Eight dogs were found abandoned on Rice Mill Road in southeast Richmond, near Ironwood, Saturday and are now in a Surrey animal shelter.
A woman named Yuana (who wouldn’t provide her last name), the founder and director of Dhana Metta Rescue Society, said a friend found the dogs stuffed in a crate and brought them to her.
Yuana said she has contacted the Richmond Animal Protection Society to provide information on the dogs, which are on a two-week “stray hold” until they are reunited with their owners or put into a foster home for behavioural assessments.
Yuana described the abandonment as “really weird” considering some of the dogs looked cared for.
“They’re pretty friendly,” she said.
However, Yuana speculated the dogs may have been used to breed puppies as two showed signs of recent pregnancy. “Perhaps things got out of control,” she said.
The dogs include two Tibetan terriers, two Lhasa Apsos, three Shih Tzus and one Lhasa-Shih Tsu cross. For more information, contact Yuana via DhanaMettaRescueSociety.org.
