KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 -- Twenty-eight dogs were rescued from a Bangkok house on July 27 where they had been locked up without food for days after their owner died from comorbidities.

Police reported that the dogs survived by eating the left leg of their owner, Attapol Charoenpithak, 62, whose body was discovered in his bedroom on the second floor of the house in the Khlong Sam Wa district, according to The Nation Thailand/Asia News Network as reported by The Star yesterday.

Attapol's neighbor, Sompong Phasuksri, 53, alerted police after noticing Attapol's car parked outside the house for about a week. Sompong told police that Attapol usually drove to a local market daily, and after getting no response from ringing the doorbell despite t...