Abused Carrots Donated to Maine Animal Shelter

According to the Morning Sentinel, Somerset Humane Society in Skowhegan received three to four tons of carrots recently from a trucking company that wanted to get rid of them after a supermarket manager turned them away because some were bruised. Who knew carrots could get bruised?

The carrots were still edible and the trucking company didn't want to waste them.

Shelter Director, Hattie Spaulding, told the Morning Sentinel she's donated carrots to area food pantries and homeless shelters, the county jail, and offered them for 50 cents a bag to the public.

Most of the dogs and cats at the shelter showed no interest in carrots, but Spaulding said a local horse owner had offered to take some.

At the time of this post the shelter has announced they are in fact out of carrots.