From the archives: This story was last updated in June 2019.
When two women went walking near a dried-up river near Messina, Sicily, what they saw shocked them to the core. There, lying next to the carcass of a dead calf that had been eaten by vermin and insects, they saw a black garbage bag. They faintly heard an animal crying inside.When they opened up the bag, they were devastated. It was a dog, whose legs had been cruelly bound with electrical wire and had been left for dead.