A stray dog walks around a commercial parking lot by the Dallas Bay Bi-Lo in Hixson where local residents had been feeding stray dogs that lived here for months. Recently, one female dog and her puppies were rescued and two others died, according to shop workers.HOW TO HELP
Donations for the medical costs of Molle and her eight puppies may be made at Middle Valley Animal Hospital, 6310 Hixson Pike, Hixson, Tenn.
The Dallas Bay strays are dead. Two of them, at least.
Clerks at First Tennessee Bank in Lakesite saw a Humane Educational Society truck come and get the bodies of the dogs Thursday.
“They were kind of everybody’s dogs,” Beth Gilliam, a Lakesite resident, said Tuesday about the two stray dogs, known for hanging around the Dallas Bay Bi-Lo.
She thinks the dogs were poisoned.