Two small puppies are doing well after they were abandoned in a dumpster and rescued.

A passerby heard the mixed-breed terriers inside a box in an Otay Mesa dumpster near State Route 905 and Siempre Viva Road. The good Samaritan took them to a gas station where county Animal Services picked them up.

The four-month-old female dogs have since been cleaned and are healthy.

“It is illegal to abandon an animal, and it is also repugnant,” Animal Services Deputy Director Dan DeSousa said.


In case the puppies were wrongfully taken from their rightful owner and abandoned the county is waiting until Wednesday to make the puppies available for adoption.

If they are put up for adoption, whoever gets them won’t have to pay too much. The county has deal through November where adopters pay one dollar per pound of their new pet.

DeSousa said he recently held the two dogs and said that the little puppies should be pretty cheap; they’re very small and he estimates that they’ll cost around $6 apiece.