Man Charged in Starved Pit Bull's Death

0:00It's April 24th. You're listening to Hartford News today. AI-powered local news. I'm Cory with the story. A 32-year-old guy from Waterbury, Connecticut named Dane Punner faces animal cruelty and illegal dumping charges after a severely starved. Pitbull mixed dog turned up dead on a wool-claw walking trail back in January. The one-to-three-year-old female had no chip or tags and weighed next to nothing, scoring just a one-out-of-10 on the body condition scale. This kicked off the probe on January 9th when Hiker spotted the dog near Woodtick Road. Around the same time, two super skinny puppies showed up at a Shelton vet clinic on January 6th. One got put down, but the other pulled through, and DNA tests proved the trail dog was their mom. Investigators grilled punter multiple times. At first he said he found the dogs and was helping out, but he later owned up to being their owner and admitting he couldn't pay for their care and just. Not the dead mom on the trail. Necropsees on the dead dog and puppy showed blockages from what looked like a corncove

1:04and bedding stuff. All signs of starvation-driven pica, behavior. Punters now locked up on $200,000 in bonds, facing more cruelty counts from Waterbury cops too. Shout-out to Wolcott Animal Control, multiple police departments, and groups like Desmond's Army for teaming up on this first-ever DNA-linked cruelty, Casing Connecticut. Justice for Windsor and her pups came through real persistence and cutting-edge work.