Animal Crisis at the Border so Bad It’s Time to Call up National Guard, US Veteran Says

Dogs including puppies have been found stabbed, suffocated, their mouths taped shut, burned, and starving to death along the southern border.

This dog, one of many left at the southern border, is believed to have been scalded with hot oil. Photo Credit: Big Dog Ranch Rescue

In what a U.S. combat veteran compared to some of the most horrific sights he saw during his deployment in Iraq, thousands of dogs and cats left by illegal immigrants at the Texas border are suffering and dying from extreme exposure or starvation after having been tortured or run over and left to die on roadways.

“There are literally hundreds of dead dogs and cats lying everywhere here,” John Mr. Rourke, a retired Army staff sergeant who did two tours in Iraq, told The Epoch Times. Some of them, he said, have been attacked with machetes, others have been shot, while others, he said, are dying while giving birth to litters of puppies and kittens, which he and others say are strewn all along the 400-mile U.S. border.