\/p>\n
“The matting on his right front leg was so severe it caused a strangulation wound, an open, ulcerated injury that left him unable to bear weight on that limb,” PSPCA officials said in a statement. “He also had a flea infestation.”<\/p>\n
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A PSPCA worker displays an example of an injury that was found on a dog that, they say, was abandoned at a North Philly facility on Monday. <\/p>\n
However, officials said the animal was quiet and gentle and allowed rescuers to treat his injuries without incident. <\/p>\n
The animal — which PSPCA workers have nicknamed Schwarber — is currently receiving care from the PSPCA’s hospital staff and an active animal cruelty investigation is underway, officials said.<\/p>\n
Anyone who may recognize these individuals, the vehicle involved or may have information in this incident is asked to contact the PSPCA’s Animal Cruelty Hotline at 866-601-7722.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials with the Pennsylvania SPCA are hoping to identify two individuals who, they claim, abandoned a dog suffering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[221,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-246149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-north-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}