Authorities Tuesday looked for a possible animal cruelty suspect who may be leaving foods that are toxic and often deadly to dogs on the streets of Pasadena.
Video shared by the office of Supervisor Kathryn Barger showed a person leaving chocolates and grapes as well as rice and noodles on Foothill Boulevard near a dog daycare and boarding shop called Dogtopia of East Pasadena
Grapes are known to cause kidney and renal failure while chocolates can lead to a heart attack, stroke or seizure.
Junior Hernandez, who trains dogs at at the Pasadena business, said the person in the video has been leaving out toxic foods, including M&Ms, to entice dogs for several months.
“It’s deliberate. It’s planned,” Hernadez said. “It looks like whenever he does do that, he’ll go up and down Foothill and do that to a bunch of locations where he knows there’s high traffic for people who …