Pine Bluff Police Department officials say they are taking corrective measures after a photograph showing dead dogs on the back of an Pine Bluff Animal Control truck was posted on social media.
Lt. David Price said an animal control officer was on the way to the landfill with dogs that had been euthanized when she was called to pick up dogs that had been run over. While attempting to pick up that dog, the female employee received a cut on her hand from exposed bone and had to go to Jefferson Regional Medical Center for treatment.
The original animals that were going to be taken to the landfill were covered with a tarp, Price said, and when another animal control officer got the truck, he attempted to cover the animals that had been picked up in the road with a secondary tarp, which blew off, then the truck ran out of gas in the White Hall area.
Price said Pine Bluff has an arrangement with the landfill to bury animals that are euthanized because the city does not have an incinerator, and the animals are buried in a separate area of the landfill.
“It was not our intent or the intent of the officers to offend anybody, but we have got to travel to the disposal site,” Price said.