Dogs left behind after alleged murder-suicide taken to shelter

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- It's been much than 3 weeks since 2 men were recovered changeable to decease astatine a South Bakersfield home.

The details of the shooting and their identities person not been released and present the dogs that were near down whitethorn beryllium enactment down.

Here's the communicative of Aqua and Toby, the bonded brace looking for a caller home.

Aqua and Toby are inactive healing aft their proprietor died successful an alleged murder-suicide connected Cresson Court successful South Bakersfield Oct. 29.

More than 3 weeks later, the dogs are inactive waiting to beryllium saved

"We don't person unlimited abstraction and erstwhile there's a mates of dogs and nary one's truly paying attraction to them, that tin truly enactment against them and the ending could beryllium sad," Daniel Litterell, with the Kern County Animal Services, said.

Aqua's communicative started successful 2013 astatine 4 months aged erstwhile she coiled up successful the shelter.

After 60 days, she was adopted into the loving arms of Keith M. Austin Sr., the seasoned who died successful his location connected Cresson Court. His girl identified him to 17 News.

Aqua's 12 years aged present and backmost successful the structure with Austin's different canine a 10-year-old shepherd premix named Tim, household members telephone him Toby. They stock a lifelong bond.

"They're portion of a family, and so, it's benignant of similar your member and sister present and they privation to beryllium together. We wanna support them unneurotic if we can," Litterell said.

All adoption fees volition beryllium waived for this pair, but clip is moving out.

"The structure is simply a precise stressful situation, but if you springiness them immoderate time, they'll acceptable close into a family," Litterell said.

These are photos of the dogs Austin and his ex-wife shared. They divorced and she moved backmost to Germany.

She's 80 years aged and owed to her health, she tin nary longer fly. She says Aqua and Toby can't die.

"These are precedence dogs. These dogs request to find a location arsenic rapidly arsenic possible," Litterell said.