By Joe Johnson
An Athens man is facing felony charges after he abandoned a pair of dogs in his apartment while he was out of state for over a month.
One of the animals reportedly died in the owner’s absence.
Police said that on Monday they conducted a welfare check on Highland Park Drive after a neighbor reported a foul odor was coming from the apartment of a man who hadn’t been seen in over a month.
Looking through a window officers saw trash strewn around inside the apartment and a dog thst was jumping up at the window.
The officers also smelled the foul odor and so they forced entry into the residence where they discovered a second dog, which was deceased.
County Animal Services took possession of the surviving dog and the deceased one was taken for a necropsy at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine.
The absent tenant and owner of the dogs was identified by police as 30-year-old Solideen Sadaat Rann, who was subsequently located in New York.
Rann reportedly indicated that he’d be returning to Athens on Aug. 16, and police said they planned on charging him with felony aggravated cruelty to animals.
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