While many were celebrating the holiday weekend with their families, Melissa McMillan spent the weekend picking up dead and sick dogs from a public park in Houston, Texas
"The German shepherd was eating the remains of a dead dog that was dumped in a bag along the fence," said McMillan, founder of Peaceful Pit Bull Humane Society.
McMillan said she was called to Melrose Park by a concerned resident after the woman spotted a dead dog in a trash bag.
"I didn't expect it to be this bad, especially in front of a Harris County shelter," said McMillan.
McMillan said the part that upsets her the most is that the abused dogs are being dumped right across the street from a county animal shelter.
She said that the county told her they can't do anything about it, because the park falls under the city of Houston.
So, it'll be up to the city shelter, BARC, to rescue these animals.
Another dumped dog was shaking, severely dehydrated, and could barely breath.
The worst part, the roughly five-pound dog had a harness, which means at one point it had an owner.
That owner ditched it with a ten-foot metal chain attached to its collar, making it hard for the dog to even move.
McMillan is looking for donations for foster families for the eight dogs she has rescued so far.
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