ATTLEBORO — An animal rights organization is offering a reward of up to $5,000 to find a driver who ran over a family of geese on West Street (Route 123).
PETA is offering the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction on cruelty charges of those responsible for killing two adult geese and three goslings as they attempted to cross near the city water treatment plant around 4:15 p.m. Friday.
Witnesses reported the driver of a gray truck grew impatient while waiting for the geese to cross the busy road and stepped on the gas, hitting and killing all of them.
Friends of the Attleboro Animal Shelter posted about the incident on social media and asked for help from people who might have information.
PETA said in a press release Tuesday that it’s hoping for help from the public to solve the case “before anyone else falls victim to this violent person.”
“Geese mate for life, protect their families, and don’t deserve to be mowed down by someone with a dangerously short fuse,” PETA Vice President Colleen O’Brien said. “PETA is asking anyone with information to come forward so that the person responsible for this heinous act can be held accountable and stopped from hurting anyone else.”
Anyone with pertinent information should contact Animal Control at 774-203-1867 or 774-203-1868.