Police investigating report of alleged animal cruelty on farm north of Oshawa

SCUGOG, Ont. – Police are investigating a case of alleged animal cruelty after a dead cow was found on a farm east of Toronto.

Durham Regional Police say investigators and a local veterinarian attended the farm on Regional Road 19 in Scugog, Ont., Tuesday night.

The report comes after an animal welfare group based in King City, Ont., posted video online purporting to show animals living in squalid conditions on a farm in Durham Region.

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In a Facebook post Tuesday afternoon, Dog Tales Rescue and Sanctuary said it had reached out to the province’s new animal cruelty hotline, but it did not hear back.

A spokesman for Ontario’s solicitor general said in a statement Wednesday that an animal inspector has been assigned to the case.

Last month, a 24-hour hotline for reporting animal cruelty was launched in the province.

The initiative came after the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals announced it would be getting out of enforcing the province’s animal welfare laws.