Dead animals cropping up in North Richmond

Resident Cathy Cooper says she’s found five dead animals on her property alone. But the strange thing is, none of them had trauma to their bodies and all appeared to be healthy.

Cooper tells us, “I’m a physician, so I thought these animals aren’t traumatized. They look perfectly fine. It really looked like maybe they were poisoned.”

Cooper decided to get online with neighborhood news groups to see if anyone else noticed a problem and that’s when a pattern emerged. She tells us residents reported a total of six dead squirrels, five chipmunks, and 10 to 15 birds in the last two weeks.

We are told all of the animals were found in Laburnum Park, Ginter Park and Bellevue along roads with large grassy medians…

…The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries issued a request to residents to bag and ice any freshly dead animals so that they can determine what’s killing them.