Emaciated dogs found chained

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

From the road, Kelly Nutter could see one sickly dog on the overgrown rural lot near Pacific Junction, Iowa.

Once she got farther back on the property, she realized she was dealing with more than two dozen pit bulls, tethered with heavy chains to an axle buried in the dirt.

The dogs -- most emaciated, dehydrated and sickly -- were seized by Nutter, who serves as the shelter manager for the Loess Hills Humane Society and as an animal control officer for Mills County. Nutter, assisted by other shelter and county employees, found 27 pit bulls on the property near Pacific Junction.

Two of the dogs, sick with pneumonia, were euthanized. The rest are recovering in the fledgling shelter, which opened last summer.

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