LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A dog found dead in a wire crate next to a dumpster east of the downtown area last month likely died of “heatstroke,” according to the necropsy report.
The report, released on Thursday, said it could not be determined if the male French bulldog mix died before or after he was put in the crate. The outside temperature in the week leading up to the discovery of the dog ranged from 108 to 110 degrees.
The dog was discovered and reported to police on July 11, around 6:20 a.m., on North 27th Street, near Eastern and Sunrise avenues. At that time, police said it appeared the dog was already dead when it was left by the dumpster.
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Las Vegas Metropolitan police released a video a few days later, asking for help identifying two men pushing the kennel to the dumpster.
Veterinarian Mary Ellen Chavez, who works with Hearts Alive Village Animal Clinic, conducted the necropsy, which said the dog was found with its head inside a blue plastic bowl containing “bodily fluids,” and the dog was in an advanced stage of decomposition.
“It’s suspected that the dog died with its face in the bowl,” the report said. “Stomach contents were later found to be empty, leading to conclude the bowl was empty at the time of death.”…