A pair of dogs have been found abandoned in a cage in a Utah desert. On Monday, Feb. 24, Hurricane Animal Shelter shared in a Facebook post that the two dogs were found off of the 318 near Quail Lake with "no food or water" on Feb. 23.

Image via Hurricane Animal Shelter Authorities are searching for whoever abandoned two dogs. They left the poor pooches in a cage in the middle of a Utah desert, no less. It's clear that whoever left the animals intended for them to die.

A pair of dogs were left in a crate without food or water along a Utah roadway, officials said. A photo shows the large dogs abandoned inside a cage on a gravel parking area near a reservoir.