Owners of pets left to freeze in Texas winter storm may face criminal charges
Rebecca Hennes, Staff writer
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A dog sits on a wooden pallet outside a house that SPCA investigators came to check on while doing an animal welfare check Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021 in Houston. With frigid temperatures forecast in Texas and the Houston area, the SPCA investigators made their rounds to various parts of the city to check on animals and their well being, and to also give out blankets and give animal owners tips on keeping their animals from the freezing weather.Brett Coomer/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
Pets are freezing to death in Texas: Cops slam residents for abandoning dogs, cats and pigs in the cold without food or water with cruelty cases surging
Six dogs were left outside of unnamed auto body shop in Southwest Houston on Monday, including one that was found dead and partially covered in snow
The five remaining dogs were placed in the care of the Houston SPCA veterinary team while a hearing for their owner was scheduled at a later date
On Thursday, deputies with the Harris County Animal Cruelty Task Force seized eight dogs and a pig from a Crosby home on the 18000 block of Oak Lane
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Owners of pets left to freeze in winter storm may face criminal charges, Harris County official says
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A dog sits on a wooden pallet outside a house that SPCA investigators came to check on while doing an animal welfare check Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021 in Houston. With frigid temperatures forecast in Texas and the Houston area, the SPCA investigators made their rounds to various parts of the city to check on animals and their well being, and to also give out blankets and give animal owners tips on keeping their animals from the freezing weather.Brett Coomer/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
Water quality technicians for the City of Sugar Land collected water quality samples and transported them to an approved lab for water quality testing. (Photo from Facebook)Â
While temperatures rose above freezing Thursday, officials across the county urged drivers to exercise caution as the National Weather Service issued a hard freeze warning from midnight Friday to 9 a.m.Â
Wind chill temperatures are expected to dip between 15 to as low as 5 degrees in some parts of Southeast Texas.Â
As of 6:19 p.m. Thursday, 99.4 percent of CenterPoint Energy customers had their power restored, leaving 15,813 without electricity.
According to CenterPointâs outage tracker, the areas most affected by outages in Fort Bend County are near 1st Street and Highway 59 in Rosenberg and in the Trammels neighborhood of Missouri City south of Highway 6.Â