I'd have no problem doing the same to them! I know that's not the way to solve this kind of inhumane treatment of animals...and the children they also do it to..but truly..I think I'd go nuts on them if I saw this happening.

 

 

Traffickers sewed heroin bags in pups' stomachs
Bogota, Colombia
January 6, 2005
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A member of Colombia's National Police holds a rescued puppy whose stomach contained two bags of liquid heroin.
Photo: AFP

A member of Colombia's National Police holds a rescued puppy whose stomach contained two bags of liquid heroin.
Photo: AFP

Police discovered six dogs with bags of heroin stitched into their stomachs during a raid on a farmhouse in north-west Colombia.

An anonymous telephone caller reported to authorities that drug traffickers were using the farmhouse on the outskirts of Medellin, Colombia's second-largest city, to produce heroin bound for the United States and Europe, police said.

Investigators initially found seven plastic bags containing liquid heroin, surgical equipment and six Rottweilers and labradors with scars on their bellies, police said in a statement on Tuesday. The suspected traffickers had fled.

Ultrasound scans revealed bags of liquid heroin hidden inside the living animals. Police said traffickers planned to retrieve the drug once the dogs had passed customs abroad.

After performing X-rays, police identified 10 more bags filled with heroin implanted in the animals' abdomens. Veterinarians tried to remove the bags of heroin, but three of the animals died, said Medellin police spokesman Gabriel Salazar.

"Today, criminals have shown they are ready to commit acts of extreme cruelty to make easy money," the police statement said.

Using animals for smuggling is unusual, although drug smugglers often rely on couriers to swallow condoms full of drugs and one Colombian woman was once found with cocaine surgically implanted in her buttocks. Last year, police at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport found 21 canisters of cocaine stitched into the stomachs of two labradors who had come off a flight from Colombia.

Colombia is the world's largest exporter of cocaine and a major supplier of heroin to the US.

 

 

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