Texas woman who was asked to watch cancer-stricken grandma's dogs starves them to death and hides bodies in garage
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS: A young Texas woman was asked to watch her grandmother's two dogs and house while the homeowner battled cancer. Now she has been arrested for allegedly starving the animals to death and leaving their bodies inside a garage for two weeks before authorities discovered the corpses.
Lani Elizabeth Taylor, 22, was arrested by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office after authorities reportedly spent all of December tracking her down. Taylor has been accused of neglecting her grandmother's two dogs, starving them to death and hiding their bodies in a garage for weeks.
She has been charged with cruelty to non-livestock animals, which carries a fine of $10,000 fine and up to two years in jail, according to the Daily Mail. Taylor's bail has been set at $10,000.
My San Antonio reports that according to a police affidavit, authorities responded to a residence in the 1500 block of Firwick Drive, where they discovered two dead dogs inside wire kennels in the home's garage. The dogs reportedly were extremely malnourished and the veterinarian who performed necropsies on their corpses declared that they "suffered severely until they passed". The canines allegedly got neither food nor water and were forced to resort to desperate measures to stay alive.
"Based on the photos of the scene there was no food or water present, but also no feces/urine in the kennels where the canines were found. Trapped canines will ingest their own feces/urine in order to survive for as long as possible to survive," the veterinarian's report revealed.
Both dogs reportedly had flea dirt present in their fur and had severely overgrown nails. The affidavit states that both dogs had already been dead for at least two weeks before they were discovered by authorities.
Taylor was reportedly tasked with caring for the house and the dogs while her grandmother, the homeowner, was in hospice care battling cancer. The Daily Mail reports that Taylor's grandmother asked the young woman to watch the dogs, find them a new home or surrender them to a shelter, but she chose to simply neglect them instead, leading to their gruesome deaths.