Dallas police are on the lookout for a person who was caught on heartbreaking surveillance footage dumping a helpless dog on the side of a road.
Video from Dowdy Ferry Road in Southern Dallas — which is notorious for trash and animal dumping —showed a white Chevrolet SUV pull over around 6:45 p.m. Wednesday evening, in response to WFAA.
A person gets out and opens the back tailgate and lets a German Shepherd out, footage obtained by the outlet shows.
The person then jumps back into the automobile and begins to hurry away, with the confused pup chasing after him — narrowly missing being hit by one other vehicle traveling in the wrong way.
“That was an intentional dump and he didn’t need to be caught. And he didn’t want that dog and he made that clear,” Jeremy Boss, President of the Dowdy Ferry Animal Commission told WFAA.
Boss’ nonprofit has installed hidden cameras along the realm within the hopes of curbing animal and trash dumping.
“It makes me sick to my stomach after I see those that will take the time to take their dog, drive out here, and throw it out like trash like Dowdy Ferry is thought for,” Boss said.
Neighbors who witnessed the person dump the dog took the pooch in until Dallas Animal Services arrived late Wednesday night.
The dog had a minor injury on its leg, but was otherwise perfectly healthy, WFAA reported.
Dallas Police confirmed they’re trying to find the person within the video.
“Against the law like that is one in all people who’s so random that we’d like the general public’s help after they see something like, on this case, something suspicious, or they see an act like this going down,” Dallas Police Department spokesperson Brian Martinez told WFAA.
Animal dumping is taken into account a Class A misdemeanor.
“People who dump dogs, they don’t have any conscience,” added Boss. “Either that or they don’t have any brain. I don’t understand the logic in doing it.”
Based on WFAA, Boss’s cameras caught the same, unsolved incident in November, wherein a person in an SUV also left a German Shepherd by the side of Dowdy Ferry Road. The dog was hit and killed by a automobile the identical day.
Two years ago, the cameras caught a person pulling two puppies that had been clubbed to death out of his automobile and leaving them behind on the identical road.
The footage led to the conviction of Sebastian Acosta, who was sentenced to 6 years in prison for animal cruelty.
