The McKamey Animal Center is trying to find the person or persons responsible for the abandonment and cruelty to this dog.A dog was found alive in a dumpster recently, and McKamey Animal Center is trying to find the person or persons responsible for the abandonment and cruelty to the animal.
A person found the dog while placing trash in a dumpster on the 7700 block of Nautical Way in Chattanooga, and saw that the dog had torn out of the bag it had been put inside. It was too weak to escape the dumpster, a release from the animal center said.
The dog, which the McKamey staff named Desiree, is a black and white adult pit bull and suffered from a broken leg, emaciation and a skin infection leaving open sores all over her body. The shelter believes the dog was left in the dumpster either Sunday or Monday and based on some tips it's received, believes the dog came from a residence on the same block it was left at.
The release said cruelty to animals is against the law, and the animal center is offering $500 leading to the arrest and conviction of the people involved.
The shelter asks the public to call it at 423-305-6500 extension 3 or leave an anonymous tip at 423-305-6500 or send an email to the director, Jamie McAloon at jmcaloon@mckameyanimalcenter.org.
"Clearly Desiree has been suffering for an extended period of time. She didn't get this way overnight," McAloon said in the release. "Our staff struggles with cases like this where it is obvious this animal has been in distress for weeks if not months and we ask the question - why didn't someone report her?"