WARWICK − The body of a Siberian husky that died from heat stroke was discovered this summer at Rocky Point State Park.
Underweight and apparently middle-aged, the dog had been wrapped in a sheet, placed in a trash bag and dumped off a trail.
The Warwick Animal Shelter is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or people responsible for the dog’s death.
“We really want to be able to find whoever did this,” said Ann Corvin, director of the Warwick Animal Shelter.
The dog was found Aug. 9, and a necropsy showed it had died of heat stroke, the shelter said in a Facebook post.
“The outside temperature on that day was in the low 80s so it appears as though the dog was either in a car or another enclosed structure such as a shed where the temperature would have reached a dangerous and ultimately fatal level,” the post says.
“Chalk and crayons were also found in the trash bag so there may have been children living in the home,” the post says.
The post includes two photographs of the dead dog, as well as a photo of the sheet that had been wrapped around the animal.