ALOHA, Ore. — An Oregon sheriff’s spokesman says a 19-year-old woman dumped more than two dozen guinea pigs into a ditch because she didn’t know what to do with them.
The Oregonian reported that Washington County sheriff’s Sgt. Bob Ray says the woman from the west Portland suburb of Aloha was arrested Wednesday for investigation of first-degree animal neglect and animal abandonment. Ray says the little animals had tags that linked them to the woman.
The spokesman says the sheriff’s office got a call Monday from an animal hospital that took the guinea pigs in and is caring for them.
Southwest Animal Hospital receptionist Kate Brownlie says guinea pigs were found between Saturday and Tuesday. Some were babies and may have been born in the ditch. Some have died.
A passer-by spotted the first ones.
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