NEW YORK (1010 WINS/ WCBS 880) – A few days after a Long Island man was sentenced for fatally shooting a dog, three bulls were discovered on Monday at an adjacent property and will be placed into their new home in New Jersey.
The bulls, Steve, Artie, and Robert, were discovered alongside ten piglets, lacking food and water, at a vacant property adjoining the slaughterhouse during a mission to save a domestic goose that had escaped from the property of the convicted animal killer Carlos Lauro, 76, of Riverhead, according to Humane Long Island.
“They were out there shivering just in a pile together,” John Di Leonardo, anthrozoologist and executive director of Humane Long Island told 1010 WINS. “They had the little cracks on their noses from the cold. They were very hungry but they are recovering well.”
Humane Long Island believes that someone tried to steal the bulls by cutting a hole in the fence on Saturday.
The investigation into Lauro began after Blitzkrieg, a one-year-old German Shepherd, was brought to VCA Veterinary Hospital in Westbury with a paralysis-inducing gunshot wound. Authorities found that Lauro had also killed another German Shepherd, Cranky, in a similarly brutal manner. Eight surviving dogs and numerous other animals, including goats, pigs, cows, chickens, and geese, were found on Lauro's property, along with multiple deceased animals.
Lauro pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a German Shepherd and was sentenced to a year in prison along with a 20-year ban on animal ownership on Jan. 18.
The bulls are now set to be moved to their new forever home at Tamerlaine Sanctuary & Preserve in Montague, New Jersey, on Tuesday.
Tamerlaine Sanctuary & Preserve, where the bulls will be relocated, is dedicated to the rescue and care of abused, neglected, and discarded farmed animals.
"If the rescue of these sweet bulls or the deaths of dogs Blitzkrieg and Cranky move you, Humane Long Island urges you to reconsider the animals on your plate and go vegan,” Leonardo said. “When it comes to the capacity to suffer and feel pain and fear, dogs are no different from chickens, goats, and cows."