Pets Are Being Given Up As Owners Struggle To Pay Bills

CBS Miami

July 4, 2022

Two German Shepherds were found all alone at Lori Wilson Dog Park in Cocoa Beach last month. They had been abandoned, and, apart from being a little dehydrated, were otherwise fine and good-natured, but extremely stressed because their humans had deserted them.

They were discovered in the gated dog run by Cocoa Beach Police Department Officer Ian Olsen and his partner, Officer Roy Bond, who were dispatched to the park when somebody called to report the dogs.

Olsen and Bond found no note or name tags with them, but it seemed that whoever left the dogs must have cared for them. There was a tote bag of toys, dry water bowls and collars with the words "Friendly" and "I HAVE EPI"— a pancreatic disease — written on each one.

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