Aug 22, 2008 7:00 am US/Central
Sheep Found In Man's Auto Shop, Taken To Shelter
ORLAND PARK, Ill. (STNG) ―
Police turned over a pair of sheep to the Animal Welfare League in Chicago Ridge after Worth officers took the animals from an Orland Park man's auto repair shop.
Sanad Abdalla, 24, of Orland Park, was charged with misdemeanor cruelty to animals and given a ticket Saturday for storage of livestock within the village, police said.
Police responded to a burglar alarm shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday at Abe's First Auto Repair, 6500 W. 111th St. in Worth. Police found the doors locked, but when the officer looked inside the shop he saw two black sheep with their hind legs tied together, police said.
Abdalla told police that he had bought the sheep at an auction earlier in the day and had left them at the shop while he went to dinner. He said he planned to take them to a friend's farm, police said.
Instead, police took the sheep to the Animal Welfare League.
The league's president Linda Estrada said Abdalla intended to eat the sheep.
"It's very sad," she said. "We have many grocery stores if somebody wants lamb chops."
She said animals should be treated with respect and dignity even if they are going to become food.
"You don't tie sheep up where they can't walk because you want to take them to a farm," she said.
-- SouthtownStar
(Source: Sun-Times News Group Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2008. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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