Authorities are trying to identify a woman who was captured by security cameras tossing seven newborn puppies into a dumpster in southern California.
The Riverside county Department of Animal Services released surveillance video of the woman pulling up to a dumpster behind an auto parts store in Coachella on Thursday afternoon.
The video showed her stepping out of a white Jeep and peering into a dumpster used for recyclables before dropping a plastic bag into the trash dumpster and driving away.
A man who rummaged through the trash shortly afterwards spotted the bag and took it to the store. Authorities said the puppies, believed to be three-day-old terrier mixes, may not have survived the 90F (32C) heat had they not been found within an hour of being dumped.