Does anyone know more about this?

 

Dead donkeys dumped in Jackson

 Amanda Oglesby, @OglesbyAPP11:01 p.m. EST December 10, 2014

 

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JACKSON – Some township residents made a grisly discovery last week when they found the corpses of two donkeys in a utility right-of-away.

The donkeys appeared to have been intentionally shot, said attorney Jean Cipriani of the law firm of Gilmore and Monahan, which represents the township. Cipriani said she viewed a cellphone photograph of the animals' bodies taken by a Jackson resident.

Residents said the carcasses were found near East Veterans Highway and Bennetts Mills Road.

Jackson's Animal Control officers are trying to determine who the donkeys belonged to, Cipriani said. A woman who answered the phone Tuesday in the Animal Control office deferred questions to the township's business administrator, who deferred the matter to Cipriani.

Jackson Police Lt. Steven Laskiewicz initially said no calls on the matter had been reported to police since the end of November, but on further investigation said that a call about a dead animal was received on Dec. 1. Animal Control officers, not police, responded to the incident, Laskiewicz said in an email Thursday.

The New Jersey Department of Agriculture's humane standards permit people to euthanize livestock by gunshot. Dead animals must be removed from contact with live ones within 24 hours, said Lynne Richmond, spokeswoman for the Department of Agriculture. The department recommends dead livestock be composted, but that is not a requirement, she said.

Livestock carcasses discovered off farmland are treated no differently than other wild animal remains and roadkill, said Larry Ragonese, spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection. Their disposal would fall under a municipality's rules on carcass and waste disposal, he said.

Amanda Oglesby: 732-557-5701; [email protected]

 

so weird...

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